News

29 Dec 2009 - HIIT welcomes applications for small collaborative research projects. The deadline is Monday 8 February 2010.

The requirements for the projects are as follows.

1 Dec 2009 - In his doctoral dissertation, Tancred Lindholm publishes new algorithms for data synchronization on mobile devices and evaluates them. By using the algorithms, users can better combine changes made to different copies of the same data.

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30 Nov 2009 - In the doctoral dissertation, Petri Kontkanen presents mathematical techniques for computing Normalized Maximum Likelihood (NML) distribution efficiently for some model families involving discrete data. Kontkanen also shows how these techniques can be used to apply MDL in two practical applications: histogram density estimation and clustering of multi-dimensional data.

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23 Nov 2009 - PhD, docent Patrik Floréen has been appointed the new Director of HIIT. Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Helsinki have appointed Floréen as the HIIT Director for the term 15 November 2009 to 31 July 2010.

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20 Nov 2009 - In Pasi Rastas' Doctoral disseration, three methods are presented for the haplotype inference problem. The problems studied belong to the broad area of bioinformatics and computational biology. The presented solutions are computationally fast and accurate, which makes them practical in high-throughput sequence data analysis.

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10 Nov 2009 - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT celebrated its 10th anniversary. Almost 200 guest gathered to the celebration at Dipoli, Espoo, Finland.

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26 Oct 2009 - ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, has chosen Teemu Roos from the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT as the winner of the 2009 Cor Baayen Award for a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics.

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24 Oct 2009 - Regularities in human movement patterns make it possible to detect personally meaningful places by analyzing location traces of a user. In his thesis Petteri Nurmi has focused on providing system level support for place identification, as well as on algorithmic issues related to the place identification process.

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23 Oct 2009 - A new research group, Succinct Data Structures (SuDS), has joined HIIT. The research group studies a new subfield of data compression - data structure compression.

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22 Oct 2009 - Millions of people are spending real money on virtual clothes in online hangouts, digital items in multiplayer games and presents for their friends in social networking sites. This digitalisation of consumption is an inherent consequence of the increasing involvement of communication technology in everyday social activities, says HIIT Researcher Vili Lehdonvirta. Lehdonvirta's Thesis is " be examined on 30 October.

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