Helsinki ICT Research Events

Welcome to hear interesting presentations and to discuss computer science, startups and everything in superb company. The theme this year is funding. Free admission, no registration.

Key speakers:

The event is organized by

Prof. Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and Universite Paris Diderot, France

Self-stabilizing algorithms are distributed algorithms supporting transient failures. Starting from any configuration, they allow the system to eventually reach a legal configuration. In the context of network computing, we will show that, for every task, there is a self-stabilizing algorithm solving that task, with optimal space-complexity...

Dr. Marcin Piątkowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland) will give a guest lecture on "Repetitions in words over partially commutative alphabets" on Tuesday, October 21 at 13:15-14 in Exactum room C222.

Abstract
Problems related to repetitions are significant due to many practical applications. On the other hand, in some cases it is important to consider words avoiding regularities and repetitions....

Prof. Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto University

In this keynote, I discuss the possibility of using computational methods to design user interfaces automatically. Algorithms play an essential role in the design of many man-made artefacts, so why not in the design of user interfaces? Computational methods are generally useful in well-defined problems in engineering optimization. They are particularly useful when the search space grows...

Santeri Kangas, CTO, Content Cloud, F-Secure Corporation  will give a guest lecture on "How has F-Secure built its cloud services" on Monday, October 20 at 12:15-13:00 in Exactum room B222.

Abstract:
  The presentation walks you through what cloud services does a Personal Cloud or an Internet Security app consume.
  What PaaS and IaaS services are required and how does F...

M.Sc. Emil Eirola will defend his doctoral dissertation Machine learning methods for incomplete data and variable selection on 17 October 2014 in lecture hall T2 (Computer Science building). The opponent is Prof. Fabrice Rossi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France. The custodian is Prof. Juha Karhunen.  

Announcement (pdf)

Title: Euclidean TSP with few inner points in linear space

Abstract: Given a set of n points in the Euclidean plane, such that just k
points are strictly inside the convex hull of the whole set, we want
to find the shortest tour visiting every point. The fastest known
algorithm for the version with few inner points, i.e., small k, works
in O(k^O(k^0.5) k^1.5 n^3) time [Knauer and...

Huayu Wu, PhD (Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore) will give a guest lecture titled "Managing and Analyzing Transportation Data" on Friday, October 10 at 12:15 in Exactum CK111. Welcome!

Abstract

More and more public (e.g., subway and bus) and private (e.g., taxi) transport data are being released to research institutions for urban analytics. By studying those transportation...

FT Huayu Wu (Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore) on hakenut tietojenkäsittelytieteen (erityisesti tiedonhallinnan) apulaisprofessorin tehtävää ja antaa julkisen opetusnäytteensä aiheesta "Database Design Using Entity-Relationship Approach" perjantaina 10.10.2014 klo 10:15 salissa B120. Tervetuloa!

Abstract

A database management system is essential for...

Dosentti Marko Junkkari (Tampereen yliopisto) on hakenut tietojenkäsittelytieteen (erityisesti tiedonhallinnan) apulaisprofessorin tehtävää ja antaa julkisen opetusnäytteensä aiheesta "Johdatus tietokantojen suunnitteluun" torstaina 9.10.2014 klo 14:15 salissa D123. Tervetuloa!

Tiivistelmä

Luennolla esitellään syitä, joiden takia tietokantojen semanttista ja...