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 IoT Sentinel poster+demo combination received the Best Poster award at IEEE ICDCS 2017. The award is for the best poster chosen from among 42 posters and 16 poster+demo combinations. IEEE ICDCS is a well-established (37 years) top conference in distributed systems (JuFo 2). The work is a collaboration between Aalto University, TU Darmstadt, and University of Helsinki. Link to poster/demo article....
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Machine learning methods will be tested in arable farming, greenhouse cultivation and plant breeding. Tekes has granted approximately 0.5 million euros to an Aalto University pilot project aiming at developing machine learning methods that will tackle the challenges facing agriculture. The project will finish by the end of 2018. Machine learning has rarely been applied to the challenges in primary production. However, it has been estimated that as the human population grows, in 2050 the demand...
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The department of Computer Science was successful in the recent call of the Academy of Finland. Three four-year projects funded by the Academy will run from 9/2017 until 8/2021. The principal investigators of the projects are Professor Veli Mäkinen and Associate Professors Jiaheng Lu and Teemu Roos, respectively. read more
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In face-to-face digital interaction, the objective is to share information about oneself primarily outside social media. This Aalto University study explored augmented reality interactions between strangers in the same space using an HMD (Head Mounted Display). There were 23 participants in 6 multi-party gatherings each involving 3 to 5 individuals, as the previous studies have been focused on the interaction between two parties. Interaction HMDs were used to visualise the digital selfs of the...
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The official launch of the book will be on June 16, 2017 in Turku. The press release is below. (Communicated via Prof. Ion Petre.) Book launch: Jukka Paakki - “Arto Salomaa: Äijän Näköinen Matemaatikko” read more
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*****CALL IS CLOSED****** HIIT Call for Proposals to Support the Helsinki ICT Community In this call, we wish to support new initiatives that support HIIT's mission. Note that the application deadline was June 30, and the funding of this call needs to be used in 2017, but we plan to open new calls of this type also in the future, and perhaps even have continuous calls running at least for some of the categories. In this call, we are looking for proposals related...
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The laughter-induced release of endorphins may be an important mechanism that supports the formation of social networks. Researchers from Aalto University, the Turku PET Centre, and Oxford University have demonstrated that laughter induces the release of endorphins in the human brain. This can help people form and maintain social relationships. 'Laughter-induced release of endorphins may be an important mechanism that supports the formation, strengthening and maintaining of social...
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Professor Kaski is a member of the new steering group preparing a proposal for Finland’s artificial intelligence programme. Artificial intelligence has become a core element of digitalization and Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä appointed a steering group with the goal of getting Finland to the top of the world in the application of artificial intelligence. The steering group has members from the academia, industry and public sectors, including Academy Professor Samuel Kaski from the...
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