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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The team from the University of Helsinki, Game of Nolife, reached 4th place in the NWERC programming competition in Linköping on the 28-30 November. The team included students Otte Heinävaara, Olli Hirviniemi, and Topi Talvitie. read more
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HIIT / University of Helsinki and Helsinki Region Transport (HSL) collaborated in a large-scale trial in October 2014. More than 400 volunteers participated in testing next-generation journey planning tools at Helsinki metropolitan area. These tools included mobile and web-based applications for fully multi-modal journey planning (public, private, and shared transportation modes) with additional features such as gamification to encourage more eco-friendly mobility. As key results, people...
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The 3rd International Workhop of Symbiotic Interaction was held in Helsinki chaired by Prof Giulio Jacucci from HIIT. The workshop gathered more than 50 participants from Europe and US and proceedings are published by Springer. The workshop was opened by the greetings of the Ambassador of Italy in Finalnd His Excellency Giorgio Visetti on te 30th of October. The program started with teh Keynote of Prof David Kirsh of UC San Diego on Contextual Robotics and closed by the keynote of Prof Rod...
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The CS international blog has a new entry. Please check out the story here: Assembling the Genomic Puzzle of a Butterfly by Leena Salmela
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The leading global data science conference, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, will open in four weeks in Shenzhen, China. read more
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Our large research project on health related My Data has published its web pages: http://www.digitalhealthrevolution.fi/ The Tekes funded strategic initiative focuses on the scientific, economic, ethical, societal, legal and political aspects of personal health data in order to increase individual health capability, related business and societal aims. The revolutionary idea proposed in the program is that all data is health-...
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On 18 November, YLE (Finnish National TV) programme Prisma Studio features work by HIIT researchers (Michiel Sovijärvi-Spapé, Imtiaj Ahmed & Ville Harjunen) to explain the social and psychophysiological science behind electronic sports. Add to highlights:
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Beddit Ltd is a startup developing sleep analysis products and services. Much of the core data analysis technology for sleep analysis was developed in Joonas Paalasmaa's PhD thesis at the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, in the Discovery Research Group of Prof. Hannu Toivonen,. Today and tomorrow, Beddit is present in the major startup conference Slush, and for a good reason: read more
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M.Sc. Eemil Lagerspetz will defend his doctoral thesis Collaborative Mobile Energy Awareness on Monday the 24th of November 2014 at noon in the University of Helsinki Chemicum Building, room A129 (A.I. Virtasen aukio 1). HIs opponent is Professor Sumi Helal (University of Florida, USA) and custos Professor Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki). The defense will be held in English. Collaborative Mobile Energy Awareness We have created a mobile energy measurement application and gathered...
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Together with research teams in Tsinghua University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Professor Sasu Tarkoma of HIIT (deputy head of UH computer science department, director of NODES research group) organized a successful workshop on cloud and mobile...