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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Matti Nelimarkka and the Digivaalit 2015 project was featured in YLE national evening news discussing how social media is used to support the civic society. The quote is rather short, so let's go a bit deeper in this story... The goal on Digivaalit 2015 is to understand who controls the agenda in digital media. One interesting phenomena is...
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The CS international blog has a new entry. Please check out the story here: Reflections after five years of Software Factory projects by Fabian Fagerholm Photo by Jarmo Isotalo
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Director of HIIT, Professor Samuel Kaski has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of Statistics Finland (Tilastokeskuksen neuvottelukunta) for the period 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2018. The Ministry of Finance appoints the Board which supports the strategic management of Statistics Finland. http://www.stat.fi/index_en.html Add to highlights: Importance: NormalShow in: HIIT news
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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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Dr. Alan McNally is an internationally renowned expert on human microbial pathogen evolution and transmission. He is a long-tern collaborator of Jukka Corander and visits HIIT week 10 in 2015 to work on a COIN flagship project about the evolution and dissemination of the globally most widespread extraintestinal pathogenic strain of E. coli. Add to highlights: Banner image: Importance: NormalShow in: HIIT newsContact person: Jukka Corander
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Different world views are covered and explored by researchers and experts as part of the University of Helsinki 375th anniversary year activities. Professor Sasu Tarkoma was interviewed regarding the Internet of Things and how it influences industry and society. The article (in Finnish): Esineiden Internet on seuraava teknologinen murros...
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The Department of Computer Science invites applications for a bioinformatics tenure-track position offered jointly with the Department of Biosciences and the Institute of Biotechnology: http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=101212
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The start of 2015 sees a flurry of visits from prominent Japanese researchers to the Genome Scale Algorithmics group (a division of HIIT's Algorithmic Data Analysis subprogramme). On Monday, 2 March, Prof. Hideo Bannai (leftmost in image) of Kyushu University will begin a 12 day visit to work on algorithms and data structures for compression and string processing. He will be giving a talk covering aspects of these topics on Wednesday...
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Recent research article titled "Explaining the power-law distribution of human mobility through transportation modality decomposition" was accepted by Nature Scientific Reports (SREP). The 2013 Impact Factor for Scientific Reports is 5.078, according to the 2013 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2014). This places Scientific Reports a top 5 multidisciplinary science primary research journals among Nature, Science, Nature Communications and PNAS, etc. The key...