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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Exact Greenhouse (2015) was a seven week project course where students built smart Internet of Things devices to help maintaining living plants located at a rooftop greenhouse. read more
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The Annual Report of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT has again appeared. Please take a look at: https://www.hiit.fi/annualreports or grab a copy in Otaniemi at T building's 3rd floor print spot at A corridor OIH at HIIT coffee lounge table and bookshelf Kumpula Exactum at 3rd floor coffee lounge table HIIT is a strategic partnership of Aalto University and the...
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Ministry of Transport and Communications and MyData present a framework, principles, and a model for a human-centric approach to the managing and processing of personal information. The approach – defined as MyData – is based on the right of individuals to access the data collected about them. The core idea is that individuals should be in control...
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DeepBeat, an algorithm for rap lyrics generation, outperforms top human rappers by 21 % in terms of length and frequency of the rhymes in the lyrics. The rapping algorithm was quantitatively evaluated with two measures. First, the prediction performance was evaluated by measuring how well the algorithm predicts the next line of an existing rap song. This it can do surprisingly well. - An 82% accuracy was achieved for separating the true next line from a randomly chosen...
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Professor Hannu Toivonen is the Program Chair of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), to be held in Park City, Utah, June 29 - July 2. Computational Creativity is the art, science, philosophy and engineering of computational systems which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviours that unbiased observers would deem to be creative. The ICCC...
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Professor Hannu Toivonen is the Program Chair of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), to be held in Park City, Utah, June 29 - July 2. read more
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PhD student Anna Kuosmanen was chosen as one of the scholars for the Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities 2015 (full list of winners can be found at http://www.google.com/studentswithdisabilities-europe/winners.html). Google Scholarships are given to students who have shown strong&nb read more
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Professor Samuel Kaski was selected as an Academy Professor. Kaski works at the department of Computer Science in Aalto University, and he is also the director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research (COIN) and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). Samuel Kaski develops computational methods for interactive multi-source data analysis and machine learning....
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We performed a study to investigate the effect of accessibility by public transport on housing prices in Helsinki. Specifically, we collected house pricing data from Oikotie.fi, an online real-estate marketplace for Finland. Moreover, we measured accessibility for individual houses as travel time by public transport from a house to centers of interest in the city. Our study shows that taking into account accessibility on top of...
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The Academy of Finland has decided to fund eight new research posts as Academy Professor. One of them works at the School of Science. Samuel Kaski is Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. He also directs the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research COIN. Samuel Kaski develops computational methods for interactive multi-source data analysis and machine learning. They will be applied first to personalised...