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Departamento de Informática
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: On the 'divide & conquer' metaphor — the 'quinta essentia' of programming.
Speaker. Prof. José Nuno Oliveira, HASLab, INESC TEC & UMinho.
Date&Venue: Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee Session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk Session: 14h -15h, Auditório A2, 1st Floor.
Abstract: "Divide & conquer" (D&C) is a well-known programming principle based on recursively breaking down a complex problem into sub-problems of the same kind. D&C is also a basis for parallel programming, Google map-reduce being one of its best known instances. But how does the metaphor with "divide et impera" in politics and sociology get into a programmer's way? This talk introduces "formal metaphors" and their algebra to reason about a wide range of problem specifications that can be implemented in a D&C fashion. We show that this falls into the more general programming strategy known as "change of virtual data structure", which can be achieved in two basic ways. These will be illustrated with the quicksort and mergesort algorithms, showing what they have in common and what makes them different from the very start of development.
About the speaker: José Nuno Oliveira is a full professor at the Informatics Department of the university of Minho and a senior research member at HASLabINESC TEC and Univ. of Minho. He graduated in electrical engineering from the Univ. of Porto and received the MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the Univ. of Manchester, UK. Prof. Oliveira's main research interests are formal methods, algebra of programming, and functional programming. Prof. Oliveira served on the PC of almost 50 conferences and workshops in his field of study and co-chaired some of them. He is also a member of IFIP WG2.1 and of the FME association.. Read more about his research here: http://haslab.uminho.pt/jno/.
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Pattern Based Software Development.
Speaker: Rui Couto
Date&Venue: June, 29, Braga, INESC TEC's Pole
Coffee Session: 1.30 pm to 2.00 pm (Lounge, 4th floor of DI, Building 07)
Talk Session: 2.00 pm to 2.30 pm (Auditorium A2, 1st floor)
Abstract: For its contribution to a systematic and rigorous process, Model Driven Architecture (MDA) can be seen as an interesting software development methodology. Software models (being formal representations), are used in the MDA as a part of a systematic and automated development process. Software models are derived from requirement specifications (requirement models), and such transformation is usually a manual process. It is well known that manual transformation process have a negative impact in the overall process, being the same is valid for the requirement models to software models transformation process.
In order to mitigate these problems, this work proposes a developent process, to support the automatic transformation of requirement models into software models. It allows for the integration of requirement models as part of the MDA standard process. The proposal is supported by a framework, sustained by a controlled natural language in order to formalize the requirements specification. The specifications are then converted into an intermediary representation, with support for information manipulation, and then to identify software requirement patterns. These software requirement patterns represent common requirements found across several specifications. The software requirement patterns support the process of identifying relevant software patterns, which can be instantiated and combined in order to produce architectural models. These models are integrated in the MDA process, in order to at the end achieve source code, user interface prototypes, among other analysis artifacts.
Keywords: Software Engineering, Model Driven Development, Software Patterns.
Speaker:Rui Couto is a PhD student at the Department of Informatics of the University of Minho, supervised by Prof. António Nestor Ribeiro and Prof. José Creissac Campos, and a researcher at HASLab/INESC TEC. His research interests lie in the intersection of Model Driven Development, Software Engineering, and Requirements Engineering. He holds an MSc. in Informatics Engineering from the University of Minho, and has been working on the application of model driven techniques and tools to the software development process since then. Rui is particularly interested in bringing closer the software engineering and requirements engineering fields, with a focus on automated reasoning techniques and tools. Rui has published several conference and workshop papers so far.
JOIN'2016 - Jornadas de Informática
13, 14 e 15 de junho de 2016
Nos dias 13, 14 e 15 de junho de 2016 decorrem na Universidade do Minho as XIV.ª Jornadas de Informática, um evento anual que visa promover a interação entre os alunos dos cursos de três ciclos de estudos desta universidade com uma forte componente de informática e o meio empresarial, regional ou nacional, que tem sido a sua maior força empregadora.
Durante os três dias do evento poderás assistir a sessões científicas, de índole mais técnica ou tutorial, e a sessões de divulgação das empresas do referido tecido empresarial, de workshops temáticos por elas oferecidos e divulgação de propostas de temas de dissertação, projetos de investigação e desenvolvimento e oportunidades de emprego.
Assim, durante esta edição poderás assistir a sessões de aproximadamente 45 minutos cada, em que os oradores convidados abordarão temas de interesse técnico para a comunidade científica da universidade. Este ano, os temas abordam conceitos e tecnologias avançadas sobre : Intelligent Cloud, Computer Security e MedTech.
Mais info http://join.di.uminho.pt
Summer School in Advanced Scientific Computing
Monday 20th June - Thursday 23rd June
This Summer School in Advanced Scientific Computing in Europe, is a week-long workshop which introduces researchers, faculty, staff, students, and industrial partners to high performance computing, data analytics, and scientific visualization. TACC's technology experts will teach attendees how to effectively use advanced computing resources and technologies like Stampede, Maverick, and Wrangler.
This event is appropriate for all skill levels, from new users of advanced computing technologies to those who have research projects requiring powerful computing, visualization, storage or software capabilities.
The courses and lab classes in this Summer School will be supplied by experts in High Performance Computing (HPC) from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), at Austin, Texas, with experience in similar courses. This Summer School is the unique opportunity of attendance of this course in Europe and the contentes will be similar to those that TACC staff is preparing for the next TACC Summer Supercomputing Institute, using the same course and training materials and accessing the same remote HPC resources at TACC.
Researchers and PG students in Scientific Computing, both from Science and Engineering areas, with a need to efficiently use intensive computing resources, to process and visualize large quantities of data. The attendees should be motivated to take advantage of modern computer architectures based on an increasing number of CPU cores, to better explore their potential.
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HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Verifiable side-channel security of cryptographic implementations: constant-time MEE-CBC.
Speaker. Prof. Manuel Barbosa, HASLab/INESC TEC & UMinho, and DCC-FCUP.
Date&Location: Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee Session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk Session: 14h -15h, Auditório A2, 1st Floor.
Abstract: We provide further evidence that implementing software countermeasures against timing attacks is a non-trivial task and requires domain-specific software development processes: we report an implementation bug in the S2N library, recently released by AWS Labs. This bug (now fixed) allowed bypassing the balancing countermeasures against timing attacks deployed in the implementation of the MAC-then-Encode- then-CBC- Encrypt (MEE-CBC) component, creating a timing side-channel similar to that exploited by Lucky 13. Although such an attack could only be launched when the MEE-CBC component is used in isolation – Albrecht and Paterson recently confirmed in independent work that S2N's second line of defence provides adequate mitigation – its existence shows that conventional software validation processes are not being effective in this domain. To solve this problem, we define a methodology for prov- ing security of implementations in the presence of timing attackers: first, prove black-box security of an algorithmic description of a cryptographic construction; then, establish functional correctness of an implementation with respect to the algorithmic description; and finally, prove that the implementation is leakage secure.
We present a proof-of-concept application of our methodology to MEE- CBC, bringing together three different formal verification tools to produce an assembly implementation of this construction that is verifiably secure against adversaries with access to some timing leakage. Our methodology subsumes previous work connecting provable security and side-channel analysis at the implementation level, and supports the verification of a much larger case study. Our case study itself provides the first provable security validation of complex timing countermeasures deployed, for ex- ample, in OpenSSL.
