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From 'Dr. Google' to ChatGPT: Are the Internet's Answers to Health Questions Reliable?
NewsApril 10, 2025

From 'Dr. Google' to ChatGPT: Are the Internet's Answers to Health Questions Reliable?

A study published in the scientific journal ‘NPJ Digital Medicine’, part of the ‘Nature’ group, analyzes the degree of truthfulness of the responses obtained on the Internet regarding health-related queries, whether through conventional search engines or Artificial Intelligence tools.

Lorenzo Vaquero, Extraordinary Doctorate Award
NewsApril 8, 2025

Lorenzo Vaquero, Extraordinary Doctorate Award

The researcher graduated from CiTIUS expands the center's track record in the category of Sciences and Engineering 2022-2023.

David Robredo receives the award for the best academic record in his Computer Engineering class
NewsApril 3, 2025

David Robredo receives the award for the best academic record in his Computer Engineering class

The European University Miguel de Cervantes has awarded the CiTIUS researcher the 'Extraordinary Academic Achievement Award', which recognises the student with the highest GPA in the Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering during the 2023–2024 academic year.

The spinoff 'energHius', fifth business initiative of CiTIUS, officially begins its journey in the market
NewsMarch 25, 2025

The spinoff 'energHius', fifth business initiative of CiTIUS, officially begins its journey in the market

Established as a technology-based company specialized in the design of advanced circuits for micro-scale energy harvesting, the company emerges from research conducted at the center and reaffirms the capabilities of CiTIUS, USC, and Santiago de Compostela as hubs of innovation in a strategic field.

A world-pioneering project will explore the restorative use of virtual reality to alleviate death anxiety
NewsFebruary 12, 2025

A world-pioneering project will explore the restorative use of virtual reality to alleviate death anxiety

Researcher David Glowacki leads a new study from CiTIUS at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), funded by the philanthropic organisation ‘Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’ (USA). The foundation has selected the project of the centre’s ‘Intangible Realities Laboratory’ (IRL) among the 12 global initiatives it will fund in the field of neuroscience.

11F 2025: The CiTIUS offers a new edition of her workshops on science for children
NewsFebruary 7, 2025

11F 2025: The CiTIUS offers a new edition of her workshops on science for children

Researcher Eva Cernadas conducts two free-to-register websites that provide teaching materials for pre-school, primary and secondary school teachers.

The European Commission selects the HYBRIDS project to participate in a forum on digital democracy
NewsJanuary 30, 2025

The European Commission selects the HYBRIDS project to participate in a forum on digital democracy

The HYBRIDS Doctoral Network, coordinated by CiTIUS, has been invited to participate in a European Commission event after being recognized as ‘a model of good practice in the fight against disinformation'.

The Intelligence in Words: A Year of Success in Linguistic Technologies
NewsJanuary 29, 2025

The Intelligence in Words: A Year of Success in Linguistic Technologies

CiTIUS closes a brilliant 2024 in this area with the Best Paper Award at the fortieth edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN).

International Podium for CiTIUS' Explainable Artificial Intelligence
NewsJanuary 13, 2025

International Podium for CiTIUS' Explainable Artificial Intelligence

A team from the centre achieved third place in the ‘IEEE FLAME Technical Challenge 2024,’ a global competition organized by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, which rewards innovative works aimed at combining language models with computational intelligence techniques to develop AI systems capable of generating reliable explanations.