News Archive

New cut-off date: 30/Sep/2011 - Research Associate / Post-doc Positions in Computer Science and Engineering

New cut-off date: 30/Sep/2011 - Scholarships for PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

24/Sep/2009: the Navigator's PhD student Henrique Moniz won the Best Student Paper Award at DISC 2009

09/Jul/2008: Paulo Sousa, a researcher from the Navigators team, won the IBM 2007 Scientific Award, with the work "Security and Availability through Proactive Resilience"

11/Feb/2008:
Scholarships for PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

20/Jan/2008:
2nd Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems - WRAITS 2008

09/Jan/2007: Workshop on Recent Advances on Intrusion-Tolerant Systems - WRAITS 2007

21/Dec/2006:
Master/PhD at Carnegie Mellon University and University of Lisboa

25/Jun/2006: We are hiring

06/Jun/2006:
Site revamp

01/Jan/2006:
New Year, new projects: check our recently started european projects


Welcome

Welcome


We are the Navigators, a research team on distributed systems, their architectures, their algorithms, in their several skins: fault tolerance, real-time, security, and combinations thereof.

We also pursue the quest for the right balance between science and technology. Some people say that Informatics (a mix of computer science plus computer engineering) belongs to a new breed, of what are called techno-sciences. We believe that techno-scientists should know their environment - computer technology - as well as astro-physicists know the sky, or marine biologists know the sea.

We study new theories to explain distributed systems, and new algorithms to take advantage from them. But we also like to do proof-of-concept experiments about the theory we work on. We try that our papers and theses tell a good story as clearly as possible. We work hard for our demonstrations to be convincing and captivating. Because we believe science is made for others.

Our greatest riches are our culture, and our researchers and students. If you believe in the former, you can become one of the latter. Welcome!

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