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Claude E. Shannon Award to Jorma Rissanen
Fri, 29.08.2008
1 Sep 2008 - IEEE Information Theory Society has awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award for 2009 to Professor Jorma Rissanen.
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HIIT published new versions of Finnish Creative Commons licences
Fri, 22.08.2008
25 Aug 2008 - HIIT has published new discussion versions for Creative Commons licences in Finland. People are welcomed to comment the new versions at http://pong.hiit.fi/cc until 31 August 2008.
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. HIIT is the Finnish project leader of international Creative Commons.
Read more (in Finnish) »
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University of Helsinki Approved the New Articles of HIIT
Fri, 22.08.2008
University of Helsinki has approved the new articles of HIIT. TKK is expected to approve the articles before the end of September.
University of Helsinki press release (in Finnish) »
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Almost 800 Participants in the July Conferences
Thu, 21.08.2008
21 Aug 2008 - Several international conferences on artificial intelligence have attracted almost 800 participants to Helsinki in July. The series of conferences was the most important international scientific event of year on machine learning.
Read more about the figures of the conferences (in Finnish) »
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Music Goes on in People's Mind
Fri, 15.08.2008
15 Aug 2008 - A new topic within the psychological discipline concerns involuntary semantic memories. Initial research has suggested that musical memories are the dominant type of memories that are remembered involuntarily. Interestingly, no reliable information exists on how common this phenomenon of ‘earworms’, mental replay of music, is among people living in a western culture. Present study intended to investigate this issue by examining the topic in retrospect.
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Vili Lehdonvirta Joins Live Gamer Advisory Board
Thu, 24.07.2008
Vili Lehdonvirta.HIIT Wiki Is Open
Thu, 10.07.2008
HIIT now has a Wiki of it's own that can be found from
Requests for new wiki spaces (areas you can put content in) can be sent to it-web at hiit dot fi.
More information, including a description of a procedure for wiki space request can be read from Wiki's information space.
Non-HIIT personnel can also gain access to Wiki. Should your project have need for that, please contact it-accounts at hiit dot fi.
International Conferences on Machine Learning started in Helsinki
Tue, 08.07.2008
Reseachers studying conference posters. Photo: Sanna Kettunen7 July 2008 - A range of remarkable international conferences on artificial intelligence have started in Helsinki. The series of conferences is the most important international scientific event of year on machine learning. It lasts over a week and attracts almost 800 researchers from academic institutions and businesses to Helsinki.
libexact User's Guide is now out
Tue, 01.07.2008
30 June 2008 - The libexact User's Guide (version 1.0) is now out. libexact is a software library for solving combinatorial exact covering problems.
Petteri Kaski's and Olli Pottonen's report has been published in the HIIT Technical Reports series.
Download here libexact User's Guide (pdf) »
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