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 award was granted to Erkki Oja, Professor Emeritus from Aalto University, for his pioneering work in machine learning, pattern recognition and neural networks. For decades, the Finnish scientific community has been strongly involved in the development of machine learning, neural networkd and algorithms. 'Professor Oja is one of the pioneers in the fields, and his scientific merits are significant. He has guided numerous researchers and engineers of this field in their studies and...
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The article “Thought Crimes and Profanities whilst Programming” by Juho Leinonen and Arto Hellas received the best presentation award at the 2017 Koli Calling -conference. Koli Calling is an international conference on computing education research that is published in the ACM Digital Library. This year, the conference had almost 80 participants from 19...
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Scientists conducted “reality mining” of anonymous mobile phone records from about one million people. Despite artificial lightning and social conventions, the dynamics of daylight still influence the daily activities of people living in modern, urban environments, according to new research published in PLOS Computational Biology. Like many other organisms, humans have an internal biological clock that...
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Open data of all of Finland’s casualties in WWII compiled in a unique semantic web application. The WarSampo application combines the information, photographs, press articles, wartime diaries, historical maps, and other material related to the fallen heroes and war cemeteries of the Second World War into a unique online application. The underlying linked open data includes 12 million connections between over 1 million pieces of information and it is the first of its kind in the world. The...
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The European Commission has granted €2.9M funding for SECCLO – Master’s Programme in Security and Cloud Computing starting in 2018. The Erasmus Mundus funding includes 61 scholarships for outstanding European and non-European students for two-year studies in the programme. A total of 38 programmes were selected out of 122 programme proposals. SECCLO is a successor to the very successful NordSecMob – Master’s Programme in Security and Mobile Computing, which ran for 10 years (2006–2015) with...
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Aalto’s main building Dipoli will turn into a giant hackathon community on 24–26 November. Over 1400 coders and designers from all over the world will come together to solve real-life challenges. From AI to mobility, from games and entertainment to health care, over 60 companies and organisations present Junction participants their actual challenges to work on. Coders and designers will work as teams during the weekend with the organisations’ own technologies, data and interfaces. Junction,...
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On 13 December, the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) will host the Artificial Intelligence Day at Dipoli in Espoo, which will allow researchers, companies and representatives of the public administration to meet up. Come join us in discussing artificial intelligence, forming networks and utilising the expertise of other participants. For more information and registration visit http://cs.aalto.fi/en/current...
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The kick-off event will present plans for HiData as well as a range of examples of data science within the participating universities. It is also a great opportunity to network with other academics with interest in data science. Anyone interested in data science research or education is welcome to join the HiData network! Also join the open Facebook group for HiData. Data science, i.e., extraction of knowledge and...
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Bruzual presented his research on the Internet of Things at the Docker conference. Master’s student Daniel Bruzual was selected as one of the speakers of the Docker conference in October. The topic of Bruzual’s Docker presentation was deploying software containers on heterogeneous Internet of Things devices. His contribution was applying and extending the Docker framework for this scenario. The Internet of Things is characterized by millions of embedded devices, producing vast amounts of data...
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Master’s students Lassi Vapaakallio and Laura Laakso constructed a game about last year's Millenium Technology Prize winner Frances Arnold’s directed evolution technology. The game was commissioned and funded by TAF, Technology Academy Finland. “I think the game is pretty functional and intuitive visualization of Arnold's technology. ProDE demonstrates how games can be part of the popularization of science. It visualizes and makes a difficult subject to be understood in an interactive form...