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Foodbar project receives IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award

The foodbar project has received the Shared University Research (SUR) Award from IBM. This award consists of monetary, cloud and equipment support to promote research and innovation in strategic areas of mutual interest between IBM and the awarded institutions.

DeustoTech-Internet has developed a first prototype of foodbar in a joint collaboration with Symbiolab and the support of IBM. The aim of the project is to create a social network around the basque miniature cuisine. To that end, the latest mobile, cloud and cognitive technologies have been used.

Rubén Mulero & Unai López assisted to the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2017)

Rubén Mulero and Unai López participated in the “14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing" (UIC 2017) held in San Francisco (USA) from August 4th to 8th, 2017.

Rubén Mulero presented the work: "Linked Open Data Management in Ambient Assisted Cities" and Unai Lopez presented the work: "Citizenpedia: A Human Computation Framework for the e-Government Domain".

4th Simpatico General Assembly in Santiago de Compostela

On the 6th and 7th of February, the Deustotech-Internet team represented by Unai Lopez, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Iván Pretel and Enrique Sanz attended the 4rd plenary meeting of the Simpatico project in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The achieved goals were presented and component demos analysed. Furthermore, the consortium invited the three associations involved in the GALICIA pilot: ATEGAL, FEGAUS and COGAMI. Special thanks to Xunta and them for their great engagement and contributions.

MORElab receives a NVIDIA GPU Grant

We would like to thank NVIDIA for the GPU donated to our research group via the academic GPU seeding program. The donated hardware will be used to train deep neural networks for the analysis of the political discourse, allowing us to shorten the training times of the neural networks.

Simpatico General Assembly in Palermo Italy

On the 4th, 6th and 7th of October, the Deustotech-Internet team represented by Unai Lopez, Iván Pretel and Diego López-de-Ipiña attended the 3rd plenary meeting of the Simpatico project (http://www.simpatico-project.eu/) in Palermo, Italy. The meeting was held at the Engineering offices. The integration among all the components of the project was discussed, the achieved goals presented and the organisation for future activities consolidated. Phase 2, we are ready!

Kick-off meeting for the SIMPATICO project in Trento

On the 8th and 9th of March, the Deustotech-Internet team represented by Iván Pretel, Unai Lopez and Diego López-de-Ipiña attended the kick-off meeting of the SIMPATICO project in Trento, Italy. The meeting was organized in the headquarters of FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler). The discussions focused on the organization of the work packages and the deployments in Trento, Sheffield and Galicia.