In a special edition of Revista Computação Brasil, dedicated to Open Science and edited by Prof. Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, specialists from the country point out and contextualize issues that are intrinsic to the effective development of collaborative research in the country as well as in the world. Their aim was to show how Open Science can be possible, comprehensive, and sustainable. Members of INCT InterSCity made their contributions with 3 articles included in issue 46 of the journal,

The Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web (WebMedia) is an annual event held by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and, since 1995, it has been one of the most important forums in Brazil for debates between researchers, professionals and students in the multimedia areas, hypermedia and web.

The “Luiz Fernando Computing Award” is promoted within WebMedia, which aims to honor professors, researchers and students involved in innovation projects that have a social impact and promote the improvement of society.

InterSCity had a strong presence in the 2020 edition of SBRC (Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos)! Among the various excellent papers presented, the group received several awards:

Best paper in CoUrb workshop for the paper “Visualizing the structure of urban mobility with bundling: A case study of the city of São Paulo“, by Tallys Martins (IME-USP), Fabio Kon (IME-USP), Nelson Lago (IME-USP),

The INACITY project (INvestigate and Analyse a CITY) was selected to be one of the finalists competitors of the 2nd BRICS Young Innovator Prize, awarded to recognize the top research, development and innovation projects that can contribute majorly to the science and technology sectors and gathered scientists from all the BRICS nations, in the event that is part of the 4th BRICS Young Scientist Forum that happened in Nov 6th,

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MIT scientist Fabio Duarte conducted a graduate course on Urban Science at IME-USP.
The course was based on recent literature on Urban Science, AI, and Autonomous Vehicles published in the Nature and Science journals.
The contents were highly interdisciplinary and attracted 35 graduate students from Computer Science, Architecture, Urban Planning, Engineering, Physics, and Social Sciences. Staff members from the City of São Paulo, IPT, and SERPRO, the Brazilian Public IT Company, also participated.

The second InterSCity Project Workshop took place at Juquehy-SP from April 15th to 17th, with discussions on public health, environment, urban mobility and transportation, accessibility, education, architecture and urbanism, and their relationship with software platforms for smart cities, IoT, cloud computing, machine learning, and big data.