Helsinki ICT Research Events

Prof. Perttu Hamalainen, Aalto University

The talk outlines our current research activities related to human movement, including novel tools for procedural character animation, and digitally augmented exercise environments, e.g., a Kinect platformer game played on a real trampoline. On the technical side, the work deals with human motion capture and synthesis using computer vision, physics simulation, stochastic...

HIIT Otaniemi Seminar, Monday Feb 25th, 13:15
Location: Computer Science Building, T2

Speaker: Perttu Hämäläinen
Host:    Antti Ukkonen

Title: Human movement, character animation, and exercise environments

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The talk outlines our current research activities related to human movement,...

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Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, was built by a team of IBM researchers who set out to accomplish a grand challenge––build a computing system that rivals a human’s ability to answer questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence. The quiz show Jeopardy! provided the ultimate test of this...

Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology (https://www.hiit.fi/HelsinkiITLectures) continues with an invited lecture from Dr. Eric W. Brown (IBM Research, USA), entitled

"Watson: The Jeopardy! Challenge and...

Dr. Marija Mitrovic, Aalto University

Statistical physics provides a conceptual framework for studying large-scale social phenomena. Elections represent a valuable area for quantitative study of human behavior. In proportional elections with open lists, the performance of the candidates within the same party list, has the same distribution regardless of the country and the year of the election. The study of election data sets from different...

M.Sc. Joni Pajarinen will defend his doctoral dissertation Planning under uncertainty for large-scale problems with applications to wireless networking (Uudet yleiset päätöksentekomenetelmät tehostavat langatonta tiedonsiirtoa) on 7 February 2013 in lecture hall T2 (Computer Science building). The opponent is Dr. Francois Charpillet, National Institute of Research in Automatics and Computer Science (INRIA), France. The custodian is Prof. Erkki Oja.

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Abstract: Mapping and alignment of sequencing reads against reference sequences is a crucial step in many genome analysis pipelines [1]. Due to the continuous growth in sequencing data, the development of fast and accurate read mapping algorithms has received much attention in recent years. However, for historical reasons most algorithms focus on short reads and are not...