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The group of Prof. Samuel Kaski was selected to Biocentrum Helsinki for the period 2014-16.

Biocentrum Helsinki is a large umbrella organization hosted by the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, with research in molecular biology, experimental biomedicine, biotechnology and bioinformatics.

An arXiv research report based on the work being done at the "Malware Insights"
project at the department, has been featured in MIT Technology Review's
"Emerging Technology From the arXiv" section.
 
The project team, consisting of Hien Truong, Eemil Lagerspetz, Sourav
Bhattacharya, Petteri Nurmi, Sasu Tarkoma, and N. Asokan have been
investigating the true extent of malware infection in Android devices.  

Research Coordinator of HIIT, Ella Bingham, D.Sc. (Tech.), Docent, has been appointed as Executive Director of the Research Foundation of Helsinki University of Technology (Teknillisen korkeakoulun tukisäätiö) as of 1 November 2013. The appointment is part time and she continues as the Research Coordinator of HIIT.

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.

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.

HIIT researchers Kai Kuikkaniemi and Matti Nelimarkka will organize a workshop on backchannels and live participation tools in ECSCW 2013 & EC-TEL 2013  (Sep 21st - Sep 25th @ Paphos, Cyprus).

Several HIIT researchers are presenting novel and ongoing research at the CHI 2013 conference in Paris, France, this week. HIIT contributions include two full papers, a note, and six workshop positions papers. 

James Cussens is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Computer Science at the University of York, UK. He works on machine learning, particularly Bayesian statistics, probabilistic graphical models and statistical relational learning. He is also a member of the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis and is involved in interdisciplinary research including philosophy, statistical genetics, discrete optimisation and toxicology. He received his PhD in Philosophy of Science from King's College, London in 1991.

HIIT researchers Dorota Głowacka, Tuukka Ruotsalo, Ksenia Konyushkova, Kumaripaba Athukorala, Samuel Kaski and Giulio Jacucci received a best paper award at International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2013.