Awards and Honors

2013

  • Mateo Valero awarded as Honorary Doctor by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Mateo Valero receives ACM's "Distinguished Service Award"
  • Alteraid Beast, team led by Juan López, won Nokia's 'hackaton' at 2013 Mobile World Congress
  • TALAIA NETWORKS a spin-off leaded by the researchers of our department Pere Barlet, Josep Sanjuas and Josep Solé-Pareta was awarded with the second prize in the VALORTEC contest
  • Mateo Valero awarded with an European Research Council's Advanced Grant
  • The newspaper "El Mundo" includes Mateo Valero in the list of 500 most influent Spaniards for 2013

2012

  • The Computer Architecture Research Group at BSC, led by Àlex Ramírez, received a 2012 HiPEAC technology award for the project 'SECO Srl: CARMA (CUDA on ARM) development kit'
  • Mateo Valero, elected Corresponding Member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias
  • DAC's Doctorate Programm has been verified by AQU Catalunya
  • Miquel Moretó Planas received the UPC's award for outstanding PhD theses in the area of Information and Communications Technology
  • David López, Fermín Sánchez, Josep-Llorenç Cruz and Agustín Fernández received the best-paper award at the "XVIII Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria sobre Informática" (JENUI’2012)
  • Ana Jokanovic and Jesús Labarta received the Best Paper Award at the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2012)
  • Phd candidate Ana Jokanovic awarded with a Davyd Luque award for Innovate Ideas on ICT
  • Cosmocaixa has selected Mont-Blanc, European Project coordinated by Àlex Ramírez, as one of the most innovative in the category "Idea d’EcotendènciesCosmoCaixa" within the cycle Moure Informació'
  • Mateo Valero conducts the laying ceremony of a replica of an Olmec colossal head