Event News

MIT's Endicott House

Leaders of the MIT Portugal Program from MIT and Portugal will meet Friday February 8 for the program’s Operating Committee meeting at Endicott House, the event and conference center for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program representatives and academics from Portugal will then meet the following day, February 9, for a special meeting to focus on specific aspects of the program, including educational program experiences, recruitment, and working with industry.

The focus area leads and representatives for each of the program’s four focus areas, bioengineering systems, engineering design and advanced manufacturing, sustainable energy systems and transportation systems, will be in attendance at these meetings. Also several high-level academic officials from the schools involved in the program plan to attend.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) will hold its annual MIT Europe Conference in Lisbon March 26-27, 2008. The MIT Portugal Program, in conjunction with the Luso-American Foundation (FLAD),  will host the conference, which will be held at the Four Seasons-Ritz Lisbon.

New Lisbon University-- Portuguese company YDreams has invited Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Center for Bits and Atoms to give a talk at the Faculty of Science and Technology, at the New Lisbon University, on the 27th of November at 14:30.

The event is facilitated by the MIT Portugal Program, an international education and research collaboration involving seven PortugueseUniversities, Portuguese industry and MIT. This event is designed to foster further collaboration and raise awareness about the Fab Labs program.

Lecturing on “Beyond the Digital Revolution”, Neil Gershenfeld, selected as a Time/CNN/Fortune “Principal Voice” and one of the top 100 public intellectuals around today, will present recent advances and new forms of exploring scientific investigation in areas such as Quantum computation and personal fabrication. Gershenfeld will also be focusing on work developed through Fab Labs (Fabrication Labs), part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation.

The Fab Lab program has strong connections with the technical outreach activities of a number of partner organizations, around the emerging possibility for ordinary people to not just learn about science and engineering but actually design machines and make measurements that are relevant to improving the quality of their lives. The program is underway in countries that include Costa Rica, Norway, India, Ghana and South Africa.

The lecture will start at 14:30 in the Grande Auditório at the NewLisbonUniversity Campus in Monte da Caparica. The initiative is sponsored by the Luso-American Foundation and the NewLisbonUniversity’s Faculty of Science and Technology.

The MIT Portugal - Transportation Systems Program will organize a workshop on Intelligent Transport Systems, on the 22nd and 23rd of October 2007 at the 'Holiday Inn Lisboa Hotel' and IST Campus in Alameda, Lisbon.

The Workshop will have the participation of professors and researchers from MIT, IST, FEUP e FCTUC, as well as industry partners (click here for the final program). You are welcome to participate on the workshop for free, but a registration e-mail must be sent to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it until 15th October.

To view the program, click here: http://www.civil.ist.utl.pt/nispt/mit/convite/program.pdf