News

20 Apr 2009 - People find easily ways to manage their privacy on social media, says a study made by researchers at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. Reseachers Airi Lampinen, Sakari Tamminen and Antti Oulasvirta found in their scientific research six ways Facebook users are applying to solve the privacy issues.

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6 Apr 2009 - Finnish Academy of Science and Letters has awarded Teemu Koponen for his doctoral dissertation ”A Data-Oriented Network Architecture". The Academy grants every year four scholarships to young researchers for outstanding doctoral dissertations.

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1 Apr 2009 - Researchers in Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT are developing a new system for filtering spam calls in a flexible way. In the new system, users can accept calls from people who are unknown to the user, but amongst the contacts of friends, or even friends of these contacts.

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21 Mar 2009 - New clustering algorithms make it easier and more reliable to identify locations where a mobile user is moving, says HIIT Researcher Kari Laasonen. Laasonen defended his Doctoral dissertation on "Mining Cell Transition Data" in the University of Helsinki.

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4 Mar 2009 - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT will be in charge of two new graduate schools. The Academy of Finland has awarded funding for the Finnish Graduate School in Computational Science and the Future Internet Graduate School.

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26 Feb 2009 - The Technology Academy Foundation has appointed Professor Martti Mäntylä to the eight-strong International Selection Committee of the Millennium Prize. Millennium Prize, worth over one million euro, is the world's biggest technology prize.

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27 Feb 2009 - The Finnish Cultural Foundation has awarded a Science Workshop grant (€200 000) on stemmatology for the years 2009–2010. Stemmatology, a subfield of textual criticism, means the study of the gradual variation of written texts contained in old manuscripts.

26 Feb 2009 - Tuukka Lehtiniemi has received the University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences annual award for the best Master Thesis in the field of economics. Lehtiniemi made his research for the Master’s Thesis ”Macroeconomic indicators in a virtual economy” as a researcher of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT.

21 Feb 2009 - It is not commonly known how wide core networks are there in Finland. Because of that, it is not clear what kind of impact the new Google data centre has to the Finnish web infrastructure, says Professor Jukka Manner.

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How Aalto University is being prepared and what does Aalto mean to HIIT?

Director Heikki Mannila tells about the forthcoming Aalto era and other current issues.

Time: Wed 4 March at 13:00
Place: Spektri, conference room, 3rd floor

No need for preliminary registration. Welcome!