About the speaker: Manuel Barbosa is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto. He is a member and co-coordinator of the High Assurance Software Laboratory at INESC TEC, where he leads the Cryptography and Information Security group. He obtained a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto in 1996, an MSc degree from University Newcastle in 1997 and a PhD degree in Electric and Electronic Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2000. His recent research contributions have been in the field of provable security of cryptographic algorithms and domain-specific languages for the implementation and formal verification of cryptographic software. Learn more about him at http://haslab.uminho.pt/mbb.
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Frontiers of Big and Open Linked Data.
Speaker: Prof. Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Date&Location: Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk session: 14h -15h, Auditório A2, 1st Floor.
Abstract: Governments attach much attention to the opening and linking of data to serve transparency, innovation, better resources utilization, and related objectives. At the same time, datification produce more and more data (big, linked and potentially open) that can be used for a variety of purposes. This data deluge has resulted in many new applications and services. However, despite the efforts undertaken, the progress in utilizing such data is falling short of its potential and government ambitions. The seminar will introduce the concepts of big, linked, open data, outline how such data is being produced through datafication processes, and present innovative applications and the latest research results in the area. The focus will be on combing varieties of data using platforms that bring together public organizations, businesses and citizens.
About the speaker: Prof.dr.ir. Marijn Janssen holds the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek chair in "ICT and Governance" and is head of the Information and Communication Technology section of the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty of Delft University of Technology.
More information at www.tbm.tudelft.nl/marijnj.
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Formalizing Single-assignment Program Verification: an Adaptation-complete Approach.
Speaker: Cláudio B. Lourenço, HASLab/INESC TEC & University of Minho.
Date&Location: Wednesday, March 30, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk session: 14h00 -14h30, Auditório A2, 1st Floor.
Abstract: Deductive verification tools typically rely on the conversion of code to a single-assignment (SA) form. In this paper we formalize program verification based on the translation of While programs annotated with loop invariants into a dynamic single-assignment language with a dedicated iterating construct, and the subsequent generation of compact, indeed linear-size, verification conditions. Soundness and completeness proofs are given for the entire workflow, including the translation of annotated programs to SA form. The formalization is based on a program logic that we show to be adaptation-complete. Although this important property has not, as far as we know, been established for any existing program verification tool, we believe that adaptation-completeness is one of the major motivations for the use of SA form as an intermediate language. Our results here show that indeed this allows for the tools to achieve the maximum degree of adaptation when handling subprograms.
About the speaker: Cláudio is a third-year MAPi PhD student, affiliated with HASLab/INESC TEC & University of Minho, and working under supervision of Jorge Sousa Pinto. His area of interest and PhD thesis focuses on formal verification of programs. In particular, he has been working on the formalization of different approaches to generate efficiently-solved verification conditions. He has graduated in Computer Science from the University of Minho, in 2011, having attended one year at the University of Groningen, under the European Erasmus Program. In 2013, he completed his Master degree in Software Engineering at the University of Minho, where he studied mainly formal methods and distributed systems. His Master's thesis, "A bounded model checker for SPARK", focused on bounded verification of SPARK programs. In 2012 and 2013, he also participated, as a research fellow, in different projects supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. More recently he did an internship at the Japanese National Institute of Informatics under the supervision of Shin Nakajima where he explored and implemented different methods to generate verification conditions in the context of LLVM intermediate representation.
Workshop - Git
18 de março de 2015
O CESIUM organiza mais uma workshop, desta vez subordinada ao tema Introdução ao Git. Esta workshop decorrerá no Departamento de Informatica, em Gualtar, no dia 16 de março no DI-A2 pelas 14:30.
Inscrições em https://cesium.typeform.com/to/foVP1C
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Suggested Read: A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity.
Speaker: Bernardo Portela, HASLab/INESC TEC & University of Minho.
Date&Location: Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk session: 14h00 -14h30, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Abstract:There is a large gap between a problem not being easy and the same problem being difficult - A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity represents a classic work by Russel Impagliazzo in the fields of computational complexity and cryptography, and serves as introductory and motivational material for promoting research in these subjects. To do this, Impagliazzo proposes five worlds, existing as a direct consequence of solving the "big" questions of computational complexity: Algorithmica, Heuristica, Pessiland, Minicrypt and Cryptomania. In each world, he analyzes (at a very high-level) the influence of solving these questions on algorithm design, artificial intelligence, cryptography and computer security. Our world is one of the above. This work is particularly interesting for researchers outside these areas of complexity and cryptography, as they are exactly the intended audience. The challenges presented are fairly well-known by everyone in the computer sciences community, and the consequences of their solutions are a powerful way to contextualize their importance. Furthermore, it is interesting to realize that these questions were not recent by the time the paper was published (1995), and they remain relevant and unanswered by 2016.
About the speaker: Bernardo is a third-year MAPi PhD student, affiliated with HASLab/INESC TEC & Univ. of Minho, and working under supervision of Manuel Barbosa. His areas of interest are Cryptography, Formal methods and Distributed systems. In particular, his thesis "High-Assurance Multiparty Computation" is focused on the challenge of bridging theoretical and practical approaches towards multiparty computation. Bernardo has been actively contributing in two projects: PRACTICE and SafeCloud. In the context of PRACTICE, he has researched the theoretical implications of the new Intel instruction set architecture "SGX", towards enabling multiparty computation. In the context of SafeCloud, he has explored the feasibility of different trust models and special encryption techniques towards real-world cloud deployments. Bernardo's cooperation with researchers from the University of Bristol has resulted in a contribution to be presented at EuroS&P: "Foundations of Hardware-Based Attested Computation and Application to SGX".
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Towards a Linear Algebra Semantics for SQL.
Speaker: Prof. José Nuno Oliveira, HASLab/INESC TEC & University of Minho.
Date&Location: Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk session: 14h00 -15h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Abstract: In the 1990s, J. Gray (et al.) wrote: "[...] expressing roll-up, and cross-tab queries with conventional SQL is daunting. [...] GROUP BY is an unusual relational operator [...]". E.Codd also expressed similar concerns: "[...] relational DBMS were never intended to provide [...] for data [...] consolidation [in] multi-dimensional data analysis". In this talk, these remarks are taken as motivation for proposing (typed) linear algebra as theoretical framework able to smoothly accommodate the quantitative and qualitative aspects of SQL semantics, in a unified way, amenable to interpreting SQL queries in a distributed, map-reduce style.
About the speaker: José Nuno Oliveira is a full professor at the Informatics Department of the university of Minho and a senior research member at HASLabINESC TEC and Univ. of Minho. He graduated in electrical engineering from the Univ. of Porto and received the MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the Univ. of Manchester, UK. Prof. Oliveira's main research interests are formal methods, algebra of programming, and functional programming. The proposed talk can be framed in his efforts to develop a linear algebra of programming applicable to quantitative formal methods in software engineering. Prof. Oliveira served on the PC of almost 50 conferences and workshops in his field of study and co-chaired some of them. He is also a member of IFIP WG2.1 and of the FME association. For more information, please visit his webpage
MERSTel 2016 Workshop: "IoT for Intelligent Transport System: How Crowdsourcing has Changed Our World"
05 de fevereiro de 2016
Invited Talk
Prof. Riri Fitri Sari
DI - Anf. A2 - Friday, February 5th 2016, 15h00
Abstract: This talk presents the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) with the use of sensors and devices and their implementation for the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The development of the Intelligent Transport System, Vehicular Network, and the supporting communication technologies will be elaborated. The theme of people as sensors and mining social media for meaningful information will be elaborated for the topic of Intelligent Transport System. We will also discuss some applications that take an open data approach to traffic and navigation.
