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We are pleased to announce that Carlos Duarte, leader of the Inclusive Human-Computer Interaction at LASIGE, has been appointed as an expert to the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Digital Inclusion and Accessibility track for virtual worlds and the citiverse. This important initiative brings together international experts to address critical challenges in making emerging virtual environments […]

World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, by the United Nations (UN), is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille, a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols, as a means of communication in the full realization of […]

2025 is coming and we expect it to be promising! We are grateful to have you, our collaborators and partners in the academic community, our funders, suppliers and families in our valuable network, because we want to continue to pursue excellence in our research and have a positive and creative impact on the global community. […]

LASIGE is very proud and honored to congratulate its seven recent PhD graduates: Diogo Lima, “A Geographical-Aware State Deployment Service for Fog Computing”, supervised by Hugo Miranda; Diogo Soares, “Triclustering Three-way Temporal and Heterogeneous Data: Targeting Predictive and Descriptive Tasks for Biomedical Applications”, supervised by Sara C. Madeira and Rui Henriques (Inesc-ID); Fernando Alves, “OSINT-Based […]

Alysson Bessani, integrated member and director of LASIGE, was invited to speak at OPODIS 2024, the Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems and one of the top three in the area of distributed algorithms, which took place from 11 to 13 December 2024 in Lucca, Italy. His talk was entitled: “The Power of Simplicity on […]

The paper Chasing Lightspeed Consensus: Fast Wide-Area Byzantine Replication with Mercury authored by LASIGE integrated members Alysson Bessani and Vinicius Cogo was awarded at the ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference 2024 in the beginning of December, 2024, at Hong Kong, China. The paper, co-authored by Lívio Rodrigues (an ex-LASIGE researcher) and two researchers from Universities of Pasau […]