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um quotidiano / an everyday is a participatory mobile photography project, carried out during the artist residency of Cláudio Reis (U. Porto), at arts venue Av. Espaço Montepio, Porto, Portugal, organized by Porto Lazer, from March 30th to May 7th.

Following an intense preparation period at the IC2 Institute, the Portuguese company EyeSee Solutions, one of the Business Development companies selected through UTEN’s Global Startup Program 2015 Call, won the first SXAméricas Startup Pitch Competition, at SXSW.

This workshop aims to foster discussions about how digital media is reconfiguring the scenarios in which quality of life can be promoted in different domains.

The workshop gathered all UT Austin | Portugal program academic areas: Advanced Computing, Digital Media, Emerging Technologies and Mathematics, aiming at fostering the collaboration between the areas.

On February 24th, at 12:00 pm, James Sham (UT Austin) will be giving a lecture entitled “Creating collaboration between artists and scientists / engineers”, as part of the 5th Emerging Technologies workshop that will gather all UT Austin | Portugal program academic areas (Advanced Computing, Digital Media, Emerging Technologies and Mathematics).

Professor Rui L. Reis, Vice Rector of the University of Minho, was elected to the (United States) National Academy of Engineering (NAE). 

On 15 February, at 2:30 pm, Dr. Brian A. Korgel, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, will be giving a lecture entitled "Innovation Arts and the Conception of Rapid Pivot Design", focusing on the interconnection of Emerging Technologies with the Arts.

Creative Colab ’16, an iniciative by students of the Digital Media Doctoral Program, is an invitation to explore and discuss various perspectives on digital media, drawn from the intersections between creativity and collaboration.

The UT Austin|Portugal Program has released two comprehensive reports covering its activities for the period 2013-2015.

The school will deliver a mix of lectures, case study presentations and hands-on session in the domain of large scale data analytics with emphasis on the analysis of graphs/networks

The Luso-American Foundation in collaboration with the National Science Foundation announces the Call for Proposals “2015 PORTUGAL – U.S. Research Networks Program”.

Within the activities of the UT Austin | Portugal CoLab Program in Advanced Computing IST will hold an Autumn School (November 9-13, 2015) on Data Driven Computations in the Life Sciences and a one day Workshop (November 12, 2015) on Innovative Modeling Techniques for Predictive Medicine.

Resultados de Concurso 2015 para atribuição de Bolsas de Doutoramento em Media Digitais.

Bernhard Rieder, associate professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher with the Digital Methods Initiative will be conducting a Workshop and a Lecture on Analyzing Social Media with Digital Methods, at FCSH/NOVA, October 21st.

On Friday, October 9, BILAT USA 2.0 will hold a free workshop in Lisbon on US research funding opportunities available EU researchers.

In September, researchers from UT Austin and several Portuguese universities met in Austin to foster collaboration in Emerging Technologies.

It is already possible to navigate through all the festival's programme in www.plunc.pt. All the information about the artists and activities, including times and locations. 

Lisbon, September 6, 2015 - We invite doctoral and senior undergraduate/master's students to participate in the Portugal | UT Austin Summer School in distributed computing. 

On its 8th consecutive edition, FUTUREPLACES will welcome researchers, citizens and creatives into a melting pot of possibilities for socio-cultural betterment. All in Porto, October 20 to 24: activities are free and registration happens on the spot.