Professor, ACM Member, ABET Program Evaluator, Accreditation Coordinator, CDIO Mentor, IT Forensic Expert, Researcher
After António Costa graduated in 1985, he became a researcher in INESC-Norte, the northern branch of a Portuguese private institute devoted to R&D on engineering systems and computers. During his stay in INESC-Norte and later INESC-Porto, he did mainly research and development on computer graphics hardware and software. In 1990, along with another fellow researcher, he received a creativity award for developing a high quality black/white graphics board powered by one of the first dedicated graphics processors (TMS340XX).
Between 1991 and 1995, he was responsible for INESC's participation in an European R&D project (in the scope of the Esprit Program with Siemens, Bull, etc) about geograph..