Riri Fitri Sari is a Professor of Computer Engineering at the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Indonesia (UI) . Presently she holds the position of the CIO/Head of Information System Development and Services of the University of Indonesia. She graduated with a BSc in Electrical Engineering from UI. She gained a Master in Human Resources Management from the Atmajaya University Jakarta. Subsequently she completed her MSc degree in Software Systems and Parallel Processing from the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK, funded by British Council Chevening Award. She holds a PhD in Computer Networks from the School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK. Her PhD research was on Active Networks-based Congestion Control Protocols. Her current main teaching and research area includes Computer Network, Grid Computing, and ICT implementation. Prof. Dr. Sari is a Senior Member of the Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). In November 2011, IEEE Region 10 Asia Pacific announce her as the recipient of the IEEE WIE Most Inspiring Engineer Award, awarded at the IEEE Region 10 Meeting in Kolkata, India, March 2012. Prof. Dr. Riri Fitri Sari is the 2009 Most Outstanding Lecturer at the University of Indonesia and the 3rd Winner of the National Selection of the Most Outstanding Lecturer hold by the Ministry of National Education of Republic of Indonesia in conjunction with the 64th National Independence Day.
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Formal Analysis and Verification of Database Query Languages.
03 de fevereiro de 2016
Speaker: Dr. Raju Halder, HASLab/INESC TEC & University of Minho.
Date&Location: Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk session: 14h00 -15h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Abstract. In this talk, we describe the abstract interpretation of Database Query Languages and its various applications. We formalized a complete denotational semantics, both at concrete and abstract levels, of database applications instrumented with data manipulation language operations such as SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE. The theoretical formal framework serves as a foundation of several interesting practical applications, e.g. fine grained access control of data, persistent watermarking, cooperative query answering, etc. In this direction, the issue of semantics-based dependence refinement in database language is also addressed which leads to a more precise analysis of database applications, including program slicing, language-based information flow security analysis, etc. The semantics-based analysis of Hibernate Query Language this way leads to a formal verification of persistent object's properties as well..
About the speaker. Raju Halder is currently a re- searcher at HASLab/INESC TEC and University of Minho. He received his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Prior to HASLab, Raju was a Post-Doctoral researcher at Macquarie University (Australia) and then joined the Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Be- fore the Ph.D, he also worked at IBM India Pvt. Ltd. Raju is the recipient of "Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Re- search (MIUR)" fellowship; he also got two Best Paper Awards at CISIM'11 and ACSS'15. Raju has served as PC member and reviewer for tens of conferences. His research interests include Abstract Interpretation, Model Checking, Program Analysis and Verification, Databases, etc.. You may want to visit the speaker's webpage for more details: http://www.iitp.ac.in/~halder/index.html.
CESIUM - Semana de Engenharia Informática.
06 a 13 de fevereiro de 2016
Na semana de 6 a 13 de Fevereiro realizar-se-à mais uma edição da SEI - Semana da Engenharia Informática, uma semana organizada por alunos e para alunos, gratuita e totalmente dedicada a apresentar e aprofundar temas de destaque no panorama atual da informática.
A SEI (http://seium.org), anteriormente designada por Semana da LEI, tem vindo a apresentar um programa intensivo composto por uma Hackathon, palestras e workshops orientados por oradores de relevo a nível nacional, uma variedade de momentos de discussão e pró-atividade, uma abordagem social e momentos de lazer. Desta forma, pretende-se inspirar alunos não só da nossa universidade, mas também de outras e até de toda comunidade que nos rodeia.
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: A Layered Architecture for Tracing Distributed Systems.
22 de janeiro de 2016
Date&Location: Friday, January 22, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee session: 11h30 -12h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk session: 12h00 -13h00, Auditório 2, first Floor.
Speaker: Prof. Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University, USA.
Title. A Layered Architecture for Tracing Distributed Systems.
Abstract. Many tasks for understanding and managing the execution of systems, such as debugging, snapshotting, monitoring, accounting, providing performance guarantees, are much harder in distributed settings. Correspondingly, many techniques such as distributed timestamps, end-to-end tracing, and taint tracking have been successfully used to help with these tasks. Their deployment, however, is usually fraught with difficulties, including intrusive instrumentation and lack of pervasiveness. In this talk I describe a layered architecture that factors primitives that are common to all these techniques – most importantly the causal propagation of generic metadata – with the goal of simplifying the instrumentation of current and new systems, and lowering the barrier for the adoption of these and novel techniques.
About the speaker. Rodrigo Fonseca is an assistant professor at Brown University's Computer Science Department. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, and prior to Brown was a visiting researcher at Yahoo! Research. He is broadly interested in networking, distributed systems, and operating systems. His research involves seeking better ways to build, operate, and diagnose distributed systems, including large-scale internet systems, cloud computing, and mobile computing. He is currently working on dynamic tracing infrastructures for these systems, on new ways to leverage network programmability, and on better ways to manage energy usage in mobile devices. Rodrigo has a high record of peer reviewed publications; he regularly serves as a PC member in pioneer conferences in his area like SIGCOMM, EuroSys, NSDI, DSN, OSDI, Middleware, HotCloud, etc., and co-chaired some of them. He teaches Computer Networks and Advanced Networking at the Computer Science Department, and he mentored several PhD students. You may want to visit the speaker's webpage for more details: http://cs.brown.edu/people/rfonseca/.
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Typed Connector Families.
13 de janeiro de 2016
Date&Location: Wednesday, January 13, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk session: 14h00 -14h45, Auditório 2, first Floor.
Speaker: José Proença, HASLab/INESC TEC and University of Minho.
Title. Typed Connector Families.
Abstract. Typed models of connector/component composition specify interfaces describing ports of components and connectors. Typing ensures that these ports are plugged together appropriately, so that data can flow out of each output port and into an input port. These interfaces typically consider the direction of data flow and the type of values flowing. Components, connectors, and systems are often parameterised in such a way that the parameters affect the interfaces. Typing such connector families is challenging. This work takes a first step towards addressing this problem by presenting a calculus of connector families with integer and boolean parameters. The calculus is based on monoidal categories, with a dependent type system that describes the parameterised interfaces of these connectors. As an example, we demonstrate how to define n-ary Reo connectors in the calculus. The paper focusses on the structure of connectors – well-connectedness – and less on their behaviour, making it easily applicable to a wide range of coordination and component-based models. A type-checking algorithm based on constraints is used to analyse connector families, supported by a proof-of-concept implementation.
