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At this year's International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017), the best student paper award went to “Reducing Controversy by Connecting Opposing Views” by Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, and Michael Mathioudakis, from Aalto University and Qatar Computing Research Institute. For a high level description of the paper, please visit the blog of Aalto...
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Samuel Kaski, Professor in Machine Learning, who participated in Prime Minister Sipilä’s panel on artificial intelligence likes the challenge. In the seminar that he had convened to the House of the Estates on 7 February, Prime Minister Juha Sipilä talked about the opportunities artificial intelligence provides for Finland. The Prime Minister noted that artificial intelligence is one of the fastest growing global technologies and its impacts will be massive. According to the Prime Minister, we...
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In the recent work on "Working the fields of big data: Using big-data-augmented online ethnography to study candidate–candidate interaction at election time" published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Matti Nelimarkka, Mari Tuokko, Mari Marttila, Arto Kekkonen and Mikko Vili explore how ethnography can be used to support computational data analysis, developing a novel...
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An extensive analysis of online material showed that the voter is in danger of being forgotten when candidates have a go at each other. Based on an extensive online material, researchers showed that social media interaction between the candidates of different parties can be aggressive and have an accusing tone. They gathered data on the social media activity of the candidates of the parliamentary election in spring 2015 and combined the online ethnographic observations made during the election...
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A HIIT research team led by professor Jukka Corander collaborated with the pathogen genomics group at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to unearth the evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei, a notorius soil bacterium causing serious human infections in tropics. Contrary to previous understanding, the genomic analyses revealed that the origin of B. pseudomallei isolates on the American continent is in Africa, dating back to the peak period of slave trade. Transfer of humans, plants and animals...
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Research topics include high precision lifting and user identification. Aalto University Industrial Internet Campus celebrated the inauguration of the smart crane donated by Konecranes on 18 January, 2017. The crane’s smart functions relate to safe operation and condition monitoring. In the crane design Siemens PLM software is used. There new solutions can be simulated with the crane’s digital twin i.e. the virtual copy of...
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The Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki is announcing an open tenure track ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OR PROFESSOR in computer science pertaining to Algorithmic data science with focus on SSH (social science & humanities) applications The position is located at the Department of Computer Science. The deadline for applications is 15 February 2017. The details of the call can be found here: read more
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Nokia’s aim is to accelerate the adoption of IoT solutions by supporting collaboration that promotes innovation. On Wednesday 18 January, 2017 the Aalto Industrial Internet Campus celebrated the inauguration of the smart crane donated by Konecranes. At the event Nokia announced their gift for the campus – the Nokia Innovation Platform connectivity kit. The Nokia...