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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Klaudia’s thesis introduced a new technique that uses widely available trusted hardware for protecting user’s passwords and other sensitive data on the web. Klaudia Krawiecka is the first woman to win the best Master thesis award in information security in Finland. Former Aalto Computer Science Master student Klaudia Krawiecka has won the national competition for the best information security thesis in Finland. The award ceremony was held on Tuesday 24th October in Helsinki. Klaudia’s work...
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Economics and Business and Space Science also made it to the top 100. Aalto improved its ranking in all of the US News Best Global Universities rankings it was included in. Computer Science ranked 47th globally. In this ranking, the top three universities in the field of Computer Science included the Tsinghua University, the University of Texas - Austin and the Nanyang Technological University. Out of...
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The objective of the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence is to make Finland a leading country in artificial intelligence research and its utilisation. The centre, which will launch its activities in early 2018, will bring together universities, companies, and the public sector. Photo: Aki-Pekka Sinikoski Aalto University and the University of Helsinki are in the process of establishing the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). A decision was made to establish the centre...
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A research team led by Prof. Jukka Corander and Dr. Nicholas Croucher has made a pioneering discovery about how bacterial populations evolve, which changes dramatically our view into the role of accessory genes in defining the fitness of bacteria. For further details see the news piece from Norwegian State Television and...
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M.Sc. Arto Hellas will defend his doctoral thesis Retention in Introductory Programming on Friday the 27th of October 2017 at 12 o'clock noon in the University of Helsinki Forest House Building, Hall 6 (Unioninkatu 40). His opponent is Professor Erkki Sutinen (University of Turku, Finland), and custos Professor Tommi Mikkonen (University of Helsinki). The defence will be held in Finnish. read more
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Faculty of Science invites applicants for a University lecturer position in computer science. The position pertains e.g. to the teaching of B.Sc. and M.Sc. level courses in Computer Science and curriculum development with special emphasis on scalable MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) techniques. The dead line for applications is Tuesday 31 October. Please submit your application via SAP HR https://saphr.it.helsinki.fi/irj/portal....
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Candidates for the two Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor positions in computer science (Distributed systems and networking with emphasis on Internet of Things (IoT)/Algorithms and machine learning) will give their teaching demonstrations on Wednesday 18 October at Exactum room C123. read more
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Research Day was jointly organized by the departments of Computer Science and Communications and Networking CS Research Day was held in Computer Science building on Thursday 12th October. This was the second time when the event took place. The key idea of the event is to familiarize current research conducted in the departments in an easily approachable manner. This year’s event was especially targeted for first year students, as it was closely linked to recently launched student-professor...
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The aim was to identify hate speech targeted at minorities and people in a vulnerable position. During the municipal elections in spring 2017, a group of researchers and practitioners specialising in computer science, media and communication implemented a hate speech identification campaign with the help of an algorithm based on machine learning. At the beginning of the campaign, the algorithm was taught to identify hate speech as diversely as possible, for example, based on the big data...
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The graduates will be top-level experts of digital society. The first majors are Data Science and Digital Systems and Design. Aalto University will launch a new Aalto Bachelor’s Programme in Science and Technology in English in the autumn of 2018. All Aalto University schools of engineering will be involved in the programme. In the new programme, all students complete the same basic studies with strong focus on mathematical and computational methods and robust information technology skills. In...