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 NCPC programming contest for Nordic universities was held on Saturday 5th October 2013. The contest consists of algorithm programming tasks that are solved by teams of three people. This year almost 300 teams participated, among them 15 teams from University of Helsinki. There were also 9 teams from Aalto University. The best team from our university was Segfaulting alot in despair with Olli Hirviniemi, Janne Junnila and Topi Talvitie. The team managed to solve 9 tasks out of 11 and ranked...
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M.Sc. Antti Ajanki defended his doctoral dissertation Inference of relevance for proactive information retrieval on 27 September 2013. The opponent was Professor Kari-Jouko Räihä from the University of Tampere and the custodian was Professor Samuel Kaski. The dissertation is available online at http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2013/isbn9789526052953/isbn9789526052953.pdf.
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The CS international blog has a new entry: Welcome to Kumpula Club Buddy Program
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HIIT researchers and their colleagues (Sakari Tamminen, Antti Oulasvirta, Kalle Toiskallio, and Anu Kankainen) were awarded the Most influential Paper from MobileHCI 2003 prize. Their paper “Understanding Mobile Contexts” has 300+ citations. The prize was shared with the paper “A Review of Mobile HCI Research Methods” by Jesper Kjeldskov and Connor Graham that had same citation number. The Most influential Paper from MobileHCI n-10 recognises the longevity of impact...
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Revolution of Knowledge Work project is funded by Tekes, as a big strategic opening. The first funding period is 1 September 2013 - 28 February 2015. The project is collaboration between HIIT and Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. Today a huge amount of information is spread out in various data silos. The current systems and search engines have inflexible views to the data and they have only a limited ability to study...
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M.Sc. Panu Luosto will defend his doctoral thesis Normalized maximum likelihood methods for clustering and density estimation on Saturday 14th of September 2013 at 10 o'clock in the University of Helsinki Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, Auditorium XIV (old part), 3rd floor. His opponent is Docent, Academy researcher Jaakko Peltonen (Aalto University) and custos Professor Jyrki Kivnen (University of Helsinki). The defense will be held in Finnish. Normalized maximum likelihood methods for...
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M.Sc. Lauri Eronen will defend his doctoral thesis Computational methods for augmenting association-based gene mapping on Friday 20th of September 2013 at noon in the University of Helsinki Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, Auditorium XII (old part), 3rd floor. His opponent is Professor Joost Kok (Leiden University, The Netherlands) and custos Professor Hannu Toivonen (University of Helsinki). The defense will be held in English. Computational methods for augmenting association-based gene...
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The CS international blog has a new entry: Carat: Vitamins for Mobile Devices
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HIIT MSc Aaron Yi DING, supervised by Professor Sasu Tarkoma and senior researcher Markku Kojo, is visiting University of Cambridge, from June to December 2013. During this research visit, Aaron is advised by Professor Jon Crowcroft and working...
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M.Sc. Mikko Apiola will defend his doctoral thesis Creativity-Supporting Learning Environments: Two Case Studies on Teaching Programming on Friday 23rd of August 2013 at noon in the University of Helsinki Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, Auditorium XIV (old part), 3rd floor. His opponent is Professor Erkki Sutinen (University of Eastern Finland) and custos Professor Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki). The defense will be held in Finnish. Creativity-Supporting Learning Environments: Two Case...