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: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/blog/computational-creativity-now by Anna Kantosalo
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M.Sc. He Zhang defended his doctoral dissertation Advances in Nonnegative Matrix Decomposition with Application to Cluster Analysis on 19 September 2014. The opponent was Associate Professor Ali Taylan Cemgil from the Bogazici University, Turkey. The custodian was Professor Erkki Oja. The dissertation is available at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5829-0.
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Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities in Finland within computer science and information technology, are looking for Postdoctoral Researchers and Research Fellows. The deadline for the call is 12 October 2014. Further details regarding the positions and the application procedure are available at http://www.hiit.fi/node/2856.
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Polina Rozenshtein received the best student paper award in ECML PKDD 2014, for the paper "Discovering dynamic communities in interaction networks", co-authored with Nikolaj Tatti and Aristides Gionis. https://twitter.com/ECMLPKDD/status/511558738613116928/photo/1
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Professor Eero Hyvönen from Aalto University has been granted the State Award for Public Information in recognition of his work in developing Finnish semantic web. The FinnONTO ja Linked Data Finland projects lead by Hyvärinen have been active since 2003 also in the Department of Computer Science at University of Helsinki. interview of professor Hyvönen...
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The NODES research group at the University of Helsinki’s Department of Computer Science has published a live graph comparing the fragmentation and power consumption of Android and iOS devices. The visualisation employs more than two terabytes of data extracted from the Carat application, which has been downloaded onto more than 750,000 devices. The visualisation developed in the Carat project illustrates the statistics on the fragmentation of different Android and iOS platforms as...
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The Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Academy of Finland has awarded one of its highly competitive three-year Postdoctoral Researcher grants to Dr. Jukka Intosalmi of the ICS department. Dr. Intosalmi will begin in his new position on 1 January 2015.
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M.Sc. Joanna Bergström-Lehtovirta defended her doctoral dissertation The Effects on Mobility on Mobile Input on 30 August 2014. The opponent was Professor Kasper Hornbak from the University of Copenhagen and the custodian was Professor Samuel Kaski. The dissertation is available online at https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/13790.
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M.Sc. Juuso Parkkinen defended his doctoral dissertation Probabilistic components of molecular interactions and drug responses on 29 August 2014. The opponent was Professor Yoshihiro Yamanishi from the Kyushu University, Japan and the custodian was Professor Samuel Kaski. The dissertation is available online at https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/13631.
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The CS international blog has a new entry. Please check out the story here: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/blog/experience-egi-community-forum-2014 by Juhani Toivonen and Lirim Osmani