David Brumley with students from Minho University

David Brumley on the Future of Cyber-Autonomy

In light of the Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Embassy brought to Portugal Dr. David Brumley for a series of lectures on “The Future of Cyber-autonomy.”  Dr. David Brumley is a full professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the CEO and co-founder of ForAllSecure, a company creating cybersecurity tools that automatically find and fix software vulnerabilities.  An expert ... Read More»

By | 12 October, 2018 | Categories: Events, News | Tags: ,

Paradiso and Brian Cabral

Two American speakers, two topics: video capture and augmented human interaction

Brian Cabral, Director of Engineering at Facebook and a specialist in computational photography, computer vision and computer graphics, visited Portugal for a series of presentations at the Embassy’s American Corners. The visit included sessions at Nova University’s Faculty of Science and Technology, Technical Institute and the University of Aveiro . Mr. Cabral discussed his ongoing work on the Facebook Surround ... Read More»

By | 5 May, 2017 | Categories: Events, News | Tags: ,

Dan Costa, second from right, at IST Lisbon

Editor-in-chief of PCMag.com visits Portugal

Dan Costa, editor in chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff-Davis, participated in a series of talks on new journalism, big data, and smart homes.  Mr. Costa believes that the information circulating on social networks and via a person’s digital “finger print” creates various ethical, informational and privacy issues. Mr. Costa discussed ... Read More»

By | 7 October, 2016 | Categories: Events, News | Tags:

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