Helsinki ICT Research Events

This event feed aggregates content from the Research Events feeds from the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University Department of Computer Science, and the University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science.

  • Coopetitive Service Innovation in Mobile Payment Ecosystems

    Junying Zhong, M.Sc., will defend the dissertation “Coopetitive Service Innovation in Mobile Payment Ecosystems” on 16 October 2015 at 12 noon in Aalto University, School of Science, lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. Mobile payments which are emerging services for exchanging values in the digital age were studied in this dissertation. These services are realized through multi-actor innovations....

  • Title: "Analysing, Querying and Managing data"

    Place: Odeion, TUAS Building, Otaniementie 17

    Speaker Prof. Boris Novikov Visiting Prof. Eljas Soisalon-Soininen

    Title: Analysing, Querying, and Managing Data.

    Abstract:
    The efficiency of declarative languages relies on sophisticated optimisation techniques developed for traditional databases. In the modern context, the optimisation of complex declarative analytical...

  • Student teams fight in programming for an admission to the NWERC and even to the ICPC contest.

    The winners will be Nordic Champions in programming for teams, and the best student teams will go to NWERC, the regional finals in the ICPC contest. This contest also encompasses national and local championships, and is held in a distributed manner at various sites throughout the Nordic countries. See...

  • From motion capture to performance synthesis: A data based approach on full-body animation

    Klaus Förger, M.Sc.(Tech.), will defend the dissertation “From motion capture to performance synthesis: A data based approach on full-body animation” on 9 October 2015 at 12 noon in Aalto University, School of Science, lecture hall AS1, Otaniementie 17, Espoo. The dissertation explores how the style of moving virtual humans can be controlled with phrases of natural language...

  • Title: Tractable Bayesian Network Structure Learning with Bounded Vertex

    Place: Exactum C222, Kumpula, Helsinki

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  • Topic: "Building a Social Engine: Automating Social Cues for Avatars and Agents in Virtual Worlds"

    Place: Odeion, TUAS-Building

    Abstract:
    In most social virtual worlds where users are represented by graphical avatars, such as in online games, the expression of communicative intent and social behavior relies on explicit user input such as by picking "wave" from a menu or inserting emoticons into chat text. This approach is fine for...

  • 08.10.2015 12:00–13:00
    Guest lecture
    Exactum B121

    A PhD's experiences from industry: Security in practice

     

    University degrees are not just preparation for an academic career: they train you to think critically, process information and to find your way

    in complex systems. In the best case, it does not even matter so much what you do, because you can learn efficiently and apply basic theoretical concepts to a widerange of different...

  • MSc Thesis presentation

    Place: A106, CS-Building, Konemiehentie 2

    Supervisor: Prof. Keijo Heljanko

  • 06.10.2015 12:00–15:00


    Would you like to learn to tell the essential of you research in just 1-2 minutes? You never know, it just might be useful
    - at your thesis defense to convince your opponent
    - in a job interview
    - when you apply for research funding from AoF, Tekes...
    - you wish to commercialize your research results and create a start-up
    - you find yourself sitting next to your lifelong IT guru, a business angel or a journalist, and you...

  • Come to listen how operations research methods can be used to solve conflicts.

    The Finnish Operations Research Society organizes a workshop in collaboration with the President Martti Ahtisaari Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) peace broker organization and the Systems Analysis Laboratory of Aalto University with the title "Decision analysis based real world conflict analysis tools".

    More information and registration:...

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