About the speaker. José Proença is currently a postdoc at HASLab/INESC TEC and University of Minho, working with Prof. Luís Barbosa. José holds a masters degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Minho and a PhD from Leiden University, Amsterdam, working on CWI within the group of Foundations of Software Engineering. Before joining HASLab, José was affiliated with Distrinet, KU Leuven, working mainly with Danny Hughes and Dave Clarke, and he spent some time at Bristol University, UK. José works mainly on coordination of distributed components, often associated to the Reo coordination language, and on formal approaches to software product line engineering. More recently he has been working on binding and component models for embedded devices in the context of the LooCI middleware and micro PnP. José has many publications in his research area, and he serves as PC member and reviewer for several journals and conferences, which he co-chaired some of them.
HASLab InfoBlender Seminar: Toward dependable interactive systems
06 de janeiro de 2016
Date&Location: Wednesday, January 6, 2016, at DI, Gualtar campus, Braga.
Coffee session: 13h30 -14h00, Sala de Estar, 4th Floor.
Talk session: 14h00 -14h45, Auditório 2, first Floor.
Speaker: Camille Fayollas, Université de Toulouse, France
Title. Toward dependable interactive systems: dealing with system faults at development and run time.
Abstract. Engineering interactive systems for safety critical applications such as in avionic digital cockpits (and more generally Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)) is a challenge from a dependability viewpoint. The dependability of the user interface and its related hardware and software components must be consistent with the criticality of the functions to be controlled. This talk will introduce the challenges existing for using interactive systems for the command and control of critical functions. This talk will then present and a dual approach based on fault prevention and fault tolerance for dealing with system faults both at development and run time. Firstly, we propose a model-based approach to describe in a complete and unambiguous way interactive software components to prevent as much as possible development software faults. Secondly, we propose a fault tolerant approach to deal with operational natural faults. This is achieved through the implementation of a fault tolerant architecture based on the principle of self-checking components.
About the speaker. Camille Fayollas is a temporary assistant professor in Computer Science at National Polytechnic Institute (University of Toulouse, INP-ENSEEIHT), France. She completed her PhD, focusing on a Generic Soft- ware Architecture and a Model-Based Approach for the Dependability of Critical Interactive Systems in July 2015. Her research involves techniques, notations and tools to analyse dependability and fault-tolerance of interactive critical systems. Please read about the speaker on http://www.irit.fr/~Camille.Fayollas/.
Membro do DI e Diretor do HASLab é membro do Conselho de Administração do INESC TEC
10 de julho de 2015
Mais info http://haslab.uminho.pt
JOIN'2015 - Jornadas de Informática
23, 25 e 26 de junho de 2015
Nos dias 23, 25 e 26 de Junho de 2015 decorrem na Universidade do Minho as XIII Jornadas de Informática, um evento anual que visa promover a interação entre os alunos dos cursos de três ciclos de estudos desta universidade com uma forte componente de informática e o meio empresarial, regional ou nacional, que tem sido a sua maior força empregadora.
Os três dias do evento serão divididos entre sessões científicas, de índole mais técnica ou tutorial, nas partes da manhã, e em sessões de divulgação das empresas do referido tecido empresarial, de workshops temáticos por elas oferecidos e divulgação de propostas de temas de dissertação, projetos de investigação e desenvolvimento e oportunidades de emprego. Estas atividades da parte da tarde são já conhecidas como JobShop.
Assim, as manhãs serão preenchidas com sessões de aproximadamente de 45 minutos cada, em que os oradores convidados abordarão temas de interesse técnico para a comunidade científica da universidade. Este ano, os temas abordam conceitos e tecnologias avançadas sobre : Internet of Things / Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), 40 Anos de Informática na UM e Novas Linguagens de Programação .
Mais info http://join.di.uminho.pt
Conference: Julia Taylor - What Can We Learn From Computers' (Not) Understanding Humor
18th of March, 2015, 14h30 at DI-A2
Abstract: Humor-centered computing is impossible without humor. In order for it to have humor, humor must be formalized and made computable. For it to happen, there must exist a theory of humor suitable for computation. For a quarter of a century, the humor community has thought there was a reliable formal linguistic theory: on a full comprehension of its nature, it has allowed for reasonable consensus on joke analyses and their reproducibility by human experts. With the development and availability of semantic computing, however, it has become clear to the principals that the theory is not quite adequate. The talk focuses on elevating the currently dominant formal theory of humor to a level suitable for computational use and developing a computational system capable of understanding the joke mechanism. This mechanism will enable the computer to provide a punch line to a human generated setup (even if unintentional) and conversely, to react competently to a human generated punch line that follows a setup that is generated by either participant. The talk will utilize the Ontological Semantic Technology resources and algorithms that are applied to comprehensive meaning representations of jokes and individual preferences for them.
Bio: Julia M. Taylor earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2008, M.S. in Computer Science in 2004, and B.S. in Computer Science and B. A. in Mathematics in 1999 at the University of Cincinnati. After a short postdoc at the Cincinnati Children Hospital and Medical Center, she worked as Senior Research Engineer at RiverGlass, Inc. (2008-2011), improving and implementing the Ontological Semantic Technology for an analytics application. She was a Visiting Scholar at Purdue since 2008 and joined CERIAS as a Research Assistant Professor in June 2011. Since January 2012, she has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Technology as well as an elected Fellow of CERIAS. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in artificial intelligence, computational humor, computational semantics, fuzzy logic, information security, and robotic communication and intelligence. She has also served on the editorial boards of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research and European Journal of Humour Research and co-chaired the first AAAI Fall 2012 Symposium on Artificial intelligence of Humor in Arlington, VA.
Workshop - Git Basics
18 de março de 2015
O CESIUM organiza mais uma workshop, desta vez subordinada ao tema Git Basics. Esta workshop decorrerá no Departamento de Informatica, em Gualtar, no dia 18 de março no DI-A1 pelas 17:00.
Inscrições em https://cesium.typeform.com/to/RTEyMB
Semana da Engenharia Informática
14 a 21 de fevereiro de 2015
O grupo de estudantes CESIUM, promoveu de 14 a 21 de fevereiro de 2015 a Semana da Engenharia Informática aqui no Departamento de Informática. Os alunos puderam participar em palestras, workshops, eventos sociais, interação com empresas, desafios, animação e outras surpresas. Neste evento participaram alunos de LEI, LCC e de algumas secundárias de Braga.
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Seminário: "Formal modelling, safety analysis and medical devices"
18 de fevereiro de 2015
No dia 18 de fevereiro de 2015 teve lugar no A1, entre as 13h45 e as 14:30, um seminário sob o tema "Formal modelling, safety analysis and medical devices." como orador Michael Harrison (Newcastle University & Queen Mary University of London).
Resumo: The talk describes aspects of two current research projects, part of CHI+MED a UK funded initiative focusing on the safety and usability of medical devices. The first project uses the IVY tool (developed at Braga) in an ongoing risk analysis of a paediatric dialysis machine, currently making the transition from research project at Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary to marketable product. Issues for focus include the nature of the model, the properties relevant to arguing that appropriate control measures are in place, and the nature of the conversation between the medical physicists, who developed the device, and the modeller.The second project explores the role of IVY patterns in proving properties of an IV infusion pump using theorem proving techniques. This part of the talk will (if there is time) discuss the role of the patterns as heuristics driving the analysis of the interactive behaviour of the device, demonstrating that user related safety requirements are satisfied.
Alunos de Engenharia Informática da UMinho apresentam produtos de software no GNRation.
