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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HAIC will develop scholarship scheme for students choosing to specialize in information security. During the last few years, Aalto University and the University of Helsinki have built up strong research groups and education programs in information security and privacy. Collectively these groups represent the best information security expertise in Finland and one of the best in Europe. Both universities also offer a number of information security courses in their curricula which are very popular...
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The event provides a unique opportunity to see what kind of digital solutions the construction industry will be using in the future. The construction industry and technology experts meet on June 3-5 in Helsinki to solve challenges provided by construction companies. Participants will be using 3D modeling, virtual reality, augmented reality, indoor positioning and sensors to build new solutions and compete for prizes. The second AEC Hackathon in Finland takes place in Helsinki at Sweco Finland...
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#DHH16 — Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2016 — was jointly organised by HIIT, University of Helsinki, and Aalto University on 16–20 May 2016. The hackathon brought together students and researchers of humanities, social sciences and computer science for one week of intensive collaboration. The groups studied emigration discourse in Finnish newspapers in 1870–1910, Finnish public tv broadcasting...
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The University of Helsinki team Game of Nolife participated in the World Finals 2016 of the ICPC programming contest in Phuket, Thailand. The team consisted of computer science and mathematics students Otte Heinävaara, Olli Hirviniemi and Tuukka Korhonen. The team was coached by Mikko Sysikaski, a former contestant. read more
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The University of Helsinki team Game of Nolife participated in the World Finals 2016 of the ICPC programming contest in Phuket, Thailand. The team consisted of computer science and mathematics students Otte Heinävaara, Olli Hirviniemi and Tuukka Korhonen. The team was coached by Mikko Sysikaski, a former contestant. read more
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Lampinen starts his five-year period as Dean on 1 June. Professor Jouko Lampinen, D.Sc. (Tech.), 53, has been appointed Dean of the Aalto University School of Science and as a member of the University's Management Team. His five-year period as Dean starts on 1 June 2016. Lampinen has several years of experience as Head of Department at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science and at the Department of Computer Science, which he has been leading since 2015. Lampinen...
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A three-year (1 Sept 2016-31 Aug 2019) Postdoctoral research grant has been awarded to the following researchers: Antti Hyttinen Causal Analysis with Next Generation Graphical Models Funding 244,357 euros Eemil Lagerspetz UbiSpark: Harnessing the Little Big Engines of IoT Funding 261,523 euros read more
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Noiseless Acoustics ltd, the developers of an acoustic camera, was one of three Finnish companies chosen from among 700 applicants. Doctoral candidate Kai Saksela conducts research in acoustics optimisation as a part-time member of prof. Lauri Savioja’s research group in the Department of Computer Science. He graduated as a Master of Science in Engineering at the beginning of 2012. ‘I decided to start making research around two years after completing my Master’s degree. In working life I did...
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Michael Mathioudakis attended the World Wide Web conference in Montreal to present a demonstration of the GeoTopics system. The system processes Foursquare check-ins for large cities around the world and distinguishes regions of different characteristics within them. For example, the system might discover that one region in a city host mainly professional activity and is...