Interdisciplinary research,
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in advanced digital media
UPDATE: Natalie Fenton's lecture at FCSH/UNL has been postponed due to travel disruptions.
The CloudViews 2010 conference will convene IT professionals, researchers, and service providers in the cloud computing field.
Sound and video artist Maile Colbert will discuss her work on 15 April, 2010, at FCT/UNL in Monte Caparica.
The International Symposium on Online Journalism is scheduled for April 23 and 24 at UT Austin and will also be webcast live.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Marta Ferraz focuses on The Emotive Brains Theory for her Ph.D. research. She is a CoLab student and creative director at Atomic Designers.
Jorge Figueira, Carla Mascarenhas, Alexandra Marques, Filipe Castro, and Raquel Luísa Santos de Jesus Sá spend the spring in Texas.
Isabel Cunha is on sabbatical in Austin for four months. Her research goals include, among other topics, a digital media bibliography and an analysis of the ways in which fiction products can promote digital literacy.
Three Portuguese artists presented a live remix of audio and video from the Future Places festival at a showcase during SXSW Interactive 2010 in Austin.
The ZON intensive Script Development Lab at UT Austin will offer advanced training in film scriptwriting, direction and production for ten students from Portuguese universities.
The UT Austin|Portugal Program will be represented at the education fair Futurália, March 10-13 at FIL, in Lisbon
António Câmara will discuss augmented reality in the lecture “Rosa Púrpura do Cairo ao Contrário” on Wednesday, February 24, in Auditorium II of FCSH/UNL (Av. De Berna 26) at 6pm. His talk will be the first in a new monthly lecture series at FCSH.
Dr. Derek Lackaff, an Austin-based postdoctoral fellow with the CoLab, will teach a semester-long graduate communication theory course in Porto this spring.
A research colloquium with Randolph Bias of the UT Austin School of Information.
With the support of the FCT, three technology managers from Portuguese universities are participating in professional internships at university technology offices in Texas.
UTEN Portugal opened its 2010 training program with two two-day workshops on capital sourcing for early-stage technology startups.
February 28, 2010, is the cut-off date to be considered in the next group of applicants to the ongoing call for Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Mathematics through the UT Austin|Portugal Program.