This news feed aggregates content from the Research News feeds from the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University Department of Computer Science, and the University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science.
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Meddle: Enabling Transparency and Control for Mobile Internet Traffic Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have fundamentally changed the way we interact with the Internet—and each other—in many positive ways. Underlying this enormous success are several core challenges that remain difficult to address. Apps track users and leak their personal data; the network performance and neutrality of mobile Internet service...
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New Academy grant for Prof. Jussi Kangasharju: Cloud Computing as an Enabler of Large Scale Variable Distributed Energy Solutions (BC-DC) There are five collaborating partners in the 5-year BC-DC project funded by the Strategic Research Council. Professor Rauli Svento, Oulu Business School, Department of Economics (PI), Professor Maria Kopsakangas-Savolainen, Finnish Environment Institute Martti Ahtisaari Institute, Professor Matti Latva-Aho, Center of Wireless Communications, University of...
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New Academy of Finland Project for Professor Hannu Toivonen: Digital language typology (DLT) The project Digital Language Typology (DLT) is part of the Finnish Academy Digital Humanities programme, which includes "novel methods and techniques in which digital technologies and state-of-the-art computational science methods are used for collecting, managing, and analysing data in humanities and social sciences research." Please see http://www.aka.fi...
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There are five collaborating partners in the 5-year BC-DC project funded by the Strategic Research Council. read more
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Data science - as it is called nowadays – creates new skill requirements to various of fields, most importantly programming and computational thinking. To accelerate the change at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, HIIT staff is involved in research and teaching activities. An outcome of the teaching activities is the Computational social science –program, including theoretical and hands-on courses...
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Robin Dunbar is a Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor at Aalto University’s School of Science. Dunbar is a top researcher of computational social science and known for Dunbar's number, the cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom one person can maintain stable relationships. – I am really interested in large-scale social cohesion, in other words, what allows us to live in large groups in towns, cities and states when our...
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More and more researchers are seizing the chance to commercialise their research. The University is presenting its research-based innovations at this week’s Slush event. More invention disclosures have been made this year than ever before. The previous record, from 2009, was broken in October. A total of 76 invention disclosures have already been made this year, when last year’s total was 57. The disclosure is normally the first stage in commercialising an innovation....
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Juho Rousu appeared at Yle Prisma Studio. See the video at Yle Areena. More about the research in the HIIT news. Researchers from Aalto University and the University of Jena in Germany have developed a search engine named CSI:FingerID that identifies metabolites from tandem mass spectrometry measurements with an accuracy more than 150 per cent higher than its rivals, which may make the work of researchers...
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The project Digital Language Typology (DLT) is part of the Finnish Academy Digital Humanities programme, which includes "novel methods and techniques in which digital technologies and state-of-the-art computational science methods are used for collecting, managing, and analysing data in humanities and social sciences research." Please see http://www.aka.fi/digihum for more details....
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The DeepBeat is a machine learning algorithm that creates rap lyrics on the basis of huge data masses. A rap generator DeepBeat, developed by researchers from the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University, HIIT and the University of Helsinki was published online on the 5th of November. Earlier the generator has been only in research use. The DeepBeat is a machine learning algorithm that creates rap lyrics on the basis of huge data masses. At the moment in the database there are in...