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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There is a temporary arrangement for the management of the Department of Computer Science in June and July. Jouko Lampinen, Dean of the School of Science since 1 June 2016, held a departmental meeting yesterday for the Department of Computer Science to give an update on the future leadership of the department. ‘It has been great to have been a part of founding the new Department of Computer Science for the past year and a half. As soon as I found out about my new appointment as the dean of the...
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Kaisa Nyberg has researched mathematical methods of securing information and communications against active attackers. ‘I became a cryptologist at the Finnish Defence Forces where I was offered the position of researcher as a Doctor and Docent of Mathematics in 1987. I was able to do research, publish and go to conferences’, tells Nyberg. In 1997, the professorship of cryptology was founded, and Nyberg was asked to take on the position of professor. However, Nyberg wanted to get experience from...
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In his Master’s Thesis, Joonas Javanainen examined the level of preparedness the additional challenges of space impose on software design. The Master's Thesis was supervised by HIIT's programme director Keijo Heljanko. The Aalto-1 nanosatellite uses fairly ordinary electronic components which are not specially designed to withstand radiation in space. However, the degree of reliability can be increased through good software architecture which takes into account...
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The Carat Project Team at the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, has published a new version of the popular mobile energy-awareness application. After launch in June 2012, Carat has helped over 850,000 users, of which 41 per cent have been Android and 59 per cent iOS users, respectively. The new user interface follows modern application design guidelines and presents battery information in a more intuitive and easy to use manner. - In addition to the new user interface...
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Academy of Finland has awarded 3-year postdoctoral research grants to several HIIT researchers: Antti Hyttinen, University of Helsinki, on Causal Analysis with Next Generation Graphical Models; Eemil Lagerspetz, University of Helsinki, on UbiSpark: Harnessing the Little Big Engines of IoT; Antti Salovaara, University of Helsinki, on Interaction-level theory for users’ creative IT appropriation; and Markus Heinonen, Aalto University, on Next-generation statistical learning for synthetic...
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The competition consist of five categories: Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing, Digital Infrastructure and Digital Finance. The EIT Digital Challenge is arranged for the third time. EIt Digital is in search of European technology startups ready to scale. The startups can win up to €50,000 in cash, access to EIT Digital’s pan-European innovation network, as well as the chance to join the EIT Digital Accelerator for a full year. Last year Ekin Labs from Tampere, Finland, won...
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13 teams took part in HIIT Open 2016 programming contest on 28 May 2016 in Otaniemi. The contest was open to everyone interested in programming and algorithmic challenges — we had 34 participants in total, among them students or faculty from at least 6 different universities or universities of applied sciences and 3 different high schools, as well as some participants from the industry. The winning team was "Game of Nolife", with...
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The money will be used to develop infrastructure and machinery. Jari Juhanko has been nominated as COO of the Aalto Industrial Internet Campus. Vice President Tuija Pulkkinen has granted a 200 000 euro strategic investment to the Aalto Industrial Internet Campus AIIC. This is a significant acknowledgement of the campus’s role in Aalto’s research and innovation strategy. The money will be used to develop AIIC’s infrastructure and machinery. Also...
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In his his Master’s Thesis, Joonas Javanainen examined the level of preparedness the additional challenges of space impose on software design. The Aalto-1 nanosatellite uses fairly ordinary electronic components which are not specially designed to withstand radiation in space. However, the degree of reliability can be increased through good software architecture which takes into account possible failure scenarios caused by the environment. ‘Joonas Javanainen, an information technology student...
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Shadow Bug, an innovative game for touch screens, is praised across the world. Kim Valori, Juha Ylimäki and Veli Laamanen, students of Aalto University, designed Shadow Bug for their thesis and have achieved what many game designers can only dream about: their game was featured worldwide by Apple in App Store’s Best New Games section and the game also scored 81 points in the Metacritic service that aggregates game reviews. The game was also selected to the esteemed Indie Showcase exhibition of...