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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Each of us at the Department of Computer Science can take a stand on the teaching of ICT, media literacy, and programming, which will be a new compulsory subject in schools. The school teachers are unsettled about it, because they have received no detailed national set of norms to plan their teaching or their grading. read more
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The post of Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki has become vacant since Professor Jukka Paakki announced that he will retire from the post on 1 January 2016. After receiving the preparation committee’s proposition, the dean of the Faculty of Science decided to propose to the rector that Professor Sasu Tarkoma be appointed the head of the Department of Computer Science from 1 January for the rest of...
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Researchers at Aalto University have succeeded in experimentally realizing metallic graphene nanoribbons that are only 5 carbon atoms wide. The results suggest that these extremely narrow and single-atom-thick ribbons could be used as metallic interconnects in future microprocessors. In their article published in Nature Communications, the research team demonstrated fabrication of the graphene nanoribbons (GNR) and measured their electronic structure. Graphene nanoribbons have been suggested...
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Semantic Finlex will bring legal and juridical data to everyone's reach as a Linked Open Data service. Eero Hyvönen and Jouni Tuominen from the award-winning team. The prizes of the biggest Nordic innovation competition in digital openness, the Open Finland Challenge, were awarded in Helsinki on 3rd of December. The category of Public Services & Active Citizens was won by Semantic Finlex, a group led by Eero Hyvönen, which will bring legal and juridical data to everyone's reach as...
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In the finals in Thailand in spring 2016, the students from the University of Helsinki will face the best teams in the world. read more
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In the finals in Thailand in spring 2016, the students from the University of Helsinki will face the best teams in the world. read more
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In the finals in Thailand in spring 2016, the students from the University of Helsinki will face the best teams in the world. read more
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Researchers have proved that both too much lying and complete honesty may damage social relationships. Examples of a network of one hundred agents and six hundred iterations. The white and black agents are honest, the light blue and dark green ones are liars, and the blue and the red ones have not yet decided. The width of the link describes its strength. Liars have a central role in building communities and keeping them together. This observation of lying came out in the modelling study...
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Understanding long-term activity of the Sun helps to predict its effects. During the space era, that is the past 50 years, the Sun has been unusually active. Yet during the last years the activity has been quite different compared to the rest of the ongoing space time. Except for the current solar cycle, when the solar activity has significantly weakened. The Sun has entered to the same activity level as hundred years ago. As at that time the methods to study the Sun were not as advanced as...
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Nokia foundations has been granting scholarships to support scientific development of information and telecommunications technologies for the last twenty years. This year three researchers of the Computer Science department of University of Helsinki have been awarded the Nokia scholarship: Ella Peltonen, Matti Nelimarkka, and Kumaripaba Athukorala. read more