+LSI Newsletter Issue 6

Leonor Frias is a PhD student at the Software Department (LSI) at the UPC. She is working under Drs. Jordi Petit and Salvador Roura's supervision in the ALBCOM research group. Leonor is a enterprising, woman, lively, social and willing to learn and work. These abilities have been some of the reasons the committee of the Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2008 took into account when they selected Leonor Frias as one of the finalists of this important prize. A nice acknowledgement and a little step towards Google. (full version...)

Increasingly, technology is present in all spheres of everyday activity. One of these defines us as living beings and as humans: the ability and activity of learning. What happens when technology and learning are combined? Marc Alier talks about web-based learning environments, internet communities, open source software and e-learning. (full version...)

Dr. Christian Blum from the research group ALBCOM at the Software Department (LSI) was recently awarded the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award for the article "Search bias in ant colony optimization: On the role of competition-balanced systems". This prestigious prize is the result of years' research on swarm intelligence inspired by ant colonies. Christian looks for inspiration in nature to abstract the main ideas behind processes, and then translates them into computational language in order to solve optimization problems. (full version...)

The Modelling and Processing Information Research Group (MPI) works on conceptual modelling and information systems design, validation of data schemas and data systems as well as updating and information processing. It is an officially recognised group by la Generalitat de Catalunya, led by Dr. Ernest Teniente. MPI is based on two powerful subgroups: FOLRE also led by Dr. Ernest Teniente and the group on Conceptual Modelling (GMC) led by Dr. Antoni Olivé. Research from both groups deeply feel the need to develop something that of high quality and useful for society. They do so by developing sound theoretical and technological research with a clear practical application. (full version...)

Dr. Xavier Perez of the ALBCOM research group is packing up towards Canada. He was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) that will allow him to do research with Dr. Nick Worlmald at Waterloo University for the next two years. Dr. Perez does research on geometric random graphs. He is a passionate fan of mathematical subtlety. (full version...)

Update

Visitors

Who is visiting us this month. (full version...)

PhD Thesis

Announcements of the last step towards the PhD. (full version...)  

Pointers to events organized by LSI members. (full version...)

Credits

Contact:          Irene Lapuente

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