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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Jukka Suomela has been elected as a member for the EATCS council. EATCS is the most important European scientific association in Theoretical Computer Science, organizing e.g. the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) conference. https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/council Jukka Suomela's statement for EATCS Council Elections 2015. Add to...
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Pitch Training for ICT Research The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT) is a collaborative doctoral education network coordinated by HIIT, and hosted jointly by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The network serves as a collaboration platform for doctoral education combining all the relevant subfields of computer science and information technology at Aalto University and the...
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Tekniikan päivät Tieto on valtaa. Mutta miten sitä käytetään? Valtakunnallisilla Tekniikan päivillä tieteen ja teknologian asiantuntijat valottavat kysymystä. Katso Tekniikan päivien tapahtumat http://tekniikanpaivat.fi Big & data: Isot aineistot esillä Tekniikan päivill...
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Aalto researchers have developed a method for quantifying controversies in social media. The method, developed by doctoral student Kiran Garimella and his colleagues, aims to help users understand their news diet and enrich their online news consumption. The study has been featured in various technology blogs, such as MIT Technology Review and...
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Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT is a joint research institute of Aalto University and the University of Helsinki for basic and applied research on information technology. It was founded in 1999 by a contract of the two mother universities. In October 2015, the contract was renewed, securing HIIT's status and basic funding for future years. We are happy that the universities continue to...
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Collaborative Networking (CoNe) group researchers got the best paper award at 2nd ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2015), one of the most prestigious venues for ICN research. The article entitled Pro-Diluvian: Understanding Scoped-Flooding for Content Discovery in ICN is lead by Liang Wang - a recent PhD graduate from CoNe research group, and is the outcome of collaboration with Suzan Bayhan and Jussi Kangasharju from...
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The aim of this SMBE workshop is to bring together leading experts in the fields of bacterial genomics, evolution, population biology, network analysis and modelling to foster communication and development of research ideas. The workshop will also be ideal for PhD students, post docs and other young scientists to gain in-depth knowledge of the multiple thematic challenges within this topic, such that they can contribute to the forefront research activity. Understanding how pathogens evolve is...
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The study uncovered several vulnerabilities using monitoring of mobile communications and setting up fake base stations in laboratory environments. 4G was thought to provide strong privacy and availability guarantees for mobile users, assuming that for instance tracking the user movement would be impossible or ineffective. – We built a 4G fake base station and showed that most popular phones can be tricked into giving up location information or degrading their service level, states...