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 University of Helsinki is among the leading multidisciplinary research universities in the world. In addition to its 11 faculties, the University of Helsinki includes several independent institutes, some of which are jointly operated with other universities. Some 35,000 students are currently pursuing an undergraduate or postgraduate degree at the University. read more
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The number of connections reaches a maximum at the age of 25 for both genders. Unnamed call records, gender and age information of 3 million mobile phone users from a European country were used to provide a probabilistic interpretation about the communication patterns of individuals. The findings reveal that patterns in communication reflect the social goals of individuals. There is a clear difference in which men and women maintain their relationships. - Young men are more connected than...
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The campus in Otaniemi will receive products and software from the companies for research and teaching purposes. ABB provides the campus with motors for the test bench of magnetic bearings, frequency converters to control the rotation speed of motors and a monitoring system. Photo: Santtu Teerihalme / Aalto University Aalto University Industrial Internet Campus fosters multidisciplinary research, education and innovation together with industrial partners. Now two major industrial companies,...
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More than 400 participants are expected to come from all over the world, and the speakers represent the spearhead of the database technology. The city of Helsinki will witness a major event during May 16-20, 2016 when one of the largest database technology conferences will take place. The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, briefly ICDE, is organized yearly in different cities of the world. In its 32nd year, hosted by Aalto University, it will come to Helsinki first time in its...
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The annual get together event was held for the fifth time this year. The members in the Doctoral Programme gathered to listen to current issues in the doctoral programme and to discuss how the get visibility for ones research and ethics involving research. Invited talkers were Tiede Magazine’s editor-in-Chief Jukka Ruukki, Aalto University’s Communications Officer Minna Hölttä, Communications Specialist Suvi Lavinto from Aalto Industrial Internet Campus, Docent Mikko Möttönen from Department of...
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Aalto University researchers found that the emotional impact experienced by music listeners depends on the concert hall’s acoustics. Vienna Musikverein is a classic shoebox-type concert hall. Earlier research has shown that the strongest emotional experiences by music listening may elicit shivers or goosebumps in the listener. Much weaker reactions can be detected from the variations in the electrical skin conductance. Based on this knowledge, the researchers presented the test subjects an...
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Professor Petri Myllymäki, HIIT Director, was nominated as a chairman of Ministry of Education's collaboration forum of scientific computing. The main task of the forum is to steer the activities of CSC. Professor Keijo Heljanko, HIIT programme director, was nominated as a member of the forum. More information (in Finnish). Add to...
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OmniShare is the first system to combine strong client-side file encryption with secure and intuitive key distribution mechanisms. Omnishare is the overall winner of the "Privacy via IT Security: Innovating Mobile Apps" competition - a European contest to develop mobile apps that leverage security technologies to enhance users' privacy. The top three teams in the competition were invited to demonstrate their apps in exhibition stands at CeBIT 2016. Researchers from Aalto University and TU...