MSc in Smart Cities on TV329/11/2013
On 28 November TV3, Catalan Television TV3 broadcast a piece of news about the MSc in Smart Cities. The news programme at 2 PM featured a lecture from the masters course which took place at the University of Girona. You can see the piece of news in the following link at minute 2.
The first edition of the masters degree started in September 2013 with 20 students coming from several...
Lectures on Smart Cities at the Smart City Expo & World Congress20/11/2013
On 19 - 20 November Lluïsa Marsal and Joaquim Meléndez, gave two lectures on Smart Cities where given at a very special venue: Fira de Barcelona. The lectures, part of the Masters in Smart Cities curricula, were attended by some 20 students and drew the attention of many visitors attending the Smart City Expo & World Congress 2013 . Lluïsa Marsal lectured on the urban challenges modern...
GILAB at VRCAI 201320/11/2013
Rubén García and Xavier Bonaventura, researchers of the GILAB research group, took part at VRCAI 2013, the 12th ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry. The event took place at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 17 - 19 November. They presented three papers covering topics such as 3D shape similarity, Nonphotorealistic effects for...
Lluïsa Marsal obtains PhD15/11/2013
Lluïsa Marsal, researcher at the eXiT research group and member of the Institute of Informatics and Applications, obtained a PhD on 15 November. Her dissertation was supervised by Beatriz López and is entitled "Smarter urban planning through a citizen-based approach. The Smart Urban Planning Method".
Xavier Berjaga obtains PhD14/11/2013
Xavier Berjaga, researcher at the eXiT research group and member of the Institute of Informatics and Applications, obtained a PhD on 14 November. His dissertation was supervised by Joaquim Meléndez and is entitled "Case-based diagnosis of batch processes based on latent structures".
José Luis Marzo Adjunct Professor at Kansas State University11/11/2013
José Luis Marzo, senior researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Applications, has been appointed as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University, USA. Marzo is codirector of the Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems research group and carries out R&D on broadband computer networks, the Internet of Things and...
The IIiA at the Smart City Expo & World Congress06/11/2013
The IIiA will take part at the Smart City Expo & World Congress. It will exhibit its latest technologies and projects in the field of smart cities in the booth number 524. These include, energy efficiency, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Data Mining, ICT applied to urban planning and rendering of urban spaces. Besides, Lluïsa Marsal, researcher of the IIiA, will present a case study of...