Arlindo Manuel Limede de Oliveira (born 4 June 1963) is a Portuguese academic, researcher and writer. He is author of more than 150 scientific articles and papers in conferences,^[1] and three books: Computer Architecture (co-authored with Guilherme Arroz and José Monteiro, published by World Scientific and IST Press),^[2][3] The Digital Mind (published by MIT Press and IST Press),^[4][5] and Inteligência Artificial (published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos).^[6]

Oliveira obtained his engineering degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) and his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley.^[7] He is a senior member of the IEEE and the Portuguese Academy of Engineering,^[8][9] a notable alumnus of the University of Lisbon and, between 2015 and 2018, the Head of the Portuguese node^[10] of ELIXIR.^[11]

He was director of INESC-ID between 2000 and 2009, and president of the Instituto Superior Técnico between January 2012 and December 2019. He is currently the president of INESC.^[12]

Author

• 2019 - Inteligência Artificial, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, ISBN 978-989-8943-30-9 (in Portuguese)^[13]
• 2017 - The Digital Mind: How Science is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262535236^[14]

Co-author

• 2018 - Computer Architecture: Digital Circuits to Microprocessors (co-authored with Guilherme Arroz and José Monteiro), World Scientific, ISBN 978-981-122-133-0 (originally published in Portuguese with the title Arquitectura de Computadores: Dos Sistemas Digitais aos Microprocessadores, by IST Press, in 2007)^[15][16]