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Published in 04, Oct

PhD Workshop’24

The PhD Workshop’24 of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science from NOVA FCT took place on October 2nd. In this workshop the PhD students had the opportunity to share their research with all NOVA FCT community, and in particular with professors and younger students from the Master Program in Computer Science and Engineering.

Published in 26, Sep

Multimodal Systems collaborates with the Portuguese Navy in Multimodal Dialog AI Systems

NOVA researchers participated in the REPMUS exercise organized by the Portuguese Navy with the participation of NATO. The NOVA LINCS Multimodal Systems team created an AI assistant for the Navy to process complex tasks and critical information. The system was demonstrated to the Portuguese President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Admiral Gouveia […]

Published in 24, Sep

The science behind Amazon Alexa TaskBot TWIZ: 4 publications at top NLP conferences

The AlexaTaskBot TWIZ team is having lots of fun publishing the research results of our journey: 4 papers at ACL2024,EMNLP2024 and EACL2024 conferences so far. The first article describes our research towards PlanLLM@EACL2024, a model that can ground its behavior on a step-by-step plan of instructions. It was the first of such models that paved […]

Published in 13, Sep

NOVA LINCS Receives Google Gift to research Drone Video AI Agent for Natural Disasters and Climate Change

Prof. João Magalhães, coordinator of the Multimodal Systems Group, received a Google Gift to research Vision and Language AI models to analyze videos obtained by Drones in scenarios of natural disasters and climate change. Drone-mounted cameras opened a multitude of applications across a wide range of fields. They enable analysis over vast territories, facilitating comprehensive […]

Published in 12, Aug

Multimodal Systems and Google Researchers present a novel Generative AI algorithm at ACL2024

Researchers of the Multimodal Systems group and Google proposed a new Generative AI algorithm to synthesize coherent sequences of images representing manual tasks, such as DYI, cooking. The key goal is to make Generative-AI capable of handling inputs that sequences of instructions. This is a step change in relation to the state of the art […]

Published in 07, Jun

NOVA LINCS PhD student, Ricardo Veiga, selected for the Future Talent Programme’s Lightning Talk Challenge

Ricardo Veiga, PhD student supervised by NOVA LINCS researcher João Rodrigues at the University of the Algarve, has been selected for The Future Talent Programme’s Lightning Talk Challenge (FTP24), promoted by the GÉANT Network, that interconnects Europe’s national research and education networks. The GÉANT Future Talent Programme’s Lightning Talk Challenge offers students and young professionals […]

Published in 22, May

GlórIA: the new Portuguese-European Large Language Model

GlórIA is the new Portuguese LLM, developed at the NOVA LINCS Multimodal Systems Group. GlórIA is a PT-PT top-performing LLM, capable of generating high-quality texts on a multitude of topics, such as History, Environment, Culinary, and many more. Led by Prof. David Semedo and together with Ricardo Lopes and Prof. João Magalhães, the team has […]

Published in 21, May

NOVA LINCS PhD student, Diogo Lavado, distinguished by REN and Fraunhofer Portugal

Diogo Lavado, NOVA LINCS PhD student, was distinguished by REN Award and the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge Master Thesis Award, for his master thesis “Detection of Power Line Supporting Towers Via Interpretable Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds”. His thesis aims to contribute to improving the inspection and maintenance work of power transmission networks. The innovative […]

Published in 21, May

João Leite elected Vice-President of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence

The PI of NOVA LINCS Intelligent Systems Group, João Leite, was elected to the position of Vice-President of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA) for the 2024-2025 biennium. The Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), founded in 1984, aims to promote research, teaching, and dissemination of artificial intelligence as a scientific domain. APPIA is […]

Published in 09, Oct

NOVA LINCS’s TWIZ team earn first place in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2

The team led by João Magalhães, NOVA LINCS researcher from Multimodal Systems Group and Professor at the Department of Computer Science at NOVA School of Science and Technology, ranked first place among the 10 international research groups selected by Amazon to participate in the Alexa Taskbot research challenge.

Published in 07, Jun

NOVA LINCS team is among the five finalists selected for Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2

For the second year in a row, the TWIZ team, supervised by the NOVA LINCS researcher João Magalhães is among the top 5 finalists in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge to advance Conversational AI.

Published in 16, Feb

NOVA LINCS is among the 10 research labs selected by Amazon for Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2

The TWIZ team, supervised by the NOVA LINCS researcher João Magalhães, is among the 10 teams around the globe selected by Amazon to participate in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2, a university challenge focused on developing multimodal (voice and vision) conversational agents that assist customers in completing tasks requiring multiple steps and decisions.

Published in 10, Feb

World Logic Day | Talks at NOVA LINCS

To celebrate the World Logic Day, NOVA LINCS will host two talks: "Logic, Computation, and Programming Languages" by Luís Caires and "Logic-based Explanations for Neural Networks" by João Leite.

Published in 22, Dec

iFetch results presented at CMU Portugal Summit 2022

The results of the project iFetch (Multimodal conversational agents for the online fashion Marketplace) were presented at CMU Portugal Summit 2022 New Frontiers in tech. João Magalhães, NOVA LINCS researcher from Multimodal Systems Group, gave the project presentation, with a summary of the major findings achieved by the research team at NOVA Laboratory for Computer […]

Published in 09, Nov

NOVA LINCS researchers receive Best Paper Award at ICGI 2022

Ana Rita Rebelo, PhD student at NOVA, and her supervisor, NOVA LINCS Multimodal Systems researcher Rui Nóbrega, were awarded the best paper award at the 2022 edition of the International Conference on Graphics and Interaction (ICGI 2022) for their paper entitled Tangible Objects in Virtual Reality for Visuo-Haptic Feedback. Including tangible objects in Virtual Reality […]

Published in 21, Sep

NOVA LINCS researchers receive Best Paper Award at INFORUM 2022

João Geraldo, student of the Integrated Master in Computer Science at NOVA, and his supervisor, NOVA LINCS Software Systems researcher Bernardo Toninho, were awarded the best paper award at the 13th edition of Simpósio de Informática (INFORUM 2022), for their paper entitled Making Session Types Go. The work introduces a compiler for a programming language […]

Published in 14, Sep

NOVA LINCS leads a research project with 7 million euros funding through the Horizon Europe programme

TaRDIS (Trustworthy and Resilient Decentralised Intelligence for Edge Systems), a project coordinated by Carla Ferreira, a researcher from NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics FCT NOVA, gathers experts in the areas of programming languages, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, among others, “thus reaching all the pillars of knowledge in the scientific area of informatics”. With […]

Published in 18, Jul

NOVA LINCS Ciência Viva Internship Program

NOVA LINCS and DI FCT NOVA offered an internship program for 9th grade students about basics of Informatics and Computer Science.

Published in 27, Jun

Luis Caires elected Chair of the Steering Committee of ESOP

ESOP is the most prestigious Conference on the broad field of programming languages and systems, and is a member of European Joint Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS).

Published in 24, Jun

How current AI language models actually work?

Luis Caires, NOVA LINCS Director and coordinator of the Software Systems Group, discusses the recent Google AI sentience issue, and explains in simple terms how current AI language models actually work, and why we are still far from the Singularity.

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