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 paper "Reduced Cost Fixing in MaxSAT", authored by Antti Hyttinen, Matti Järvisalo, and Paul Saikko of the Constraint Reasoning and Optimization group in collaboration with Fahiem Bacchus (University of Toronto, Canada), has won the Distinguished Paper Award at CP 2017, 23rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, taking place August 28-31, 2017 in...
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Understanding brain function might help in the development of new treatments for neuropsychiatric illnesses in the future. Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki have succeeded for the first time ever in affecting metacognition of a tactile working memory task by combining neural pathway imaging and magnetic stimulation of the brain. By combining different brain research methods in a versatile manner the researchers showed for the first time that transcranial magnetic...
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In the science sessions of Aalto researchers, a pin and a beach ball represent the solar system and pieces of rope represent network research. During the past year, Aalto researchers have held more than 100 science sessions at comprehensive schools and upper secondary schools around Finland. The Scientists in Schools programme involves researchers arranging science sessions and telling pupils about their research in a compelling manner. The objective is to support children's and young people's...
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The areas of cooperation include healthcare data analytics and artificial intelligence as well as start-up activities. Aalto University and GE Healthcare Finland Oy have agreed to expand their cooperation. The agreement covers cooperation related to research and development, teaching and start-up activities. Both parties are interested in studying and analysing clinical data and using digitalisation and artificial intelligence to create new innovations. ‘GE Healthcare is one of Aalto’s long-...
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This year the Department of Computer Science of the University of Helsinki celebrates its 50th Anniversary. The festivities include a Jubilee Seminar on Thursday 31 August 2017, at 1-6 p.m., in the Great Hall of the University Main Building (Unioninkatu 34). The event is free of charge and open to everyone. Registration is required for logistic reasons. For more information: https://uhcs50.cs.helsinki.fi/en/ Contact person: Teemu Roos,...
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A statistical component model can be used to identify associations between chemicals and toxicological effects. The joint Aalto University, Karolinska Institute and Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) study included over 1,300 known pharmaceutical molecules, on which there is a wealth of measurement data available. ‘The study uses systematic data-driven analysis to combine toxicity measurements taken on cell lines with gene expression responses describing gene activation. Toxicity...
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Unanticipated harmful effects of chemicals and drug molecules are a big problem. A significant step in predicting them computationally, based on genomic data, was taken in a study published in Nature Communications. The study was done by HIIT researchers Juuso Parkkinen and Samuel Kaski in collaboration with researchers from Karolinska Institutet, Maastricht University and Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM. http://rdcu.be/tSSF Add to...
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The WarSampo team was recognized for making cultural heritage material openly available in a linked open data project. WarSampo is a web portal with large data sets on World War II in Finland linked with the possibility to search, browse and visualize this data from different perspectives. The goal of the project is to provide a tool for understanding history and promoting peace. Members of the awarded team, headed by Professor Eero Hyvönen, are Erkki Heino, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, Petri...
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Faculty of Science invites applicants for four Computer Science related Assistant/Associate Professor (tenure track) or Professor positions in the following areas: read more
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At this year's International ACM Web Science Conference (Websci 2017), the best student paper award went to the paper titled “The Effect of Collective Attention on Controversial Debates on Social Media” by Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella (Aalto), Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (QCRI), Aristides Gionis (Aalto), and Michael Mathioudakis (Aalto). The full paper is publicly available on Arxiv (...