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 Finnish weekly news magazine Suomen Kuvalehti has published an article about the filter bubble and future Finnish information browsing technologies. SciNet is mentioned as an example of a search engine that can be used to break out of the bubble. SK article (in Finnish) :...
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The CS international blog has a new entry: Friday Pulla / Perjantai Pulla
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New Tekes research projects will find solutions for new energy systems, personalised healthcare and novel industrial processes using biological systems. HIIT participates in two of the three new programmes (Digital Health Revolution and Living Factories). More information on School of Science's website.
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The Department of Information and Computer Science is presently looking for a lecturer in the field of machine learning and data analysis. The closing date of the call is Aug 29, 2014. Detailed information about the position, as well as the application process and its requirements, is provided at http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/212/.
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On 26th of June, Tekes has decided to fund three new strategic research openings. The strategic research openings are visionary and challenging projects aiming to make serious breakthroughs that will lay the foundation for entirely new areas of business in the future. The ICS Professors Juho Rousu, Samuel Kaski and Harri Lähdesmäki take part in the Living Factories -project. The Living Factories -project is carried out by Aalto University, VTT and University of Turku, the coordinator being...
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Academy of Finland has awarded 3,7 million euros for projects selected to the ICT 2023 programme from the first thematic call "Information Security". In the two-stage call, altogether 50 plans of intent were submitted to the Research Council of Natural Sciences and Engineering, of which 6 projects have been selected for funding.Among the accepted projects are the consortium "Cloud Security Services" lead by Prof. Valtteri Niemi (Univ. of Turku) with a participating ICS research group of Prof....
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The Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Academy of Finland awarded in its meeting on 16 May 2014 one of its highly competitive five-year Academy Research Fellowships to Assistant Prof. Tapani Raiko of the ICS department. Raiko's project concentrates on investigating deep learningwith applications to large-scale multimedia data.A total of 229 applications were submitted to the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, of which 20 projects were decided to be...
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M.Sc. Janne Toivola defended his doctoral dissertation Advances in Wireless Damage Detection for Structural Health Monitoring on 18 June 2014. The opponent was Dr. Arno Knobbe from the Leiden University of The Netherlands. The custodian was Prof. Juho Rousu. The dissertation is available online at https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/13357.
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Deutsche Welle's English radio show Spectrum: The Fascinating World of Science and Technology interviewed Professor Hannu Toivonen for their show on April 20th, 2014. The topic was computational humor research. The autocorrect humor bind We don't often hear about computers having a deeper, more emotional side. But scientists in Finland are examining...
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During the awesome spring of 2014, 16 students at the Department of Computer Science participated in the qualifying rounds of Hello World Open - the world championships of coding. The competition was arranged by Finnish technology companies Reaktor and Supercell, and the task was to produce an Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot for a race car. Over 2500 teams registered to the competition from all corners of the world, some of them also from the University of Helsinki. The competition was...