INESC TEC’s Substack

In the race for supremacy in computing, the competition isn't between machines - it's against time

The blackout that left millions unreachable across the Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula Power Grid Blackout

In the technological map, are there still borders that separate quantum computing and artificial intelligence?

Is Artificial Intelligence the new iron curtain in the "cold war" between West and East?

Willow and Google's touch on the reality of quantum computing – how much longer until we witness a quantum machine solving a useful problem?

Artificial Intelligence may introduce more predictability to meteorology. Can we benefit from cheaper energy or more effective civil protection?

The radical who democratised the access of millions of students to the personal computer died. In memoriam Thomas Kurtz.

A billionaire wants to take us to Mars: how can a reusable rocket contribute to that accomplishment? And at what cost?

When creativity meets the problem: how can information technologies help victims of domestic violence?

Is it time for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to create another Nobel Prize category? The awarding of the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry seems to indicate that it is