Helsinki ICT Research Events

Qualcomm's Snapdragon System on Chip (SoC) integrates many microprocessors with varying degrees of use case specific optimization. At one end of the spectrum lies Qualcomm's Krait application processor, a general-purpose CPU handling operating system tasks such as Android applications. At the other end lies Qualcomm's Hexagon Digital Signal Processor (DSP) designed to allow multimedia and communication...

Prof. Leslie G. Valiant, Harvard University, US

As biological organisms we are composed of highly complex mechanisms, including our gene expression circuits, our cell signaling networks, and our brains. These are all of daunting complexity and it is legitimate to fear that we shall never understand them well. However, all these circuits have the commonality that they were all acquired by some adaptive process - namely by...

This is the third lecture of Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology.

Abstract

As biological organisms we are composed of highly complex mechanisms, including our gene expression circuits, our cell signaling...

Dr. Panagiotis Papapetrou, University of London, UK

Suppose you hear a song but you cannot recall its name; one solution is to hum a short part of the song and perform a search on a large music repository to find the song you are looking for or even songs with similar melody. The main task of a Query-By-Humming (QBH) system is, given a hummed query song, to search a music database for the K most similar songs....

Abstract:
Suppose you hear a song but you cannot recall its name; one solution is to hum a short part of the song and
perform a search on a large music repository to find the song you are looking for or even songs with similar melody.
The main task of a Query-By-Humming (QBH) system is, given a hummed query song, to search a music database for the
K most similar...

Prof. Ville Kyrki, Aalto University, Department of Automation and Systems Technology

Manipulation skills are invaluable for future service robots. Manipulation in complex domestic environments is, however, a challenging task because in contrast to most current robotic applications the environment can not be known in advance. To cope with the uncertainty, the environment needs to be perceived using sensors...

M.Sc. Janne Pylkkönen will defend his doctoral dissertation Towards Efficient and Robust Automatic Speech Recognition: Decoding Techniques and Discriminative Traning on 22 March 2013 in lecture hall T2 (Computer Science building). The opponent is Dr. Erik McDermott, Google, Inc., USA. The custodian is Prof. Erkki Oja.

Announcement (fi, pdf)

Abstract: Tremendous advances have been made in reducing the cost of DNA synthesis.  We are entering an age of synthetic biology, where we can design and synthesize new life forms for scientific and medical applications.  Our group has designed weakened but viable strains of flu and poliovirus to serve as live vaccines.   We have demonstrated that vaccination with our...