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23 Aug - Professor Marko Turpeinen has been appointed Director of the Helsinki Node of ICT Labs, one of the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

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23 Aug - Teenage online community users feel part of their online community almost as much as they feel part of their own family. An international study of the users of teenage online community Habbo reveals that users identify more strongly with the online community than with their neighbourhood or offline hobby group

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2 Aug - Professor Samuel Kaski is looking forward to strengthen even more high-quality IT research in HIIT. Kaski started his 5-year term as the new Director of HIIT in the beginning of August.

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20 July 2010 - This summer Pori Jazz uses the latest technology to present its programme, artists and venues to the audience. The Jatsitatsi multitouch wall, created as a part of a HIIT-led research project, uses advanced technology in a novel way to provide the audience with new experiences in public spaces.
 

17 June 2010 - The President of Aalto University and the Rector of Helsinki University have appointed Professor Samuel Kaski as the new Director of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT for a fixed five-year term.

Samuel Kaski has been Professor of Computer Science since 2004, first at the University of Helsinki, then at the Aalto University School of Science and Technology (previously TKK). Before these appointments, he held various researcher positions at the Academy of Finland.

Marko Turpeinen writes in In HIIT blog:

"I want to talk to you today about how the concepts such as “publishing”, “social interaction”, “participation”, “mobile and ubiquitous”meet and how their combinations are rapidly evolving and changing how we define “media”. I do this by illustrating these trends and showing some research highlights from our research institute in Finland."

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04 May 2010 - MultiTouch Ltd, a start-up with origins in HIIT, grows internationally. The manufacturer of table- and wall-sized multitouch displays has already sold its products to some 30 countries around the world. It opened its two first offices in the USA this spring.

27 Apr 2010 - The Finnish music market‘s share is smaller in digital music stores than in traditional music shops. According to sales and consumption statistics, non-Finnish artists‘ share of all sold music grows when people buy music from the web and mobile stores instead of traditional record stores. The observation was published in a report on the recent trends in music consumption in Finland. The report was made by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT.

21 Apr 2010 - Petri Kontkanen received an honorable mention for the second best PhD thesis in the shortlist for the Classification Society Distinguished Dissertation Award of 2010. The title of Dr. Kontkanen's dissertation is "Computationally Efficient Methods for MDL-Optimal Density Estimation and Data Clustering".

14 Apr - Researchers from HIIT/Aalto University, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg and the University of Manchester have developed a new computational method to identify targets of regulator genes.

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