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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More than 250 teams took part in the competition, and four of the top ten teams were from Finland. The Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC) was held simultaneously on Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 17 universities throughout the Nordic region. In NCPC teams of 1–3 members tried over a period of five hours to solve as many algorithmic programming problems as possible in a period of five hours. There were a total of 11 problems and the best...
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Detailed information: http://www.hiit.fi/node/4512 In this call, we wish to support new initiatives that support HIIT's mission. Meanwhile we have sufficient funds available this call now continously open till 7th of December with three cut off dates (Deadlines: 21st of October, 14th of November and 7th of December). Please note that the funding needs to be used before 31.12.2017 => money needs to be spent this year....
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Aalto's Chemical Engineering also ranked among the world's top one hundred universities. Aalto's Computer Science field continues its rise in the National Taiwan University (NTU) Ranking and placed 73rd this year. Aalto Chemical Engineering also remained among the world's top one hundred and Aalto's Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering programmes rank amongst the top 150. The NTU does not rank the business and arts fields, which are of great importance to Aalto....
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Five-year projects aim to tackle the challenges of uncertainty, optimization and dynamic data with new theoretical advances. Chalermsook's projects attempt to seek new interplay across multiple areas of algorithmics, such as approximation algorithms, online algorithms, exponential-time algorithms, and data structures. Photo: Lasse Lecklin Professor Parinya Chalermsook from Aalto University has received both Academy of Finland funding worth altogether almost 0.9 million euros and an ERC...
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The preliminary round of the Data Star competition is open for anyone, and you can participate online. Are you enthusiastic about programming/coding as a hobby? If your answer is yes, you should participate in the programming competition intended for comprehensive school and upper secondary school pupils. We are currently running a Data Star (Datatähti) informatics competition, and all comprehensive school and upper secondary school pupils in Finland are...
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The first annual Rajapinta unconference will be organized in Dipoli, Otakaari 24. The event is open to all interested in the study of digital society or digital methods for social sciences. Potential themes include using machine learning for social sciences, the design of digital systems used by...
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Success in the PACE parameterized computation competition for Korhonen, Berg, Järvisalo (UH CS News)
Tuukka Korhonen, Jeremias Berg, and Matti Järvisalo of the Constraint Reasoning and Optimization group have been awarded the second prize in the 2017 PACE Challenge (Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge), track B on exact approaches to the NP-hard minimum fill-in problem.... -
The annual MSc thesis award of the Finnish Society for Computer Science (Tietojenkäsittelytieteen seura in Finnish) for 2015-2016 is presented to MSc Paul Saikko for his thesis Re-implementing and Extending a Hybrid SAT-IP Approach to Maximum Satisfiability. ...
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The Tekes funded cross-disciplinary project utilizes big data of partner companies. Aalto University School of Business and the School of Science have launched a joint research project to study the impacts of content marketing on the behaviour of Business-to-Business (B2B) decision-making. The project examines different stages of the content marketing purchasing path and aims to forecast the behaviour by mechanical means. Tekes has granted Aalto University 500,000 euros for the two-year project...
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Aalto University researchers and students develop a new app for cross-cultural education targeted for health care professionals. Multidisciplinary COPE project has previously examined what kind of skills health care professionals need in the new era of digitalization, and what is the best practice in implementing eHealth services. As a collaboration of COPE’s digitalization and multicultural work packages a new development project has emerged. Its target is to build an application for educating...