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Muistakaa kohdentaa työaikanne. Työajan kohdentaminen EI liity kulunvalvontaan eikä palkanmaksun perusteisiin, vaan ainoastaan kustannusten kohdentamiseen projekteille ja tulosalueille.

18 Feb 2009 - HIIT has released Host Identity Protocol (HIP) installation packages for Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian Linux distributions. Released software makes using Internet easier for mobile users. For instance, a mobile user can download content from the web without the connection being cut off when the moving from 3G to WLAN network.

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HSE:n, TaiK:n ja TKK:n henkilökunta (yksittäiset henkilöt, ryhmät, ohjelmat ja/tai laitokset/tiedekunnat) sekä opiskelijat voivat osallistua kilpailuihin, jolla etsitään

16 Feb 2009 - Debate of controlling copyrights on the web rises again as Swedish authorities have taken Pirate Bay, the worlds largest bittorrent tracker, to the court. HIIT researcher Herkko Hietanen points out that the disputed services provide links to the pirate content instead of delivering that themselves. From the legal point of view, this can make a difference.

View Herkko Hietanen's comment on YLE's newscast in Swedish (at 11.53) »

14 Feb 2009 - The law does not give powerful tools to fight new racisist groups on the web. Stupid opinions can be legal. The best way to fight back may be opening anti-racist campaigns on the net, says professor Jukka Kemppinen.

Read Jukka Kemppinen's interview in Turun Sanomat »

6 Feb 2009 - China is changing Windows to Red Flag Linux in many places. In China the authorities may try to use Linux to control the use of web more than before, says Senior Researcher Kai Puolamäki.

Read Kai Puolamäki's interview in Voima Magazine »

6 Feb 2009 - The Biomine project has been granted € 110 000 by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. The project, headed by Professor Hannu Toivonen, is among the very first ones to receive funding for preparation of commercialization, from a new instrument just launched by Tekes.

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4 Feb 2009 - There are plenty of positions open for research assistants in HIIT and other computing research institutions. HIIT is looking for students to work from May to September or for shorter periods.

3 Feb 2009 - The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) will take place in Bled, Slovenia, from 7 to 11 September 2009. HIIT Fellow Wray Buntine is to be one of the programme chairs at the conference.

Read more about the ECML PKDD 2009 »

3 Feb - Remember to submit your new tax card to the administration now. Member of staff who has not sent his/her tax card, will have 60% of the salary withheld as tax.

At TKK, send your tax card to address "Palkat / Tuula Singh, PL 1000" by internal mail. Attach a note that you are working at HIIT.

At the University of Helsinki, send your tax card to "Kumpulan henkilöstöpalvelut / Sari Uurinmäki, PL 68"