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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Optimal data compression of data streams can be mathematically reduced to being able to predict a sequence of zeros and ones. This is a classical problem in probability theory which was illustrated by Laplace in the 18th century by asking ''What is the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow?''. Laplace derived a solution that is today known as Laplace's Rule of Succession. It assigns the probability (k+1)/(m+2) to any event that has occurred k times in m trials so that...
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Finnish YLE TV1's Prisma Studio programme presented and discussed computational creativity in its 30 minute show at prime time on 11 Feb 2015. The Discovery Research Group of the Department of Computer Science and HIIT, University of Helsinki, contributed to the programme in a number of ways: Professor Hannu Toivonen was interviewed, Jukka Toivanen participated in the discussion in the studio and demonstrated the Brain Poetry art...
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Finnish YLE TV1's Prisma Studio programme presented and discussed computational creativity in its 30 minute show at prime time on 11 Feb 2015. read more
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The national broadcasting company YLE interviewed Matti Nelimarkka and Salla-Maaria Laaksonen on the starting research project Digivaalit 2015. We discussed how we can analyze the publicity during the elections and what one might expect from the project once finished. You can listen the radio broadcast online (starting about 28:30), or read the summary from the...
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Recent research article titled "Explaining the power-law distribution of human mobility through transportation modality decomposition"
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Strategic partnership with NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information (UH CS News)
Aalto University and University of Helsinki have signed an agreement to become strategic partners of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information. The collaboration activities will be coordinated by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, a joint research institute of the two Finnish universities. The member universities of the SoI center are Purdue (leader), Bryn Mawr, Howard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Texas A&M, UC Berkeley, UCSD and Urbana-Champaign.... -
The SciNet search engine, developed at HIIT, outperforms current ones on complicated search tasks going beyond keyword lookups. It is based on interactive intent modelling, which combines HCI and machine learning. read more
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M.Sc. Hadi Soleimany defended his doctoral dissertation Studies in Lightweight Cryptography on 30 January 2015. The opponents were Prof. Carlos Cid from the Roayl Holloway, University of London and Prof. Andrey Bogdanov from the Technical University of Denmark. The custodian was Prof. Kaisa Nyberg. The dissertation is available online at https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/14890.
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Some internship positions are available for bioinformatics students. These positions are targeted to students of bioinformatics (sub)programmes at different Departments in the Helsinki area, as a result of a joint call. Some of the internship positions are announced as internal: you may enquire the username and password from Juha Kärkkäinen or Veli Mäkinen.
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The Discovery Research Group of Prof. Hannu Toivonen has released a novel musical app for iPhone, Musicreatures. Musicreatures, programmed by Petri Myllys, is an iPhone app for creating music in a simple, game-like environment. The user controls objects on the screen by tilting and shaking...