ICTI in the Portuguese News

Faculty positions in IST ECE  

May 2008
Under the framework of the CMU-Portugal program, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) is hiring Assistant Professors. These faculty may lecture both in the PhD or the undergraduate programs of the department, and will be integrated in the teams involved in the research initiatives of the CMU-Portugal program. Deadline for application is May 13th 2008 to start in September 2008. Check http://cmuportugal-ece.ist.utl.pt/jobs for details.

RTP2 Features Aveiro’s Joint Graduate Programs with Carnegie Mellon  

April 2008
Portugal's channel RTP2 recently broadcast a story about University of Aveiro’s joint masters and doctoral graduate programs that are offered in partnership with Carnegie Mellon. (View our academic programs page for more details.) Aveiro offers a Master of Science in Information Networking, in conjuction with Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute, and doctoral programs in Computer Science and in Electrical and Computer Engineering, also in conjuction with the respective departments at Carnegie Mellon. Featured in this video are interviews with Aveiro Professors Rui Aguiar and Nuno Borges Carvalho, and interviews with masters students Ricardo Caetano and Fábio Ferreira. Also featured are shots of the campus and in particular, Aveiro’s technoligically-equipped facilities for the graduate programs. Click to read a summary of the students’ and faculty members’ comments.

This program is in Portuguese.

Radio Renascença Interviews Professor José Moura 

April 2008
Professor José M. F. Moura, Director of the Information and Communication Technologies Institute, is interviewed by journalist Pedro Frazao from Lisboa's Radio Renascença. Moura discusses the Carnegie Mellon|Portugal program with Frazao when the reporter visited Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh Pennsylvania campus in the fall of 2007. This interview is in Portuguese and aired April 9, 2008.

View a PDF of the interview with a summary (PDF, 300K)

Read the interview on Radio Renascença's website

ICTI ads run in several Portuguese newspapers 

March 2008
Several major Portuguese newspapers, including Diário Económico, Jornal de Negócios, Público, and Expresso, ran ads on the graduate ICTI programs. The ads briefly point out the programs features (dual degrees between Carnegie Mellon and the respective Portuguese universities), and include links and application deadlines for its four professional masters programs: Information Networking, Software Engineering, Information Technology, and Human-Computer Interaction.

View a copy of the ad in Portuguese (PDF)

Daily Portuguese Business Newspaper Diário Económico Cites ICTI Program 

March 2008
The Portuguese daily business newspaper Diário Económico again cited the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal program's masters programs: "The Carnegie Mellon | Portugal program supports, the second year in a row, the professional masters of Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with the Universities from Lisbon, Coimbra, Aveiro, and Madeira."

Read the story in Portuguese (PDF)

Daily Portuguese Business Newspaper Diário Económico Profiles ICTI Program
Features interview with Pradeep Khosla 

February 2008
The Portuguese daily business newspaper Diário Económico published a profile of the ICTI program featuring an interview with Dean Pradeep Khosla, head of Carnegie Mellon Engineering, in its February 26, 2008 edition. Khosla discusses the complex challenges and rich rewards of developing an international academic and research collaboration that spans multiple disciplines and international campuses.

Read the story in Portuguese (PDF)

Weekly Portuguese Newspaper Sol Profiles ICTI Program
Features interviews with Vitor Barroso and Nuno Seixas  

February 2008
The Portuguese weekly newspaper Sol published a story on the ICTI program in its February 23, 2008 edition. The article profiles Victor Barroso, who directs the ICTI program in Portugal, and Nuno Seixas, an ICTI student in the Master of Software Engineering Program at the University of Coimbra who is currently studying at Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus. Seixas is a software developer at PT (Portugal Telecom)-Inovação, one of ICTI's corporate partners, where he works in the Healthcare Information Systems business area.

Read more in English, with a link to the original story in Portuguese (PDF)

Scholarships Available for Master of Software Engineering Students with Guaranteed Jobs at Major Portuguese IT Firms
Portuguese IT Corporations Invest In MSE Program, Students’ Futures

February 2008
Led by Novabase, a group of eight major European IT firms are offering full scholarships to qualified students in Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Software Engineering program, one of the programs in the university’s Information and Communication Technologies Institute (ICTI) Portugal partnership program.

Read the story on our website (with links to original Portuguese text and video)

Portugal and Carnegie Mellon launch ICTI, major collaboration

October 2006

Carnegie Mellon University and the Portuguese government, through its Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, today announced plans to enter into a long-term collaboration to significantly expand research and education in the area of information and communication technologies. This collaboration will include an emphasis on information processing and networking, including applications to critical infrastructures and risk assessment, as well as complementary areas of applied mathematics, technology, innovation and policy.

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Read the Portuguese government's press release (in English)