13 de fevereiro de 2015
No dia 13-Fev, pelas 14h, oito grupos de alunos do Mestrado em Engenharia Informática da UMinho deslocaram-se ao espaço GNRation para tentarem virar a sua sorte. O evento, que contou com o apoio da StartupBraga, teve como enfoque a apresentação, a um conjunto de especialistas e empresários, dos projetos desenvolvidos, no âmbito da unidade curricular (UC) de Projecto de Engenharia Informática. Esta UC permite aos alunos desenvolverem produtos de software, em permanente contacto com o meio empresarial e os clientes finais. Ao longo da tarde foram apresentados os oito projetos: Nutrium, SOL, Parkr, Reconfigurable, Duster, CLAP, CloudProphet e yWallet.
Este evento marcou o fim oficial da unidade curricular de Projecto de Engenharia Informática e os envolvidos nos projetos esperam que este sirva de plataforma de visibilidade para os mesmos. Esperam assim que o mercado lhes dê atenção e absorva as suas propostas de negócio, reforçando assim a posição de referência que o Mestrado de Engenharia Informática, da UMinho, assume no panorama nacional e internacional.
Cerimónia de Graduação dos alunos da EEUM que concluíram a sua Licenciatura ou o seu Mestrado em 2013/14
24 de janeiro de 2015
24 de Janeiro, 9h30, realizou-se em Azurém, sede da Escola de Engenharia da UM, a Cerimónia de Graduação dos alunos da EEUM que concluíram a sua Licenciatura ou o seu Mestrado em 2013/14. As Direções de Curso do DI foram representadas pelo Professor Doutor Pedro Rangel Henriques, Diretor de Curso da LEI. Esta Cerimónia de Graduação está inserida na Semana da Escola de Engenharia que decorreu de 22 a 27 de janeiro de 2015.
Palestra sobre "Bidirectional Model Transformation"
30 de Outubro de 2014
Title: Bidirectional Programming in Software Development
Convidado: Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics)
Abstract: Bidirectional programming is to develop well-behaved bidirectional transformations in order to solve various synchronization problems. Several bidirectional programming languages exist to aid programmers in writing bidirectional transformations with increased maintainability but decreased expressiveness. Most existing bidirectional programming languages are to aid programmers in writing a forward transformation "get" and deriving a backward transformation "put" for free. However, the maintainability offered by such languages comes at the cost of expressiveness and (more importantly) predictability because the ambiguity of synchronization handled by the putback transformation is solved by default strategies over which programmers have little control.
One interesting but less known fact is that while get usually loses information when mapping from a source to a view, put must preserve information when putting back from the view to the source, according to the well-behavedness property.
In this talk, I will talk about our recent progress on putback-baesd bidirectional programming, explaining how to design user-friendly languages for supporting putback-based bidirectional programming, showing how to systematically check whether the definition of a put is in a valid form that guarantees that the corresponding unique get exists, demonstrating how to apply putback-based bidirectional programming in software development, and highlighting important issues and challenges for future work.
Jornadas Internacionais sobre Cidades Inteligentes
16 e 17 de Outubro de 2014
Envio em anexo o cartaz e o programa das JORNADAS INTERNACIONAIS SOBRE CIDADES INTELIGENTES, que se realizarão, nos próximos dias 16 e 17 de Outubro de 2014, na Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho.
Code Week @ Departamento de Informática
11 a 17 de outubro de 2014
É com grande entusiasmo que apresentamos mais uma edição da Code Week @ Departamento de Informática, na qual as portas estão abertas a toda a comunidade.
Não percas a oportunidade de te inscrever em www.di.uminho.pt/codeweek
O CeSIUM junta-se assim ao movimento Europe Code Week com uma semana repleta de eventos que não vais querer perder!
O nosso programa conta com numerosas iniciativas que promovemos tal como:
Incluímos uma palestra de Java 8, cobrindo os seus numerosos updates, um crash course onde os participantes vão desenvolver uma aplicação completamente funcional com Ruby on Rails. Além disto, podemos ainda contar com uma palestra sobre Server Automation, através de exemplos como Puppet e Docker.
Vai estar disponível um desafio algorítmico que durará a toda a semana, no qual os participantes vão competir codificando a solução na linguagem à sua escolha, apenas precisando de submeter uma resposta – o que pode ser feito quantas vezes quiserem.
Conferência Internacional sobre Ruby
13 e 14 de outubro de 2014
Pela primeira vez em Portugal, uma conferência internacional dedicada à linguagem de programação Ruby. A decorrer no Bom Jesus de Braga e com organização a cargo da Group Buddies, esta conferência conta com cerca de 200 participantes e vários speakers de renome na área (Steve Klabnik, Katrina Owen, Carlos Souza, Terence Lee, entre outros).
Esperamos que todos os Associação de Estudantespossam assistir a esta incrível conferência. No entanto, mesmo que não compareçam, esses dias incluem outras atividades como um dia temático de Retrocomputing no Departamento de Informática da Universidade do Minho e a palestra de Java 8 falada anteriormente.
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MIDDLEBURY — More than 40 golfers took part in the Dud Phinney Member-Guest tournament at the Ralph Myhre Golf Course in Middlebury this past weekend.
Among the highlights of the competition, the Low Qualifier with a 72 was the duo of Joe Bartlett and Dave Anderson.
In addition, the duo of Michael Bordeleau and Peter Clark won the Horse Race competition and two golfers sank holes in one in Closest to the Pin contests: Dick Lafave on No. 7 on Saturday and Marsdin Van Order on No. 4 on Sunday.
The flight winners were as follows:
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MIDDLEBURY — The Ralph Myhre Golf Course held two tournaments last week as well as its weekly Thursday men's golf and Friday Evening Mixer events.
On June 25 and 26, the course hosted its Men's Member/Member Tournament. The Gold Tees Low Gross top finishers were Bert Phinney and George Wendel, and the Gold Tees Low Net top performers were Jim Rubright and Tom Maxwell.
The White Tees Low Gross top finishers were Brent Raymond and Carsen Sanchez, and the White Tees Low Net top finishers were Mike Adams and Eric Bergland.
RUTLAND — For the second straight season, the Otter Valley Union High School golf team will compete at the Ralph Myhre Golf Course for the Division II championship.
On Tuesday, the Otters shot 388 at the Rutland Country Club to finish second, six strokes behind Woodstock, and the South Sectional tournament, thus qualifying for this coming Wednesday's championship event.
BRANDON — The Otter Valley Union High School golf team finished its regular season with another strong performance on Wednesday, defeating Mill River and Rutland at Neshobe Golf Club.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Middlebury College men's golf team tuned up for this Saturday's NESCAC championship at the Ralph Myhre Golf Course by finishing second at this past weekend's Williams Spring Classic.
The Panthers earned the right to host this weekend's NESCAC tournament with their performance this past fall. This weekend's winner earns the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Division III tournament.
MIDDLEBURY — Nicole Laberge won the Ralph Myhre Golf Course women's club championship, contested this past weekend. Laberge edged runner-up Liza Sacheli for the title.
This coming Saturday and Sunday will see another women's event: The Middlebury College Women's Invitational golf tournament will tee off on Saturday at noon and at 9 a.m. on Sunday, with shotgun starts both days.
