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 Discovery Research Group of Prof. Hannu Toivonen has released a novel musical app for iPhone, Musicreatures. read more
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Aalto Distinguished Professor Erkki Oja has served Aalto University and its predecessor the Helsinki University of Technology for more than 20 years, and during that time directed Centres of Excellence and supervised many talented researchers. He is now retiring at the end of January. Ella Bingham, Samuel Kaski, Jouko Lampinen and Jorma Laaksonen have edited a jubilee book for Erkki Oja: "Advances in Independent Component Analysis and Learning Machines". The book will be published within a few...
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Erkki Oja has directed the Centres of Excellences and supervised many talented researchers for 15 years.
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The SciNet search engine, developed at HIIT, outperforms current ones on complicated search tasks going beyond keyword lookups. It is based on interactive intent modelling, which combines HCI and machine learning. Communications of the ACM article: Tuukka Ruotsalo, Giulio Jacucci, Petri Myllymäki, Samuel Kaski: Interactive Intent Modeling: Information Discovery Beyond Search. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 58 No. 1, Pages 86-92. ...
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Summer jobs in computer science research are waiting for students. Several salaried research assistant positions are available in a range of research projects. There are jobs available for computer science and information technology students. In some projects there are also jobs available for students of bioinformatics, or mathematics. The research assistants are needed from May to September. Contracts can also be made for a shorter period. Jobs are available at: ...
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A premier of computationally created music took place in the Science Forum (Tieteen päivät) 2015, with contributions from the Discovery research group of Prof. Hannu Toivonen. Koodike is a cut-and-paste piece of music, the material of which was composed by the computer (according to rules specified by composer Lotta Wennäkoski) and then stitched together to a final composition by Lotta. A video recording of the premier on 10...
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The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT) is a joint initiative by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities within this area in Finland. The network involves at present 55 professors and over 200 doctoral students, and the participating units graduate altogether more than 40 new doctors each year. The participating units of HICT have currently 20 fully funded positions available for exceptional doctoral...
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The article Overview and Analysis of the SAT Challenge 2012 Solver Competition by Adrian Balint (Ulm University, Germany), Anton Belov (University College Dublin, Ireland), Matti Järvisalo (University of Helsinki and HIIT), and Carsten Sinz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) has been accepted for publication in Artificial Intelligence. Add to highlights: Importance: NormalShow in: CoSCo news
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M.Sc. Xi Chen defended her doctoral dissertation Real-time Action Recognition for RGB-D and Motion Capture Data on 16 January 2015. The opponent was Research Director, Dr. Ivan Laptev from INRIA, France and the custodian was Prof. Erkki Oja. The dissertation is available online at https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/14715
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Two premiers of computationally created music took place in the Science Forum (Tieteen päivät) 2015, both with contributions from the Discovery research group of Prof. Hannu Toivonen. read more