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 HIIT Steering Group decided in its meeting 21.2.2018 to increase the maximum amount of funding from the Support Call from 10000 euro to 20000 euro and to include also collaboration between university researchers in Aalto University / University of Helsinki and companies or other organizations. For further detail, see the call text, where the changes have been underlined. Add to...
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The HIIT Board for the next 4 years starting 1.4.2018 will be appointed soon. In a HIIT staff meeting 21.2.2018, the staff elected Antti Honkela as staff representative to the Board, with Matti Nelimarkka as deputy. Antti is an assistant professor at University of Helsinki and Matti is a postdoc at Aalto University. Add to highlights: Importance: NormalShow in: HIIT news
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The brain mechanisms of basic emotions such as anger and happiness are fairly similar across people. Differences are greater in social emotions, such as gratitude and contempt. In the field of affective neuroscience, rivalling theories debate whether emotional states can be regarded as an activity of only certain brain regions. According to a new doctoral dissertation at Aalto University, an emotional state affects the operation of the entire brain instead of individual emotions being localised...
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The meeting of the FCHealth (Foundations of Computational Health) research programme of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) was held on 6 February 2018 in Biomedicum Helsinki, and it brought together nearly 40 scientists from 12 different research groups. This time, the meeting addressed an important topic of drug resistance which remains a major barrier to the successful translation of cancer research into clinical practice. Effective clinical approaches that could reduce...
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The results of Christian Westerlund's Master's thesis promote the productivity of the steel industry. The thesis is based on multidisciplinary studies at Aalto University. Before a steel slab can been shaped it must be heated in a furnace, which is operated with a computer. The control of the furnace is developed with computer modelling of heat transfer. In order for a program to function as part of the control, it must be able to compute result with adequate speed. One method for...
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The Board of Directors of IEEE has appointed Pan Hui as an IEEE Fellow, with the accompanying citation: for contributions to social-based opportunistic networks read more
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There are four (4) vacant professor positions in data science at the Department of Computer Science at University of Helsinki. The deadline is 28 February 2018. Further information is available available in the call. Add to highlights: Importance: NormalShow in: HIIT news
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The Helsinki Algorithms Seminar is a weekly meeting of researchers in the Helsinki area interested in the art of algorithms and algorithm design, broadly interpreted to cover both theoretical ideas and algorithm engineering on concrete computing platforms. The seminar was supported by HIIT in Autumn 2017. The Spring 2018 program of the seminar has just started; see the schedule and join the email list...