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April 2008
José Manuel Neto Vieira recently visited Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus. One of the highlights of Vieira's visit is a talk he presented titled, “Compressed Sensing and Digital Fountains.” The talk was on April 15, 2008. Vieira is a faculty member with the Instituto de Engenharia Electrónica e Telemática de Aveiro and the Departamento de Electrónica, Telecomunicações e Informática at the University of Aveiro.
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March 2008
Professor João Barros will be visiting Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus the week of March 24. One of the highlights of Barros’ visit is a talk he will be presenting titled “Distributed Sensing: Fundamental Limits and Scalable Solutions.” The talk will be on March 25, 200, at 4:30, Porter Hall room B34 on the Carnegie Mellon campus.
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March 2008
Professor Miguel Raul Dias Rodrigues will be visiting Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus on March 24 and 25. One of the highlights of Rodrigues’ visit is a talk he will be presenting titled, “Optimum Power Allocation for MIMO Systems with Arbitrary Inputs: An Information/Estimation Theoretic Approach.” The talk will be on March 24, 2008, from 4:30 – 5:30, Porter Hall room B34 on the Carnegie Mellon campus.
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February 2008
Joining Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus this semester are four graduate students in the dual degree Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program in conjunction with the University of Coimbra in Portugal. All four students have strong engineering backgrounds and broad interests in cultural immersion.
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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 Carnegie Mellon's Information and Communication Technologies Institute (ICTI) Portugal partnership program.
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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)
July 2007
Carnegie Mellon University
and the University of
Madeira in Portugal will launch a joint program this
fall for a dual
master's degree in human-computer interaction that
will involve course work on both sides of the Atlantic
Ocean.
The 16-month program is sponsored by the regional government
of Madeira. It will include a semester of core courses
at Carnegie Mellon's
Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in the
fall, followed by 12 months of further course work and
a capstone project course at the University
of Madeira. The capstone project involves an interdisciplinary
team of students working under the guidance of an industrial
or organizational sponsor to produce a prototype product
or service and is a key component in the Master
of Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) program.
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Carnegie Mellon's press release
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)
For media questions about ICTI, contact: Chriss
Swaney, Carnegie Mellon CIT Media Relations, (412)
268-5776.
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Carnegie Mellon's press release
Read more ICTI press
coverage in Carnegie Mellon's The Piper news
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ICTI News

> José Vieira talks at Carnegie Melon April 15

> João Barros talks at Carnegie Melon March 25

> Miguel Rodrigues talks at Carnegie Melon March 24

> ICTI program and faculty featured in several Portuguese publications. Read more.

> Novabase ad promotes MSE program with scholarships and careers for graduates. Read
more.

> MSE Faculty Profile: Paulo Marques, University of Coimbra

> View ICTI advertisement placed in November 2007 edition of IEEE Spectrum.

> ECE Professor José
M. F. Moura directs the ICTI program at Carnegie Mellon.
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more.
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