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March UTEN Workshop on University Spin-Outs and Venture Creation

In March 2010, 22 technology transfer professionals attended a UTEN workshop at the New University of Lisbon.


16 Apr 2010
Digital Media PhD Student Monica Mendes in Austin for SXSW 2010

Monica Mendes describes her experiences.


16 Apr 2010
Bruce Pennycook Presented at Gear Up: Sound and Interactive Media

Pennycook presented on the first day. The event took place in Portugal April 7-12, 2010.


15 Apr 2010
Kathleen Tyner Provided Keynote Speech at the 2nd International Conference on Serious Games

Kathleen Tyner presented An Array of Play: Games for Living and Learning at VS Games 2010.


15 Apr 2010
Andrew Garrison Co-Taught Documentary and Sound Courses in Portugal

In March 2010, Andrew Garrison co-taught documentary and sound courses at the University of Porto.


15 Apr 2010
Mathematics Collaboration Between UT Austin and U.Coimbra

Professors from The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Coimbra collaborate in the mathematics section of the UT Austin | Portugal program.


15 Apr 2010
Applications open for 2010 International School on Digital Transformation

ISDT is an annual intensive program on the democratic transformation of society through digital media.  ISDT 2010 will be held July 25-30 in Porto, Portugal.


7 Apr 2010
Viagem a Portugal: contemporary Portuguese cinema from the Austin Film Society

From April 13 through May 11, 2010, the Austin Film Society will show a series of six films from Portugal.


5 Apr 2010
Cardiovascular Imaging, Modeling, and Simulation

Project SIMCARD involves large-scale computer simulations and a close connection between mathematics, scientific computing, and clinical experiments, to work on medical imaging and numerical simulations of complex bioengineering problems.


2 Apr 2010
Behind Steve Mims’ short film “Honorarium”

UT Austin filmmaker and ZON Script Development Lab instructor Steve Mims creates gripping movies with a new generation of low-cost equipment.


2 Apr 2010
Natalie Fenton on New Media, Journalism and Democracy

UPDATE: Natalie Fenton's lecture at FCSH/UNL has been postponed due to travel disruptions.


1 Apr 2010
CloudViews cloud computing conference in Porto 20-21 May, 2010

The CloudViews 2010 conference will convene IT professionals, researchers, and service providers in the cloud computing field.


1 Apr 2010
Seminar with multimedia artist Maile Colbert

Sound and video artist Maile Colbert will discuss her work on 15 April, 2010, at FCT/UNL in Monte Caparica.


1 Apr 2010
Register Now for the 2010 Online Journalism Symposium

The International Symposium on Online Journalism is scheduled for April 23 and 24 at UT Austin and will also be webcast live.


1 Apr 2010
UT Visualization Laboratory to host digital artists on Thursday, April 29

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the UT Department of Art & Art History and the Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) will present an evening of photography and video works by Austin artists.


1 Apr 2010
Diogo Telmo Neves – PhD Thesis: “Separation of Concerns in Advanced Computing”

Diogo's goal is to develop a new set of programming constructs that promote a stronger separation of concerns in parallel computing. He wants to hide the complexity of parallel programming from programmers and identify the concerns that can be specified as separate modules.


1 Apr 2010
Tomás Henriques wins prize in musical instrument design

CoLab researcher Tomás Henriques has won the 2010 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for his Double Slide Controller, an electronic instrument featuring two slides inspired by the trombone.


25 Mar 2010
Call opens for postdoctoral position in computational biomathematics at CEMAT, IST

In collaboration with the UT Austin|Portugal program, a call has been announced for a postdoctoral fellowship to focus on the computational modeling of cerebral aneurysm progression. The application deadline is April 30, 2010.


18 Mar 2010
Virtual Playgrounds: Holistic Technology for Children

Marta Ferraz focuses on The Emotive Brains Theory for her Ph.D. research. She is a CoLab student and creative director at Atomic Designers.


15 Mar 2010
Spring in Texas: Five UTEN Interns

Jorge Figueira, Carla Mascarenhas, Alexandra Marques, Filipe Castro, and Raquel Luísa Santos de Jesus Sá spend the spring in Texas.


15 Mar 2010

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