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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The CS international blog has a new entry. Please check out the story here: Summer Trip to Porvoo, 14 August 2015 This photo is contributed by Frans Ojala.
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For three weeks in July Travis Gagie visited the bioinformatics research group at Illumina Cambridge Ltd, the UK branch of the the world's leading manufacturer of DNA sequencing machines. Add to highlights: Importance: NormalShow in: HIIT news
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The Post-Doc will work on the Nordforsk funded project ActivABLES: Tangible Interaction to Support Effective and Usable Stroke Rehabilitation at Home. In HCI we are going places, with the establishment of HCI-Helsinki, bringing together internationally leading researchers across both Aalto and Helsinki UniversityThe Department of Computer Science at the Aalto University School of Science is presently looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Tangible Ubiquitous Computing...
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The Wired magazine lists in its September 2015 issue Helsinki's 10 hottest startups. Among them is Beddit, a company whose unique sleep analysis software was developed in the PhD work of Joonas Paalasmaa at the Department of Computer Science. From Wired: read more
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Dr. techn. Alex Jung has been appointed Assistant Professor of the Computer Science Department as of August 1, 2015 for a five year period. Alex Jung's research revolves around sparse models and machine learning for big data with a focus on trade-offs between computational as well as communication complexity on one hand, and the learning performance on the other hand. In particular, he is interested in the efficient and distributed...
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The aim of the bIoTope project, coordinated at the Computer Science Department, is to help citizens to optimize their choices. The EU supported project will last for three years. Its goal is to open now closed and separated information systems that in general are unaccessible. It is planned that on top of these systems will be built new Systems-of-Systems, which will help citizens to optimize their choices. - For instance in cars Systems-of-Systems include information from embedded...
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Aalto Science Institute helps the departments of Aalto School of Science find international interns for the summer. At the beginning of this year, the three-year-old Aalto Science Institute, or AScI, was provided with a new governance model. This summer was already the fourth time that the Aalto Science Institute, or AScI, has helped the departments of the School of Science find international interns for the summer. 'The programme has been very successful, and the number of applicants has...
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The Cegartix v0.4 system has won two of the three competition tracks it participated in at the 2015 International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA 2015), and placed second in the third track. The system is based on joint work by Matti Järvisalo and Johannes...
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Prof. Martin Milanič from the University of Primorska, in Koper, Slovenia will visit the Genome-Scale Algorithmics group (a division of HIIT's Algorithmic Data Analysis subprogram and of the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki) between 31 August and 4 September. Prof. Milanič's field of expertise is in discrete...
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The CS international blog has a new entry. Please check out the story here: Lessons Learnt from My First Journal Publication by Kumaripaba Athukorala