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Data Privacy Day
On January 28 will be celebrated the annual Data Privacy Day, the date on which the Council of Europe’s data protection convention, known as “Convention 108”, was opened for signature, to generate awareness about the importance of data privacy and highlight ways to safeguard personal information. People´s personal data are being processed every second – […]

International Day of Education 2023
The year 2023 marks the mid-point since the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for people, planet, and prosperity, with a set of 17 interlocked goals that will come up for review at the SDG Summit on the theme of investing in people Education must be prioritized to accelerate progress towards all the SDGs against the […]

Diogo Azevedo and André Souto publish at Sensors
The paper “Zgli: A Pipeline for Clustering by Compression with Application to Patient Stratification in Spondyloarthritis”, authored by Diogo Azevedo, LASIGE MSc Student, and LASIGE’s integrated researcher André Souto has been published in Sensors, a top-ranked journal (h5 index: 145). The paper co-authors are Ana Maria Rodrigues and Helena Canhão (EpiDoC Unit, The Chronic Diseases […]

LASIGE @ HiPEAC 2023
António Casimiro, integrated member of LASIGE, participated in HiPEAC 2023, which took place in Toulouse, France, from 16 to 18 January. HiPEAC is a European network of almost 2000 researchers in the high-performance computing and cyber-physical systems areas, and this year the annual conference attracted nearly 600 participants. António Casimiro participated as a representative and […]

Sara Silva publishes a book at Springer
Sara Silva, LASIGE integrated member, published a book entitled “Lectures on Intelligent Systems”, co-authored with Leonardo Vanneschi, LASIGE former member, at Springer. This textbook provides the reader with an essential understanding of computational methods for intelligent systems. These are defined as systems that can solve problems autonomously, particularly problems where algorithmic solutions are inconceivable for […]

WORLD LOGIC DAY
On January 14 it will be celebrated World Logic Day. Ms. Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, expressed “At the dawn of this new decade – indeed, now more than ever – the discipline of logic is utterly vital to our societies and economies. Computer science and digital technology, which provide the structure for today’s ways […]