In regular Bill Davidson Thursday Afternoon Golf on Sept. 24, the foursome of Fred Belanger, Glen Wehrwein, Dick Hodgson and Paul Butt prevailed.
MIDDLEBURY — The Ralph Myhre Golf Course women's club championship will be contested this weekend. Tee times for both Saturday and Sunday will be 9 a.m.
In Bill Davidson Thursday Afternoon Golf on Sept. 17, the foursome of John Betz, Joe Thilbourg, Jim Twitchell and Deem Schoenfeld took first place.
The trio of Ed Sommers, Mike Adams and Russ Reilly took second, with the threesome of George Ramsayer, John Davis and Ric Wheeler finishing third.
MIDDLEBURY — Tyler Smith, a member of the Newport Country Club, outshot Logan Boyles of the Green Mountain National Golf Course in a playoff to capture the title in the Boys' 16- and 17-year-old Division at the Vermont PGA Junior Championship at the Ralph Myhre Golf Course in Middlebury this past Friday. Both golfers shot 74 strokes (three over par) in the regular 18 holes of the match before the playoff.
MIDDLEBURY — The Ralph Myhre Golf Course will host three events in the next two weeks. On Friday, Aug. 7, the Middlebury course will host the Vermont PGA Junior Tour Championship, with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, brings the Club Challenge vs. Neshobe with an 8:30 a.m. back-nine shotgun start.
On Saturday, Aug. 22, Ralph Myhre will host the 34th annual Middlebury Women's Invitational, with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. Sign-ups for that event are going on now through Aug 14.
MIDDLEBURY — The trio of Jim Dayton, John Davis and Peter Mulgrew prevailed in the July 2 edition of Bill Davidson Thursday Afternoon Golf at the Ralph Myhre Golf Course.
Two threesomes finished tied for second in the best-ball event: Ed Sommers, George Ramsayer and Matt Biette, and Bert Phinney, Russ Reilly and Deem Schoenfeld.
The day's Closest To The Pin winners were Mike Adams and Biette.
Mulgrew earned the low net score overall, and Biette recorded the low net score on the Par 3 holes.
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Article: Anti-obesity potential of enzymatic fragments of hyaluronan on high-fat diet-induced obesity in C57BL/6 mice[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: Hyaluronan has diverse biological activities depending on its molecular size. The hyaluronan fragments (50 kDa) can decrease adipogenic differentiation in vitro. However, in vivo anti-obesitic effects of hyaluronan fragments have not been elucidated. Therefore, we examined the anti-obesity effects of hyaluronan fragments on high-fat diet induced obesity in in C57BL/6 mice. Oral administration of hyaluronan fragments (200mg/kg for 8 weeks) decreased body weight, adipose tissues, serum lipid (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride), and leptin level. Hyaluronan fragments decreased the hypertrophy of adipose tissue and ameliorated liver steatosis. The mRNA expression of leptin was reduced in adipocyte by treatment with hyaluronan fragments. Additionally, hyaluronan fragments enhanced the mRNA expression of PPAR-α and its target genes UCP-2 and decreased mRNA expression of PPAR- γ and fatty acid synthase in liver. In conclusions, hyaluronan fragments had marked effects on inhibiting the development of obesity in obese mice fed the high-fat diet. It suggested that enhancing PPAR-α and suppressing PPAR-γ expression are two possible mechanisms for the anti-obesitic effect of hyaluronan fragments.
Article: Enzymatic fragments of hyaluronan inhibit adipocyte differentiation in 3T3-L1 pre-adipocytes[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: Hyaluronan has diverse biological activities depending on its molecular size. High molecular weight hyaluronan (2,000 kDa) is a major component of extracellular matrix, and has been used in wounding healing, extracellular matrix regeneration, and in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Hyaluronan fragments can stimulate inflammation or induce loss of extracellular matrix. Hyaluronan is expressed during adipocyte differentiation, and down regulation of hyaluronan synthesis can reduce adipogenic differentiation. However, the direct effects of hyaluronan fragments on adipocyte differentiation have not been elucidated. Therefore, we prepared hyaluronan fragments by enzymatic digestion, and examined the inhibitory effects of these hyaluronan fragments on the accumulation of lipid droplets and on adipogenic gene mRNA expression in differentiating 3T3-L1 pre-adipocytes. Medium sized hyaluronan fragments (50 kDa) decreased lipid droplet accumulation in a dose-dependent manner. However, high molecular weight hyaluronan did not inhibit lipid droplet accumulation when used at a concentration of 600 μg/ml. Two or 4 day treatments with medium molecular weight of hyaluronan resulted in similar inhibitory levels of lipid accumulation as did treatment for 8 days. Medium sized hyaluronan inhibited the differentiation of 3T3-L1 pre-adipocytes during the early stages of adipogenesis. When 3T3-L1 cells were treated with 180 μg/ml of medium sized hyaluronan, the mRNAs for the master adipogenic transcription factors PPAR- γ and C/EBP-α were inhibited. Additionally, medium molecular weight hyaluronan suppressed mRNA expression of PPAR-γ target genes, including aP2 and FAS. This study is the first to report that medium molecular weight hyaluronan fragments can inhibit adipocyte differentiation.
Article: Synthesis of alkylsulfonyl and substituted benzenesulfonyl curcumin mimics as dual antagonist of L-type Ca(2+) channel and endothelin A/B2 receptor[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: We synthesized a library of curcumin mimics with diverse alkylsulfonyl and substituted benzenesulfonyl modifications through a simple addition reaction of important intermediate, 1-(3-Amino-phenyl)-3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-phenyl)-propenone (10), with various sulfonyl chloride reactants and then tested their vasodilatation effect on depolarization (50mM K(+))- and endothelin-1 (ET-1)-induced basilar artery contraction. Generally, curcumin mimics with aromatic sulfonyl groups showed stronger vasodilation effect than alkyl sulfonylated curcumin mimics. Among the tested compounds, six curcumin mimics (11g, 11h, 11i, 11j, 11l, and 11s) in a depolarization-induced vasoconstriction and seven compounds (11g, 11h, 11i, 11j, 11l, 11p, and 11s) in an ET-1-induced vasoconstriction showed strong vasodilation effect. Based on their biological properties, synthetic curcumin mimics can act as dual antagonist scaffold of L-type Ca(2+) channel and endothelin A/B2 receptor in vascular smooth muscle cells. In particular, compounds 11g and 11s are promising novel drug candidates to treat hypertension related to the overexpression of L-type Ca(2+) channels and ET peptides/receptors-mediated cardiovascular diseases.
Article: ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of Diethylamino-Curcumin Mimics with Substituted Triazolyl Groups and Their Sensitization Effect of TRAIL Against Brain Cancer Cells.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract] ABSTRACT: A newly designed curcumin mimic library (11a-11k) with 2-ethylamino groups in a chalcone structure and variously substituted triazole groups as side chains was synthesized using the Huisgen 1,3-cycloaddition reaction between various alkynes (a-k) and an intermediate (10), with CuSO4 and sodium ascorbate in a solution mixture of chloroform, ethanol, and water (5:3:1) at room temperature for 5h. In the lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release assay involving co-treatment with tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) and/or synthetic curcumin derivatives using TRAIL-resistant human CRT-MG astroglioma cells, the novel curcumin mimic library was found to effectively stimulate the cytotoxicity of TRAIL, causing mild cytotoxicity when administered alone. In particular, 11a and 11j are promising candidates for TRAIL-sensitizers with potential use in combination chemotherapy for brain tumors.
