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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October will see Dr. Pawel Gawrychowski (Max Plank Institute for Informatik) and Dr. Yasuo Tabei (Tokyo Institute of Technoology) visit Genome Scale Algorithmics, a subgroup of HIIT Algorithmic Data Analysis programme, led by Professor Veli Makinen. Both Dr. Gawrychowski and Dr. Tabei will...
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The recent ACM MobiSys PhD workshop is a venue that provides a friendly and supportive environment for doctoral students to present and discuss their dissertation research both with their peers and with a panel of experienced researchers from academia and industry. Its principle can be highlighted as “By the Students & For the Students”, where the entire workshop is organized by doctoral students, including CFP, Panel...
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Would you like to hear how our high tech life affects the environment we live in? Then you are welcomed to join us on Tuesday, October 7th, at 12:30 in Exactum's auditorium CKK112 to discuss hot topics of green ICT. This event is in English. Program: 12:30 What is Green ICT and why does it matter? Welcoming words by Prof. Jussi Kangasharju, Department of Computer Science 12:40 Energy consumption of the Exactum Building Virpi Kuitto and...
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The Computer Science Department’s research has been recently featured two times on the Scientific American website. Blog titled: “Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/06/17/squiggly-lines-secure-smartphones/...
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The running time of a distributed algorithm is commonly studied as a function of two parameters: n is the number of nodes in the network, and Δ is the maximum degree of the network. For many computational problems, it is nowadays relatively well understood how the running time depends on n. However, the dependence on Δ is still very poorly understood. There are many classical graph problems for which the best algorithms have running times that are linear in Δ, but...
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Matti Nelimarkka from HIIT just presented early work on classifying online civic engagement tools in the Internet, Policy and Politics conference organized by the Oxford Internet Institute. This work was conducted together with researchers from UC Berkeley and developed from the California Report Card project....
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EU:n koodiviikkoa vietetään ympäri Eurooppaa 11.-17.10.2014. Myös Suomessa järjestetään koodaukseen liittyviä yleisötapahtumia, joissa ohjelmointiin on helppo päästä käsiksi. Onko koodaus kirosana? Tuntuuko siltä, että ohjelmointi pelkkänä ajatuksena, saati sitten opetuksen osana, aiheuttaa verenpaineen kohoamisen ja käsien vapinaa? Hätä ei ole tämän näköinen, sillä...
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Have you ever been worried about you mobile phone's or table's energy consumption? Do you need to charge your device every night, perhaps even in the middle of the day? It is generally known that large screens and continuous network connections eat our phones' battery faster than we really want. Our goal in the Carat project is to survey and analyze what else could be going bad in our phones' matters. Carat is a collaborative energy diagnosis project launched by the AMP Lab in the EECS...
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The Digital Content Communities group at HIIT, Aalto and the Communication Research Center at University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Science will examine how social media and traditional media interplay in the next Finnish Parliament elections in Finland. The aim is to combine big data approaches, such as network analysis, and qualitative methods, such as interviews and ethnography, in this research....
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The programming course MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) at the Department of Computer Science was elected one of the success stories at the Open Finland 2014 expo. Watch the video here (in finnish): http://youtu.be/OPKJv0VeZ9Q. Open Finland is a mass event focusing on the utilisation of open data, organised by the Prime Minister’s Office. “The aim of the event is to gain exposure to the opportunities provided by the use of open data, share...