How to optimize a simulator using the multicore architecture?
Nowadays multicore architecture is everywhere. Who doesn’t have a cellphone or a laptop with more than one processor? This architecture offers new opportunities for the applications using it, because it doesn’t only provides more computing resources but also the capability of managing shared memory in order to enhance the performance.
How to take advantage of simulation for social policies?
Nowadays, to understand the reality that surrounds us and to take right decisions is not an easy task. Simulation is one of the most powerful tools we can use to analyze, design and guide our decisions in many areas of study. With simulation, we can construct a model of the reality for being able to […]
Big Data applied to sport
If we pay attention at the workout images of the greatest football teams, we can see that the players wear a sort of black jacket. This has recently appeared, so you may not know what this has to do with our area. The elite clubs are fully getting into the technology world. We all know […]
Mari Paz Linares wins the XIIth Abertis Prize
The Abertis-UPC Chair, with the aim of encouraging research, annually convenes the Abertis prizes. These award the best doctoral theses and the best final works of master or degree of the universities of Spain related to the management of infrastructures and transport services. Mari Paz has been awarded for her doctoral thesis: “A mesoscopic traffic […]
eCrime 2015 – CaixaForum, Barcelona May 26 – 29, 2015
esCERT-inLab-UPC, as closing of its 20th anniversary celebration, is co-organising with APWG.EU the eCrime2015 symposium. Prof. Manel Medina Founder and collaborator of esCERT-inLab-UPC, Coordinator of the Cyber-security Management MsC of UPC and President of the Scientific board of APWG.EU is the PC Chairman of the symposium. For 2015 APWG will combine it's Spring and Fall […]
What is a Data Scientist?
“Data science,” was born of the scientific method, is the evolution of what has hitherto been known as a data analyst, but unlike it, data scientist should explore and analyze data from multiple sources, often huge (known as Big data), which may have very different formats. Data scientist also has a strong business vision to […]
ISTWUPC 2015
About a year ago I made a post about a stay at the University of Bergen by Staff Mobility week, following that experience I decided to organize an ICT week in the UPC, so I asked for help to the ICT community and Cabinet International Relations and Business (GRIiE). The team that came after talks […]
Do you train to be a better programmer? Discover the Coding Dojo
A Dojo is where martial arts are practiced. Dojo is a Japanese word that means "place where the way is studied" therefore it has a philosophical component that is beyond gym. In a dojo people works both body and mind. Coding dojo is just a space to improve our skills as programmers.
L’inLab to Smart City App Hack
Jordi Montero of inLab FIB part of the group of experts who will guide and support participants of Barcelona Smart City Hack App. App Smart City Hack is an international project led by Barcelona seeking digital solutions for smart cities, it will work on five areas: urban transport, energy and sustainability, culture and tourism, […]