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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Staff mobility opportunities - Call for applications The University of Helsinki offers many opportunities for short term mobility for both academic and administrative staff. Applications for European universities in the Erasmus Teaching Mobility Programme (STA) are accepted till May 31, 2013 Erasmus teacher exchange (STA) info and instructions Bilateral Staff Exchange as well as Erasmus Staff Mobility (STT - administrative staff...
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Summer jobs in Computer Science research are waiting for students. Several salaried Research Assistant positions are available in a range of research projects. The application deadline is February 24th, 2013. For more information and details of the application procedure, see the complete call published at http://www.hiit.fi/node/2167
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The CS international blog has a new entry: Networking - One Year Away
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On Monday, 28 Jan, the department launched a new tradition of staff morning coffee. Dozens of staff members joined in the event to start their week together over a cup of coffee. An interesting discussion was initiated by the invited guest of the morning, Jaakko Haapasalo. Jaakko is Head of Studio at Rovio Entertainment Ltd, the game company known world-wide for the Angry Birds brand. In discussions with him, we learned a good deal about games as well as about brand building. Since Jaakko is a...
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Summer jobs in computer science research are waiting for students. Several salaried research assistant positions are available in a range of research projects. More information from the www-page: https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/node/76404
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Tietotekniikan tutkimuksen kesätyöpaikat odottavat opiskelijoita. Tarjolla on useita palkallisia kesätyöpaikkoja tutkimusavustajina erilaisissa tutkimusprojekteissa. Lisätietoja www-sivulta: https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/node/76403 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer jobs in computer science research are waiting for students. Several salaried research assistant...
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Partial orders have many useful applications in computer science. Professor Sasu Tarkoma and Dr. Weixiong Rao have recently published two journal articles that propose new partial order algorithms for enhancing subscriber privacy and query processing in distributed systems. The former has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and the latter by the World Wide Web Journal. "Partial orders have many interesting...
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FM Johannes Wettig will defend his doctoral thesis Probabilistic, Information-Theoretic Models for Etymological Alignment on Saturday 9th of February 2013 at noon in the University of Helsinki Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, Auditorium XIV (old part), 3rd floor. His opponent is Professor Erik Aurell (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) and custos Professor Petri Myllymäki (University of Helsinki). Probabilistic, Information-Theoretic Models for Etymological Alignment...
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As tradition has it, the year 2012 diplomas for permanent and junior teacher, senior and junior researcher, and person of the year were awarded at the department's Christmas coffee on 19 December 2012. In addition to the diplomas, they received a monetary reward. <!--break--> Permanent teacher of the year is University Lecturer Lea Kutvonen. She is excellent in personal guidance. Despite heavy traffic and active research work, there is always a sense of presence and focus on the...
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The Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University is recruiting a substantial number of summer interns. The application deadline is January 31, 2013. For more information and details of the application procedure, see the complete call published at http://dept.ics.aalto.fi/calls/summer2013/.