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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Department of Computer Science's Research for Agile Education -group has been awarded by Benjamin J. Dasher prize. The 2014 award was granted for the best paper and presentation at the Frontiers in Education (FIE) -conference held in 2013. FIE is the largest conference of educational domain, that gathers over 600 yearly participants. Our department's paper competed against over 400 other articles. The paper was written by Hansi Keijonen, Jaakko Kurhila and Arto Vihavainen....
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Prof. Hannu Toivonen of HIIT and University of Helsinki is Program Chair of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2014, the world's premier research conference in data mining. The conference will be held in Shenzhen, China, on December 14-17, 2014. The call for participation is now open. Add to highlights: Read More URL: http://icdm2014.sfu.ca/home.htmlHighlight image:
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Professor Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki) was made Honorary Doctor of Technology at Aalto University’s Conferment Ceremony 10 October 2014. Read more on SCI News page.
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M.Sc. Emil Eirola defended his doctoral dissertation Machine learning methods for incomplete data and variable selection on 17 October 2014. The opponent was Prof. Fabrice Rossi from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France and the custodian was Prof. Juha Karhunen. The dissertation is available online at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5871-9.
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HIIT researcher Aaron Yi DING, supervised by Professor Sasu Tarkoma and senior researcher Markku Kojo, is visiting Columbia University in New York USA, from September to December 2014. During his visit, Aaron is hosted by Professor Henning Schulzrinne to work...
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Arto Vihavainen (with Petri Ihantola and Juha Sorva from Aalto University) received ACM SIGITE 2014 Best Paper Award for their work on Automatically Detectable Indicators of Programming Assignment Difficulty. The work is based on our department's MOOC and its TestMyCode engine that provides ample data for analytics. Arto has amazing track-record for ACM SIGITE; he has received...
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Computational creativity, in particular computational poetry, is currently being exhibited in an art installation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014. The installation builds on the P.O.Eticus-Apparatus poetry creation engine developed in the Discovery research group by Jukka Toivanen. Jukka is also a member of the art collective Brains on Art that produced this installation which uses the visitor's brain waves as inspiration when writing a...
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Grand Opening of Interaction Lab by Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group Interaction Lab is initiated and founded by Ubiquitous Interaction research group in 2014 for providing a space where novel interaction in between human, computer, and the physical environment can be developed and experimented. On the 24th Oct. 2014, the door of Interaction Lab was officially opened to the public after the grand opening ceremony. Unlike in ordinary Friday afternoons, the public was able to...
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International exhibition of Brain Poetry in Frankfurt Book Fair Computational creativity, in particular computational poetry, is currently being exhibited in an art installation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014. The installation builds on the P.O.Eticus-Apparatus poetry creation engine developed in the Discovery research group by Jukka Toivanen. Jukka is also a member of the art collective Brains on Art that produced this installation which...
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New algorithms are presented for the problem of multiple string matching of gapped patterns, where a gapped pattern is a sequence of strings such that there is a gap of fixed length between each two consecutive strings. The problem has applications in the discovery of transcription factor binding sites in DNA sequences when using generalized versions of the Position Weight Matrix model to describe transcription factor specificities. Existing algorithms are worst-case efficient but not practical...