This news feed aggregates content from the Research News feeds from the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University Department of Computer Science, and the University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science.
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Students created a mobile game that’s played on a real map of the players’ surroundings. They collect phone sensor data from the environment with a magic wand and use it in battles. In the yearly Software Project course of the Department of Computer Science students pick an interesting project from options proposed by companies or by Aalto University. The Balance of Magic mobile game started from the students’ desire to do something exceptional in game development. They wanted to incorporate...
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What do the personal networks of Alvar Aalto, Jean Sibelius or Eliel Saarinen look like and how do they intertwine? The application is based on over 13 000 biographies. The BiographySampo is a data service that enables anyone to easily browse and study the information in biographies and related data sources. The application is based on more than 13 000 short biographies in the National Biography of the Finnish Literature Society and other databases. The material has been enriched with...
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Assistant Professor Chris Brzuska feels very lucky to be able to interact with great people in mathematics and computer science in a meaningful way, every single day. What kind of research do you do? In April 2018, I started as an Assistant Professor at both the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis and the Department of Computer Science. My research is about cryptography and its connections to IT security, verification, complexity theory, algorithms, and discrete mathematics. For...
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Researchers find AI-generated reviews and comments pose a significant threat to consumers, but machine learning can help detect the fakes. Sites like TripAdvisor, Yelp and Amazon display user reviews of products and services. Consumers take heed: nine out of ten people read these peer reviews and trust what they see. In fact, up to 40% of users decide to make a purchase based on only a couple of reviews, and great reviews make people spend 30% more on their purchases. Yet not all reviews are...
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Our paper at the 3rd Conference on Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries received the Best Paper award and the Open Science award. Thanks to all our team members and collaborators at home and abroad! ...
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State-of-the-art detectors that screen out online hate speech can be easily duped by humans, shows new study. Hateful text and comments are an ever-increasing problem in online environments, yet addressing the rampant issue relies on being able to identify toxic content. A new study by the Aalto University Secure Systems research group has discovered weaknesses in many machine learning detectors currently used to recognize and keep hate speech at bay. Many...
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Prediction models developed by Marttinen can be used to assess the new capitation model included in the health and social services reform. What type of research do you do? I study and develop machine-learning methods related to medicine and biology. I cooperate extensively with different partners, but at the same time, my method development work is independent. Together with the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), I develop analytical methods for predicting different population...
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A Finnish research group from the University of Turku, University of Tampere and Aalto University has mapped the organisation of human conscious feelings and found them to cluster into five major categories: positive emotions, negative emotions, cognitive functions, somatic states, and illnesses. Humans constantly experience an ever-changing stream of subjective feelings that is only interrupted during sleep and deep unconsciousness. Finnish researchers show how the subjective feelings map into...
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The tools have been used to improve the safety of drug tests for children, and to understand the cosmos through galaxy clusters. In August, researchers from Aalto University's Department of Computer Science will host three conferences focusing on AI and ICT tools used in large corporations all over the world. Some of the methods have been used, for example, in Facebook's forecasting tool Prophet. StanCon 2018, held 29–31 August,...
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Communication channels between different parts and pieces of computer software are prone to security breaches. Anyone with access to a shared computer can attack or involuntarily subject it to security breaches. Researchers from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki have found over ten computer security-critical applications that are vulnerable to insider attacks. Most of the vulnerabilities were found in password managers used by millions of people to store their login credentials....