Article: Anti-platelet Aggregation and Anti-thrombotic Effects of Marine Natural Products Sargahydroquinoic Acid and Sargaquinoic Acid
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Georgann and David Rion of Shamrock have heard the familiar complaint over and over. It's familiar because it was something they said when they were in high school.
"One of the prevailing frustrations we hear from kids is there's not enough to do," Georgann said. "I remember growing up around here with the same frustration. We heard it enough, so we thought about how we could address it."
They are the humble owners of Texas Theater, the last of what was once more than 80 such-named theaters in the state that still shows conventional first-run movies.
"Once we started brainstorming about it together," David said, "we suddenly became pretty passionate about it."
They focused not on what they couldn't do and didn't have, but what they could do and did have. They had the venue. They have a few connections.
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The call went out just before Christmas through Region 16 Education Service Center. They sent the Rions' query, explanation letter and competition rules to 62 local high schools.
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Technology can be a double-edged sword to the small-town theater operators. They battle against Netflix and other video-on-demand subscriptions. They had to scrape and borrow to go completely digital or perish, since 35 mm film is extinct.
The Rions went digital in 2012.
In doing so, Texas Theater remained open with first-run movies, the quality of the viewing was enhanced, and it made something like this film festival more possible.
"It wasn't that long ago that kids in the Panhandle could not possibly produce a movie that I could show on the big screen," Georgann said. "It was almost impossible. All projectors were 35 mm, and the cost to put that on 35 mm was vast.
"Now it's almost instantaneous. If a kid walked up to us today, and handed us a DVD of a movie they made to let us know what they think, it would be up in five minutes."
More than 60 students from the area have signed up in the last two weeks. Many more are welcome to enter or get more information at filmfest
Wayland Baptist University in Plainview is interested in helping.
The Rions expect to have at the festival three videos from an executive producer in Hollywood, an actor from the movie "Lone Survivor" and a professional cinematographer to discuss their craft.
The Texas Theater Film Festival is a bit of an unknown, but the Rions have overcome bigger odds and been successful — like taking over the Shamrock theater in November 2010. They probably saved the theater from becoming another small-town film fossil.
Georgann, a former archivist for CNN, had a background in production when she moved back home. David took filmmaking in high school in St. Louis and always had an affinity for the industry. They jumped at the chance to lease the theater, still on the original site 84 years later at 217 N. Main St.
"Lone Survivor" is heading to Shamrock next Friday through Sunday, the three days the theater opens each week. A ticket is $6. It would be hard to find a small drink, small popcorn and small candy for $5, but some of the cheapest movie concessions around can be found there.
In a way, the Rions are holding on to the past. But with modern technology and a film festival for the young, there's an air of the future too.
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April 12, 1992
By Patricia Quigley, SPECIAL TO THE INQUIRER
Clementon employees Ellen Kovalchuk and Margaret Davenport recently were honored by the Borough Council for their involvement with Green Thumb Inc., although neither works with plants. The two women hold part-time clerical jobs in the Police Department and borough clerk's office through the Green Thumb program, which trains and places women and men over age 55 in various jobs at nonprofit agencies or organizations. Kovalchuk, 71, has worked for the Police Department for nine years, handling filing, light typing and receptionist duties.
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Inquirer staff writer Virginia Smith is writing this week from the Philadelphia Flower Show. These posts appeared on her blog, "Kiss the Earth," at philly.com/kisstheearth. Read her stories at philly.com/ginny, and other Flower Show coverage at philly.com/flowershow. Princess Beatrice would be so bored She'd be so bored in Room 201C at the show, the Make and Take room. I mean, this is the gal who showed up at William and Kate's 2011 wedding in a headpiece - known as a fascinator - described as "a beige toilet seat," "antlers," and, kindly, "a pretzel-shaped bow. " It was unbelievable.
Green Thumbs Vying For Borough Laurels Weeds Disappear As Norristown Contest Nears.
July 10, 1995
By Rena Singer, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
Visions of Norristown rarely include scenes of flowers, vine-covered trellises and fruit trees, but the borough's garden club aims to change that. For the last 11 years, it has sponsored a garden contest that pits green thumb against green thumb in this decidedly concrete borough. This year's contest, scheduled for tomorrow, includes cash prizes for the winners in six categories: side-yard, front-yard and rear-yard flower gardens, vegetable gardens, window gardens and container gardens.
A Green Light For Green Thumb Inc. The Federally Funded Agency, An Lbj Leftover, Will Provide Employment For Some Lower Camden Seniors.
November 19, 1995
By Cathleen Egan, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
The Lower Camden County Regional School District has agreed to act as a host to Green Thumb Inc., a federally funded agency that provides employment for senior citizens. The district plans to place its first Green Thumb participant, who will be selected in the next few weeks, to work in the library at Overbrook Junior High School in Lindenwold, said Michael Schreiner, superintendent of the regional district. Schreiner said the school board requested that the person chosen reside in one of the region's seven towns: Berlin Township, Chesilhurst, Clementon, Lindenwold, Pine Hill, Waterford, and Winslow.
Guv: Parole System 'Horribly Flawed' Did 'mudman' Garden To Grow New Image? Showed His Green Thumb At Graterford
May 10, 1995
by Marianne Costantinou and John F. Morrison Daily News Staff Writers
"Mudman" the flower child. "Mudman" with a green thumb. Somehow, the images clash with the police description of this big, burly, bearded and tattooed anti-social biker with a rap sheet as long as a climbing wisteria. Yet, there he was, daintily opening a sunflower, swigging cider with prison do-gooders, looking like a Neanderthal trying to smile as he discussed, of all things, gardening. Robert R. "Mudman" Simon, 43, who once put a bullet through the head of a girlfriend who wouldn't have sex with his buddies and is suspected of killing a cop in New Jersey Saturday night, worked in the organic garden outside Graterford prison, where he was serving a sentence for murder.
He Has A Growing Love For Gardens And Children A Green Thumb, He Reaps A New Career.
June 23, 1996
By Suzanne Gordon, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
To those in the garment trade, Jack Marine comes from a family that peddles chic, recycled jeans to upscale shoppers. But to those in the 7-and-under set, he's not a businessman, or even Mr. Marine. He's Jack the Gardener. Marine, 40, took on this label a few years back doing what he loves best - raising vegetables in the backyard of his Main Line ranch house, teaching his children how to garden and sharing his knowledge and his produce with neighbors. What started as a hobby is evolving into a change of careers and lifestyle for him, his wife, Shelley, and their two young children.
He likes plants, gets good grades
December 16, 2002
By Paddy Noyes FOR THE INQUIRER
When he listens to Christian music and reads the Bible, Alfred, 13, says he finds peace. And he regularly attends church. Alfred is in sixth grade, and his last report card had all A's and B's. He enjoys singing with the school chorus. His social worker said: "Just bring a game out and he'll play it. " He likes Monopoly, Scrabble and card games. Other interests include swimming, riding a bike, listening to music on the radio, and dancing if no one's around to see him. He also likes cooking, especially eggs and toast, and baking cookies.
