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Vieira talks at Carnegie Mellon April 15
"Compressed Sensing and Digital Fountains"

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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Barros talks at Carnegie Mellon March 25
"Distributed Sensing: Fundamental Limits and Scalable Solutions"

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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Rodrigues talks at Carnegie Mellon March 24
"Optimum Power Allocation for MIMO Systems with Arbitrary Inputs"

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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MSE Coimbra Student Profiles: New Faces on Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh Campus
Coimbra MSE students in Pittsburgh for Spring 2007 semester

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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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 Carnegie Mellon's Information and Communication Technologies Institute (ICTI) Portugal partnership program.

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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.

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Carnegie Mellon, University of Madeira Offer Dual Degree Master's Program in Human-Computer Interaction

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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Portugal and Carnegie Mellon launch ICTI, major collaboration

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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ICTI News

José Manuel Neto Vieira
> José Vieira talks at Carnegie Melon April 15

João Barros
> João Barros talks at Carnegie Melon March 25

Miguel Rodrigues
> Miguel Rodrigues talks at Carnegie Melon March 24

Pradeep Khosla

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


Novabase ad in Expresso

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


Paulo Marques

> MSE Faculty Profile: Paulo Marques, University of Coimbra

 

ICTI ad in IEEE Spectrum, November 2007

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

 

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

 

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