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Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities in Finland within computer science and information technology, are looking for several researchers in Computer Science in the following areas:

Can you solve algorithmic programming challenges, efficiently and correctly, in practice, as a team, under time pressure?

Highlights:

• open to everyone
• for teams of up to 3 members
• 5 hours time
• about 10 algorithmic programming challenges to solve

Rules:

The contest is open to everyone, including university students, high-school students, and teams from companies.

IWOCA 2016 - 27th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms will be held in Helsinki, Finland, 17-19 August, 2016.

IWOCA is a forum for researchers who design algorithms for the myriad combinatorial problems that underlie computer applications in science, engineering and business.

HIIT is renewing its research programmes. The HIIT Board, which eventually will make the decisions concerning new programmes, has decided that we will in the first stage take a look at the proposals for new Academy of Finland Centres of Excellence as potential candidates or starting points for new HIIT programmes. The formal decisions will be made by the HIIT Board after the AoF deadline of April 27, but the next meeting of the Board is on March 9, and it would be good to have an initial idea of relevant programme candidates already there.

Summer jobs in computer science research are waiting for students.

The aim of Spaceify is to commercialise solutions that provide immediate interaction with smart spaces through web technologies. The core of the solution is a client-edge-server ecosystem that seamlessly integrates physical spaces with the web.

Veli Mäkinen and Valtteri Niemi, new Deputy Heads of the Department at the University of Helsinki

The Head of the Department at the University of Helsinki Sasu Tarkoma has appointed Professor Veli Mäkinen to be 1st deputy head and Professor Valtteri Niemi to be 2nd deputy head of the department. Congratulations all around!

See below for the comments of the new appointees about their new duties.

Veli Mäkinen:

Professor Jukka Corander has been elected as a Visiting Fellow at the Churchill College of University of Cambridge. He will spend 4 months at the College during 2016 to do research in infectious disease epidemiology and genomics. Churchill College is renowned for its excellence in Science and Technology; in total 29 Nobel prize winners have been Fellows of the College. For details about the College, visit https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/.