H2020 PEPPER project kicks off16/02/2016
Pepper is a three-year project granted by the European Commission's H2020 programme (PHC-28-2015, Grant Agreement 689810). Under the coordination of Oxford University Brookes, it seeks to develop a personalised decision support system for chronic disease management. The system, which combines case-based reasoning with predictive computer modelling, will empower patients to self-manage...
IIiA's 2015 Research Report released12/02/2016
The IIiA has just published its 2015 Research Report. It summarizes the activities and the results of the members of the institute over the last year. The document includes the IIiA's flagship projects, grants awarded, contracts won, articles published in JCR-indexed journals and PhD and Master's theses presented or supervised. The report, available on the IIiA's website, also...
Students of the MSc in Smart Cities visit Schiedam08/02/2016
Over the first week of February, 11 students of the UdG's Master's degree in Smart Cities visited Schiedam, the Netherlands. Schiedam, a 76,000 inhabitant city with an active strategy in smart cities, is Girona's sister city for the current edition of the master. This means that the practical works and master theses of the students address smart city challenges posed by...
Ester Bonmatí obtains PhD08/02/2016
Ester Bonmatí, collaborator of the Institute of Informatics and Applications, obtained a PhD on 5 February. Under the supervision of GILAB's senior researchers Dr Imma Boada and Dr Anton Bardera she developed the dissertation 'Study of brain complexity using information theory tools'. Ester Bonmatí is currently a research associate at the Centre for Medical Image Computing of the...