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 Vice-Director Patrik Floréen elected deputy Board member of Svenska Tekniska Vetenskapsakademien i Finland, a learned society promoting engineering research and education in Swedish in Finland. See more about Technology Academy Finland TAF. Add to highlights: Banner image: Importance: NormalShow in: HIIT newsContact person: Patrik Floréen
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The University of Helsinki passed the international quality assessment and was given a certificate of the audit for the next six years. The audit also evaluated some of the university programmes, including our department’s Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. As a result of our long-running improvement efforts in education, the department has become accustomed to success in these evaluations. read more
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Helsingin yliopisto läpäisi laatujärjestelmän kansainvälisen auditoinnin ja sai tästä sertifikaatin toiminnalleen tulevaksi kuudeksi vuodeksi. Auditoinnissa arvioitiin myös muutamia yliopiston koulutusohjelmia, näiden joukossa myös laitoksemme kandi- ja maisteriohjelmat. Johdonmukaisen koulutuksen kehittämisen tuloksena laitoksemme on tottunut menestymään tällaisissa arvioinneissa....
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We analyze social-media data to characterize city neighborhoods in terms of their activity. We build models to compare neighborhoods in different cities and answer questions like: "which neighborhood in Paris is most similar to Greenwich Village?" A paper on our work will appear in the ICWSM 2015 conference. You can also check our...
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In his award-winning master’s thesis doctoral candidate Jerri Nummenpalo analysed a method for Big Data computation.
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Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and the University of Helsinki discovered new ways of learning when studying the online community that had come into existence during massive open online courses (MOOCs) on programming organised by the University of Helsinki. Course participants were able to discuss programming problems with other students on a chat channel on a real-time basis. – We noticed that many of the students stayed on the chat channel of...
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Kvasir project will be demonstrated in WWW'15 conference in Florence, Italy, May 2015. Kvasir aims at integrating intelligent and proactive content provision and into web browsing. The core research team consists of Dr. Liang Wang, Dr. Sotiris Tasoulis, Prof. ...
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PNAS awards the annual Cozzarelli Prize to the most excellent and original scientific publication in six different scientific fields. The 2014 Cozzarelli Prize was received in biomedical sciences for a revolutionary discovery concerning evolutionary mechanisms in bacterial populations. PNAS is one of the highest ranking general scientific journals and the prize honors former Editor-in-Chief professor Nicholas R Cozzarelli. Corander is the first Finnish scientist receiving the prize. The online...
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The awards were given to Doctors of Science (Tech) Riku Ruotsalainen, Paula Savioja-Kangasluoma and Atte Aalto.
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A recent study shows that learning from others also encourages students at open online courses to continue in the online community after the course.