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 students from the Interactive Systems course will be giving demos of their final projects on Wednesday 30th April at 14:15 in B222, Exactum, Kumpula. Please feel free to come along and try out some of the demos. The students would greatly appreciate your feedback. The demos include: Haptic Glove Augmented Hands 3D Vs. AR displays AR navigation Emotional Interaction using the Oculus Rift
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The mother universities of HIIT and the Staff of HIIT have nominated their representatives into the new Board of HIIT for the term 1 April 2014 - 31 March 2018. The new Board is listed at http://www.hiit.fi/board where you will also find more information.
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The joint work between HIIT and Cambridge University recently made to ACM Computing Review. The published paper "Bridging the Gap between Internet Standardization and Networking Research" highlights the value of collaboration between academia and industry by describing the differences and similarities between how the two communities operate....
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The CS international blog has a new entry: Include a generic people interface
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Brains on Art -kollektiivin Brain Waves -näyttely esittelee sarjan teoksia, joissa aivotutkimuksen menetelmiä ja laskennallisia lähestymistapoja on valjastettu taiteen käyttöön. Näyttelyssä on esillä mm. aivorunogeneraattori, joka tuottaa käyttäjän aivosähkökäyrän pohjalta runoja. Teoksen runogeneraatioalgoritmeja on kehitetty laitoksen Discovery-tutkimusryhmässä. Tervetuloa näyttelyn avajaisiin 26.3...
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M.Sc. Kyunghyun Cho defended his doctoral dissertation Foundations and Advances in Deep Learning on 21 March 2014. The opponent was Professor Nando de Freitas (University of Oxford) and the custodian was Professor Juha Karhunen. For more information, see the dissertation release. .
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The Finnish science magazine Tiede publishes a feature article about SciNet - the prototype of a novel search engine that enables the user to direct her search interactively. SciNet is developed in collaboration with the research groups involved in the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT's research...
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The Finnish science magazine Tiede publishes a feature article about SciNet - the prototype of a novel search engine that enables the user to direct her search interactively. SciNet is developed in collaboration with the research groups involved in the HIIT-Wide Focus...
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On weekend 14.-16. March 2014, an international group of our students participated in SomeJam, a joint effort with Verke, the National Development Centre for Online Youth Work. They worked closely with young experts and enthusiasts of varying interests to create rapid software prototypes for common good. During the process students learned in addition to new technical skills, a design-based approach for software product development. What happened?...
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The Department of Information and Computer Science is looking for postdoctoral researchers. The deadline for the call is 6 April 2014. Further details regarding the positions and the application procedure are available at https://www.hiit.fi/node/2644.