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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HIIT researchers Dorota Głowacka, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Ksenia Konyushkova, Kumaripaba Athukorala, Samuel Kaski and Giulio Jacucci received a best paper award at International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2013. In the paper, titled "Directing exploratory search: reinforcement learning from user interactions with keywords," they present an interactive...
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Espoo, Finland, July 3—5, 2013 The SAT/SMT Summer School aims at providing graduate students and researchers from universities and industry with a comprehensive overview of research and methodology in satisfiability testing(SAT) and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). The lectures cover the foundational and practical aspects of SAT and SMT technologies and their applications. The third edition follows the schools that took place at MIT (...
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My name is Tomi Männistö. I was born in Tampere, Finland where I also did my Master’s studies in Tampere University of Technology. Thereafter, I moved to Helsinki area, worked a while in a software company, but dreamt of doing some research and doctoral studies. As the opportunity opened, I started in a research project in Helsinki University of Technology. After my doctoral thesis, I spent a post doc year in...
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The March 2013 issue of the Communications of the ACM magazine features a review article by Professor Fedor V. Fomin (Institutt for Informatikk, University of Bergen) and Academy Research Fellow Petteri Kaski (Department of Information and Computer Science, Aalto University) on recent positive surprises in exact exponential-time algorithmics. Communications of the ACM is the flagship publication of...
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According to a recent study by HIIT and UC Berkeley researchers, fear of owing a debt of gratitude and a reluctance to ask for help are slowing the success of online services that facilitate joint use, borrowing and exchange of services. People who engage in exchange activities were not as concerned about becoming the target of unfair accusations about being a ‘free rider’. Helsinki Institute of Information Technology HIIT researchers Airi Lampinen and Vilma...
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The Department of Information and Computer Science invites applications for postdoctoral researchers in several areas of computing research. The closing date for applications is March 25, 2013. Further details available at http://dept.ics.aalto.fi/calls/postdocs2013/.
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Genome-scale algorithmics research group at the Department of Computer Science co-organizes Variathon challenge, where high-throughput sequencing -based genotype variant calling methods are evaluated on accuracy and efficiency. This way of predicting genotype variants is nowadays almost a routine task in bio(medicine) laboratories, and any improvements in accuracy and efficiency are of wide...
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The CS international blog has a new entry: Hackathon at Facebook: Experiences from Software Factory's visit to San Francisco
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The Department of Computer Science is looking for a computer science University Lecturer with sub-field in computational data analysis: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/node/76508
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Phil.Lic. Toni Ruokolainen will defend his doctoral thesis A Model-Driven Approach to Service Ecosystem Engineering on Friday 22nd of February 2013 at noon in the University of Helsinki Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, Auditorium XIV (old part), 3rd floor. His opponent is Associate Professor Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente, Netherlands) and custos Professor Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki). A Model-Driven Approach to Service Ecosystem Engineering Societies world-wide are...