CISTER researcher Mário Alves participated in the official presentation "100 segundos de ciência" (100 seconds of science), a joint venture between RTP, FCT and the Portuguese Commission of UNESCO.

"100 segundos de ciência" is a series of short programs with each program addressing cutting edge scientific research that is "Made in Portugal". It has started with 10 different episodes which were shown on RTP2 (Portuguese television) from the 22nd April. The idea is to disseminate science in a straightforward way, giving special emphasis to the practical results, applications and usefulness for the general public, aiming to close the gap between the scientific community and general society. One of the 10 programs included reports on the work done at CISTER on wireless sensors networks and applications, particularly the work driven from the EMMON project (which was led by Critical Software) and also included some reports on the ongoing work under the SENODS project (with Portugal Telecom). The programs have been broadcast on RTP2 and will soon be repeated on RTP1, RTP International (with subtitles) and RTP Africa.

They are now available on-line at http://media.rtp.pt/blogs/cienciaeambiente/

The Minister of Science and Education, the President of FCT and the President of the National Commission of UNESCO were also present at this event, among other invited participants.

The International Real-Time Ada Workshop (IRTAW) is an invitation-based forum for exploring issues with real-time system support in the Ada programming language and for exploring possible approaches and solutions. The IRTAW meetings are the principal forum that contributes to the evolution of the Ada standard in issues concerning real-time, concurrency and high-integrity, being based on discussions and working sessions, instead of paper presentations. CISTER hosted the 12th edition of the workshop during 2003.

The 16th edition of the workshop (IRTAW 2013) took place in York, UK, April 16-19, with one of the main topics the current proposal to extend the Ada language with parallel programming constructs. The central discussion was based on a joint proposal between CISTER researcher Miguel Pinho and industrial experts from Canada.

Due to the importance which was given to the topic, a full day of workshop discussion was around this topic. This two-part "Parallel and Muticore Models" session was also chaired by Miguel Pinho.

Further info is available at: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~andy/IRTAW2013/

CISTER Researchers Nuno Pereira, Eduardo Tovar and Luis Miguel Pinho participated on the 23rd and 24th of April in Brussels and Leuven in various meetings related to four new very relevant Artemis/FP7 project proposals, including two AIPP (Artemis Innovation Pilot Project) to be submitted early June in the Artemis Call 2013. CISTER has been actively involved in this call since the end of 2012 and has already participated in dozens of working meetings, both remote and physical meetings, in relation to these projects. One of the key efforts CISTER has placed has been towards helping to foster the involvement of Portuguese industrial players with the ambition of further contributing to the creation of impact by Portuguese teams involving industry and academia.

Further info is available at: http://www.artemis-ju.eu/call2013