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This week Indrė Žliobaitė visits European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in Vienna, where she is presenting recent research findings in non-discriminatory machine learning / data mining, and discussing with FRA experts possible implications to policy making, monitoring and enforcement. FRA is one of the EU’s agencies providing expert advice to the institutions of the EU and the Member States.

The Annual Report of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT has again appeared. Please take a look at:

Ministry of Transport and Communications and MyData present a framework, principles, and a model for a human-centric approach to the managing and processing of personal information. The approach – defined as MyData – is based on the right of individuals to access the data collected about them. The core idea is that individuals should be in control of their own data.

Professor Hannu Toivonen is the Program Chair of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), to be held in Park City, Utah, June 29 - July 2.

Professor Samuel Kaski was selected as an Academy Professor. Kaski works at the department of Computer Science in Aalto University, and he is also the director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research (COIN)  and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT).

We performed a study to investigate the effect of accessibility by public transport on housing prices in Helsinki. Specifically, we collected house pricing data from Oikotie.fi, an online real-estate marketplace for Finland. Moreover, we measured accessibility for individual houses as travel time by public transport from a house to centers of interest in the city. [...]

An article written by HIIT alumni Airi Lampinen and Vilma Lehtinen has been chosen as a winner as an Outstanding Author Contribution in the 2014 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. The article, "Media Choice and Identity Work: A Case Study of Information Communication Technology Use in A Peer Community", was praised as one the most impressive pieces of work the awards team saw throughout 2014.

Quan (Eric) Nguyen visited the Computational Biology Laboratory at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK on April 20–30, 2015. Eric gave a talk based on his MSc thesis Likelihood-based Phylogenetic Network Inference by Approximate Structural Expectation Maximization.

Quan (Eric) Nguyen visited the Computational Biology Laboratory at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK on April 20–30, 2015. Eric gave a talk based on his MSc thesis Likelihood-based Phylogenetic Network Inference by Approximate Structural Expectation Maximization.