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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Summer jobs in computer science research are waiting for students. Several salaried research assistant positions are available in a range of research projects. There are jobs available for computer science and information technology students. In some projects there are also jobs available for students of mathematics, literature, language technology, general linguistics, geophysics, or seismology. The research assistants are needed from May to September. Contracts can also be made for a shorter...
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M.Sc. (Tech) Joonas Paalasmaa will defend his doctoral thesis Monitoring Sleep with Force Sensor Measurement on Friday 7th of February 2014 at 12 o'clock in the University of Helsinki Main Building, Auditorium XIV (Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor). His opponent is Professor Tapio Seppänen (University of Oulu) and custos Professor Hannu Toivonen (University of Helsinki). The defense will be held Finnish. Monitoring Sleep with Force Sensor Measurement This thesis presents methods for...
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The Dean of the School of Science Risto Nieminen has appointed D.Sc. (Tech.), docent Tapani Raiko as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science, starting from 1st of February 2014.
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The CS international blog has a new entry: Summer student at CERN https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/blog/summer-student-cern
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The Times of London, UK, reports on computational creativity research of the Discovery group of Prof. Hannu Toivonen, more specifically about computational generation of humor: Academic wants autocorrect to put more titter power at your fingertips It was obvious what Hannu Toivonen meant — but it was still embarrassing. “I was signing off my e-mail,” he said....
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The publications of Genome-scale algorithmics research group were selected to the top 10 of Bioinformatics Contributions 2013. The goal of the selections was stated as " to find elegant papers and methods, which are currently under-appreciated, but will have major impact in the future (in the opinion of judges)." The research group thanks for the...
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Doc. Maarit Mantere's computational methods and data analysis for astrophysics group is part of the new Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Solar Long-term Variability and Effects (ReSoLVE) for 2014-2019. The centre is lead by Prof. Kalevi Mursula from the University of Oulu, where three of the five teams are located. In addition to Aalto University, the centre has a partnering team in the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence studies the space climate, in...
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Fabian Fagerholm (left) and Arto Vihavainen At the department’s Christmas coffee on 17 December 2013, the certificates of honour were awarded for a senior and junior instructor, for two junior researchers, and the employee of the year. In addition to the certificate, they received a monetary award. The prize for senior instructor was awarded to Fabian Fagerholm, Master of Science. Being a good instructor does not necessarily involve the traditional course model with...
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The group of Prof. Samuel Kaski was selected to Biocentrum Helsinki for the period 2014-16. Biocentrum Helsinki is a large umbrella organization hosted by the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, with research in molecular biology, experimental biomedicine, biotechnology and bioinformatics.
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The group of Prof. Samuel Kaski was selected to Biocentrum Helsinki for the period 2014-16. Biocentrum Helsinki is a large umbrella organization hosted by the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, with research in molecular biology, experimental biomedicine, biotechnology and bioinformatics.