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The fellowship is a recognition of her outstanding scientific work in cryptology. Professor Kaisa Nyberg is recognized for her fundamental contributions to the design and analysis of block ciphers, for contributions to mobile phone security, and for service to the International Association for Cryptologic Research, IACR. To understand the prestige of this appointment, many Turing Award Laureates, “Nobel winners of Computer Science”, can be found among the IACR Fellows. IACR Fellows serve as...
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New Directors for Silicon Valley and Helsinki Helsinki Node Director Marko Turpeinen has been selected as the Director for the EIT ICT Labs Silicon Valley Hub. He will start in this position on May 1st, 2015. Marko is already very familiar with USA and Silicon Valley as he graduated from MIT in 2000 and was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley during 2009-2010.EIT ICT Labs Nodes and their partners are already tightly connected with the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Our presence in USA builds on...
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The very latest advances in independent component analysis and machine learning Advances in Independent Component Analysis and Learning Machines (Elsevier), edited by Ella Bingham, Samuel Kaski, Jorma Laaksonen and Jouko Lampinen, is collected in honour of Professor Erkki Oja, one of the pioneers of Independent Component Analysis (ICA). The book reviews recent advances in the theory and application of ICA, as well as its influence on signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning,...
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Eemil Lagerspetz's PhD thesis, Collaborative Mobile Energy Awareness was awarded the University of Helsinki Excellent Dissertation Award on Wednesday 22.04.2015. The thesis uses large-scale collaborative data analysis to find energy bugs, applications that drain the battery, on Android and iOS smartphones....
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The winning thesis, "Game Structure in Knowledge Co-creation", deals with the role of game-like structures in the co-creation of knowled. As knowledge work has become more commonplace, the importance of models and methods connected to creating, refining and distributing knowledge has also increased. Hannula used a knowledge creation game developed in a project to examine how gamification can be utilised in planning services. The awards jury particularly lauded Hannula's open-minded...
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Fifteen science projects have been selected for a crowdfunding programme. The campaign is to be implemented in 2015. The crowdfunding campaign is to be organised by Mesenaatti with support from Kone Foundation. The campaign also aims at bringing science closer to people by giving the public at large the opportunity to give direct support to projects of their choosing. A Collective Crystal Ball: The Year 2030 The purpose of the project is to create methods of handling shared issues combining...
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Students, industry professionals, and various companies all met for the fourth time at this year's Aalto in the Game event. There's a buzz in the air at Aalto's Design Factory's game demo room. As Kim Valori lightly touches the screen of a tablet device, a little black bug nimbly follows his commands on its adventures through a dark landscape. 'The unique thing about our game is the way you move around', Valori explains. 'Generally-speaking, platform games are quite restricted. But in...
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Researchers from the Digital Content Communities and the Communication Research Center CRC are now happy after the end of elections and their massive data collection on social and traditional media activity related to election communication. Circa 750 000 Tweets have now been collected and ready for analysis. Researchers started to do some descriptive analysis to answer one of the most important question media has: were these now the first...
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Helsinki University Library is collecting feedback from users in order to improve its policy on acquisitions of materials. You can answer the survey at https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/60637/lomake.html until 4 May.
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This book describes the concept of a Software Defined Mobile Network (SDMN), which will impact the network architecture of current LTE (3GPP) networks. SDN will also open up new opportunities for traffic, resource and mobility management, as well as impose new challenges on network security. Therefore, the book addresses the main affected areas such as traffic, resource and mobility management, virtualized traffics transportation, network management, network security and techno economic...