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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On the recommendation of The Finnish Society for Computer Science (TKTS), The Finnish Information-Processing Research Foundation has awarded its dissertation reward 2013 to Ph.D. Jouni Sirén for his thesis ‘Compressed Full-Text Indexes for Highly Repetitive Collections’. The thesis was completed for the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. The thesis of Jouni Sirén studies efficient and compressed full-text indexes from the point of view...
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Ph.Lic. Satu Eloranta will defend her doctoral thesis Dynamic Aspects of Knowledge Bases on Thursday 27th of June 2013 at noon in the University of Helsinki Exactum Building, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b, Linus Torvalds Auditorium B123, 1st floor. Her opponent is Professor Antti Valmari (Tampere University of Technology) and custos Professor Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki). The defense will be held in Finnish. Dynamic Aspects of Knowledge Bases A knowledge base is considered a...
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President Tuula Teeri has appointed Professor Erkki Oja of the ICS department as an Aalto Distinguished Professor as of 1 August 2013. President Teeri has also invited Professor Oja to give the Aalto Address at the ceremony marking the start of Aalto University’s new academic year on 3 September 2013.
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Out of a total of 3329 applications, the evaluation panel of the European Research Council has chosen Petteri Kaski's project "Theory and Practice of Advanced Search and Enumeration (TAPEASE)" as one of the projects to be funded in the framework of ERC Starting Grants. Petteri Kaski is working at the ICS department as an Assistant Professor on the tenure-track career path. ERC Starting Grants aim to support talented young...
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The Academy of Finland has decided to fund two four-year projects led by professors working at the ICS department:- Rousu, Juho: "Metabolite identification through Algorithms and Machine Learning (MIDAS)" and- Tripakis, Stavros: "Compositional System Modeling with Interfaces (COSMOI)"The Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Academy of Finland granted altogether 31 million euros of funding for research projects. The council received a total of 436 proposals, of which...
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The CS international blog has a new entry: About the Union: Interview with Tiina Niklander
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The Finnish Society for Computer Science awarded its annual Master's thesis award to Orestis Kostakis of the ICS department for his thesis "Analyzing and comparing arrangements of temporal intervals". The award was presented at the Annual Computer Science...
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The Department of Information and Computer Science received a total of 60 applications to its two tenure track vacancies. The applicants represented 12 nationalities and the largest interest arose from Finland (18 applications) with several applications also from candidates from Belgium, Iran and Russia.
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Doctoral dissertation: Qi Yu, "Machine Learning for Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction" (Aalto CS News)
M.Sc. Yu Qi defended her doctoral dissertation Machine Learning for Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction on 24 May 2013. The opponent was Professor Christophe Biernacki from the Université Lille 1, France and the custodian was Professor Olli Simula. The dissertation is available online at http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2013/isbn9789526051871/isbn9789526051871.pdf. -
KUMPULA CAMPUS LIBRARY OPENING HOURS 3 June-30 August 2013 Mon-Fri 9-15.45, Sat closed Exceptions: Thu 13 June, the library will be closed at 15 o'clock Fri 21 June (Midsummer Eve) the library will not be open The opening hours of the Helsinki University Libraries on all campusesare available on the library's webseite, http://www.helsinki.fi/concrete5/en/services/opening-hours