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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Alexander Derek-Rein, research assistant in the Software Systems Engineering Research Group, achieved the third prize in the category “World Citizenship” at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Germany finals. The team competed with their Windows 8 app “Energy Inspector” which yields to reduce people’s energy consumption. The idea was driven by the assumption that people make smarter choices in case they have more and better information...
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The general assembly of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters invited in its meeting 12.4.2013 professors Ilkka Niemelä and Pekka Orponen of the ICS department to join the association's membership.
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MOOCS are beginning to take off in higher education across Europe. Read the article: First MOOCs for Denmark, European universities sign up University World News, 21 Apr 2013:
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M.Sc. (Tech.) Antti Hyttinen will defend his doctoral thesis Discovering Causal Relations in the Presence of Latent Confounders on Wednesday 8th of May 2013 at noon in the University of Helsinki Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, Auditorium XII (old part), 3rd floor. His opponent is Associate Professor Ioannis Tsamardinos (University of Crete, ICS-FORTH, Greece) and custos Professor Jyrki Kivinen (University of Helsinki). The defense will be held in English. Discovering Causal Relations in the...
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Pasi Sarolahti took his Master’s degree at the Helsinki University Department of Computer Sciencein 2001, and his doctoral degree at the same department in 2007. His dissertation examined TCP telecommunications in mobile devices. Sarolahti worked at the Nokia Research Center 2002-2010 designing and implementing telecommunications architectures and protocols for Nokia devices, as well as heading the Future Internet research group that focused on designing Internet communication...
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The positions are open to outstanding individuals who hold a doctorate and have excellent potential for a successful scientific career. Candidates in the areas of machine learning and data analysis are especially welcome. The closing date of the call is May 20, 2013. Detailed information about the positions, as well as the application process and its requirements, is provided at http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/jobs/...
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The CS international blog has a new entry: Interview Series with Research Group Leaders - Giulio Jacucci
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The Doctoral Programme Committee of the School of Science honours Dr. Billy Brumley for one of the three best doctoral dissertations in 2012. Prof. Kaisa Nyberg was his supervisor.
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James Cussens is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Computer Science at the University of York, UK. He works on machine learning, particularly Bayesian statistics, probabilistic graphical models and statistical relational learning. He is also a member of the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis and is involved in interdisciplinary research including philosophy, statistical genetics, discrete optimisation and toxicology. He received his PhD in Philosophy of Science from King's College,...
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HIIT researchers Dorota Głowacka, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Ksenia Konyushkova, Kumaripaba Athukorala, Samuel Kaski and Giulio Jacucci received a best paper award at International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2013. In the paper, titled "Directingexploratory search: reinforcement learning from user interactions with keywords,"they present an interactive information...