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This is the first Erasmus Mundus coordinated by UPF, through its Department of Information and Communication Technologies, which has a recognized track record in the field of artificial intelligence. The master’s degree is promoted by a European consortium that includes a further three leading universities in AI: Sapienza of Rome (Italy), Radboud (Netherlands), and Ljubljana (Slovenia). ...
Today, technological advancement has transformed the way we live, work and communicate. The growing dependence on technology and the increase in cyber threats have highlighted the need for highly trained professionals in the field of cybersecurity. It is in this context that the proposal to implement a cybersecurity chair arises, with the aim of training future experts in the field and...
DTIC-UPF, within the framework of the Fractus-UPF Chair in Technology Transfer and 6G, and the University of California at Irvine (UCI) are working on the creation of a new technological system that will allow, in case of fire, to deploy a fleet of intelligent drones, which will work in a network and in a coordinated manner, to automatically perform fire control and monitoring tasks. The...
EUTOPIA MORE has announced the approval of the first round of selection for Connected Community leads. In the case of UPF, Miquel Oliver, professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, has been selected to lead the Community of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The submitted proposals were unanimously approved by the central team of the EUTOPIA MORE Working Package...
The new research unit TESI – Technology, Society, Interactions – has been created to support the research at the intersection of human-computer interaction, social computing, network and computer applications, ethics, and their interactions with interdisciplinary areas of social relevance, such as education. TESI builds on the research groups TIDE (Interactive and distributed technologies for...
The Equality Commission at DTIC resumed activity in 2023 on March 23rd, with a first meeting of its members, where the priorities for 2023 and beyond were discussed. The Equality Commission at DTIC is currently composed by: Teaching and Research Staff: Núria Sebastian (president) Coloma Ballester Laura Becerra Davinia Hernández-Leo Administrative Staff: Sonia Espí...
Catalonia will host one of the four new units of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), the pan-European network of excellence in artificial intelligence that connects the best researchers in the field of AI in Europe. The new ELLIS Barcelona Unit will become the third largest unit in the quarantine that make up the network and represents a guarantee of the high...
Music has always been used for its calming qualities, but there is still little scientific understanding of how it affects the brain before and during sleep and which musical qualities are particularly effective from both a subjective and an objective perspective in inducing it. Through interdisciplinary research, how music can facilitate the transition between wakefulness and...
Horacio Saggion has received an "Oracle for Research Project Award" to work on "Deep Learning Sign Language Recognition (SLR) and Sign Language Translation (SLT): Towards better models for under resourced Sign Languages".
The objective of DTIC-UPF’s second MdM programme is to launch and implement a strategic program which takes the unit’s interdisciplinary research to a new level and makes strides into transdisciplinary research. This reflects a concern for the complex nature of the challenges facing society: some of these challenges can only be tackled through transdisciplinary efforts. To this end,...
Rubén Moreno Bote, professor at the DTIC, is coordinator of the Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group at the Centre for Cognition and the Brain (CBC). His research focuses on the link between neural activity, perception, and behavior and decision-making. In recent years they have analysed the 'neural code' (that is, the format in which information is encoded in neuronal...
We often express our thoughts in words to communicate ideas, present arguments or make decisions. But what format and structure do these thoughts take in the brain? In the fields of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, there are still many unknowns surrounding this issue, and it is unclear whether thoughts are represented in the mind by mental models (e.g. images) or by structures and rules...
Music provokes multiple emotions about us, not only when listening to it, but also when we give wings to our creativity and we ourselves generate a melody when playing an instrument. Music pedagogy professionals are already taking advantage of this ability to improve teaching methodologies in the classroom because, if students feel positive emotions when playing, they retain more of what they...
In the Music Technology Group, we develop computational tools that assist in the study of a wide range of musical repertoires. Phonos Worldwide intends to showcase some of these repertoires, exhibiting four traditional musics from a sample of cultures that the MTG has been fortunate enough to work with. Six musicians will present four musical traditions (Chinese Guqin, Carnatic Music, Galician...
+RAIN Film Fest is a transdisciplinary project organized by the Department of Communication, the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, and the Arsenal ecosystem, all at Pompeu Fabra University. The Social Council of the UPF also provides financial support and collaborates with the festival. On the other hand, Pompeu Fabra University has partnered with the organization...