Itching To Garden? Try A Hand At Palms Gangly Trees In Capitol Need Tlc.
July 29, 1993
By Russell E. Eshleman Jr., INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU
Got a green thumb, a hose and some shears? Pennsylvania needs someone to take care of its palm trees. Yes, palm trees - a dozen of them tucked into the "conservatory" and cafeteria areas of the Capitol's east wing, the $124-million addition to the Capitol that was built a few years ago. State officials are searching for someone to maintain the dozen gangly palms and a smattering of other flowering plants and foliage for the next three...
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April 11, 2013
DID YOU know you could save anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a year by growing your own vegetables? They will be fresher and tastier than store-bought, too. And you don't need a huge plot of land; many varieties can be grown in containers. My lovely mother-in-law, who has a green thumb and a wonderful vegetable garden of her own, has agreed to school me on the fine art of home-growing fruits and vegetables. Here are the five I plan to start with: 1. CUCUMBERS A good source of B vitamins.
Plant Helped Her Get Well Now A Thief Has Taken It
August 12, 1996
by Nicole Weisensee, Daily News Staff Writer
Gina Graney never had a green thumb. No matter what she did, the plants she so carefully nurtured didn't make it. But as she lay near death in a hospital bed 11 years ago, a friend gave her a philodendron. Not only did Graney recover, but the plant flourished, so much so that she took cuttings of it and eventually raised another plant. Graney links her miraculous recovery to the equally miraculous survival of the philodendron. Now, she can even get other plants to survive.
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July 6, 2014
BY CINDY STANSBURY, Daily News Staff Writer firstname.lastname@example.com, 215-854-5914
IN THE MIDST of Powelton, pawpaws grow. Nanking cherries are harvested and persimmons thrive as chickens lay eggs among the nearby vegetable gardens inside an oasis. "Can we have all the pleasures that country people have and still be a five-minute bike ride to the theater? Yes, we can," said Joe Revlock. Revlock, 63, is the co-founder of the Summer Winter Community Garden in Powelton, one of many community gardens that exist throughout the city under the protection of the newly restructured Neighborhood Gardens Trust, born out of the now defunct Neighborhood Gardens Association.
Gizmo green thumb
February 28, 2014
By Jonathan Takiff, Daily News Columnist
GREEN THUMBS will be wiggling with delight at the art-themed Philadelphia Flower Show, opening today through March 9 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Feeling the itch yourself? Jump-start your spring growing indoors, with a little help from these cool gizmos. Parrot Flower Power: If only our plants could share their needs and feelings. They can with this smart plant sensor, designed by the French gadget wizards at Parrot. It's programmed on and read back on a companion app for Apple iOS tablets and smartphones.
Green thumbs take to greenhouses
January 4, 2014
By Virginia A. Smith, Inquirer Staff Writer
Be honest. What kind of gardener comes to mind when you hear the word "greenhouse"? Probably not guys like Ed Egolf, a truck driver in Shermans Dale, in rural Perry County, northwest of Harrisburg. But his zest for growing tomatoes and peppers from seed indoors rivals any you'll find in elite horticulture circles. "When you're in the greenhouse working on something, focusing on that, nothing else really matters," he says cheerily. Though a popular fantasy, greenhouses aren't for everyone.
5 nutritious veggies you can grow yourself
April 11, 2013
DID YOU know you could save anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a year by growing your own vegetables? They will be fresher and tastier than store-bought, too. And you don't need a huge plot of land; many varieties can be grown in containers. My lovely mother-in-law, who has a green thumb and a wonderful vegetable garden of her own, has agreed to school me on the fine art of home-growing fruits and vegetables. Here are the five I plan to start with: 1. CUCUMBERS A good source of B vitamins.
Make and Take, green roof, green thumb
March 5, 2013
Inquirer staff writer Virginia Smith is writing this week from the Philadelphia Flower Show. These posts appeared on her blog, "Kiss the Earth," at philly.com/kisstheearth. Read her stories at philly.com/ginny, and other Flower Show coverage at philly.com/flowershow. Princess Beatrice would be so bored She'd be so bored in Room 201C at the show, the Make and Take room. I mean, this is the gal who showed up at William and Kate's 2011 wedding in a headpiece - known as a fascinator - described as "a beige toilet seat," "antlers," and, kindly, "a pretzel-shaped bow. " It was unbelievable.
Portfolio: Houseplants serve as her home decor
September 22, 2012
Tovah Martin doesn't fuss over decorator colors on the walls of her Roxbury, Conn., home. She doesn't bother with window treatments or family portraits. Houseplants - hundreds of them - are what define her decor. Martin, author of more than a dozen gardening books, including The New Terrarium in 2009, has a new one from Timber Press ($22.95) called The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices For Every Spot in Your Home . She's one of the best known and most knowledgeable garden authors in the country.
Ronald Nichols, 62, West Philly High booster
June 8, 2012
By John F. Morrison and Daily News Staff Writer
RONALD NICHOLS' idea of a break from his demanding job as groundskeeper at West Philadelphia High School during football season was to stand on the sidelines during games and try to yell louder than the coaches. And he did. Ronald not only kept the grounds in pristine condition, but he was devoted to the school, especially its sports programs. He knew the players and coaches and they knew him as a supporter and father figure. His shouts of encouragement to the players resounded across the field.
Hatfield couple's garden vision transformed suburban backyard
July 23, 2010
By Virginia A. Smith, Inquirer Staff Writer
John Thinnes insists he's "a basic gardener," but in truth, he's an inspiration to empty-nesters, suburbanites, and all the folks out there who wish they'd been "born with a green thumb. " Though he has a Ph.D. in group dynamics, Thinnes knew nothing about gardening when he started his grand project a decade ago. So, he attacked it like a true academic: He studied up; asked the experts a lot of questions; came up with a plan; and began to build, step by step, year after year. Today, Thinnes and his wife, Kathleen, enjoy an astonishing quarter-acre garden in their backyard in Ramblegate, a conventional tract-house development in Hatfield that was built in 1972.
A green thumb, with blisters on it After 11 years of toil, Mary Seton Corboy has made a success of Kensington's Greensgrow Farms.
April 17, 2009
By Virginia A. Smith INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Mary Seton Corboy grew up with private schooling, braces, and piano lessons, everything her parents thought would ensure a "clean-fingernail future. " As cofounder of Greensgrow Farms, a 3/4-acre farm and nursery in the middle of Kensington, Corboy barely has time for a personal life - bowling every Tuesday is "an excuse to see friends and drink beer" - let alone froufrou nails. Over 11 years, she's done her share of "bone-grinding, blister-making" work in the dirt. But these days, she spends way more time in the office at Greensgrow.
Cherry Hill Recycling A green thumb's up
March 26, 2008
More communities should follow the example of Cherry Hill Township, which has approved a "green action plan" to boost recycling and reduce its energy costs. The progressive plan includes installing solar panels on the township municipal building, replacing old light bulbs with low-energy, longer-lasting bulbs, and giving residents incentives to recycle. The expansion of Cherry Hill's successful pilot recycling program to the entire township should have a significant impact on the environment.
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