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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Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities in Finland within computer science and information technology, are looking for several researchers in Computer Science in the following areas: Automated linguistic analysis and creativity Genome-scale algorithmics Complex Systems Computation Probabilistic programming for data analytics Constraints, Satisfiability and Optimization Digital Health & Data-Driven Healthcare Theory of...
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University of Helsinki and Aalto University, the two leading universities in Finland within computer science and information technology, are looking for several researchers in Computer Science in the following areas: read more
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Can you solve algorithmic programming challenges, efficiently and correctly, in practice, as a team, under time pressure? Highlights: open to everyone for teams of up to 3 members 5 hours time about 10 algorithmic programming challenges to solve Rules: The contest is open to everyone, including university students, high-school students, and teams from companies. We will mostly follow the same rules as in the NCPC. In brief: each...
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IWOCA 2016 - 27th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms will be held in Helsinki, Finland, 17-19 August, 2016. IWOCA is a forum for researchers who design algorithms for the myriad combinatorial problems that underlie computer applications in science, engineering and business. A special issue of selected papers will be published in the journal Theory of Computing Systems. There will be a Best Student Paper award, sponsored...
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This course aims to bring together students and researchers of humanities, social sciences and computer science, for a week of active co-operation in groups under the heading of Digital Humanities. Digital Humanities, as understood here, is the use of computer science to aid research in the humanities and social sciences (e.g. in fields like linguistics, literature, art, culture, history, sociology, and language philosophy). Currently, data of interest to researchers in the humanities is...
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The University of Helsinki is establishing a Master's programme in data science to meet corporate and research needs. Data science is a new field of science for the methods of analysis of various forms of data. There is a considerable lack of experts in this field. read more
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Modelling revealed that the probability of participating in the same conference again increases in relation to previous regular participation. Here we illustrate the idea of the associative nature of conference participation via a simple example. Jim participated in a conference twice, then skipped one and participated once again, but did not participate at all after that. Tim participated the first five times and, although he skipped one conference, he then participated three times. The...
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In distributed computing, many computational problems are inherently global: to solve such a problem, we need to get full information on the structure of the computer network. There are also some problems that can be solved in a strictly local manner: it is enough that each computer is aware of its local neighbourhood (e.g, of other computers that are within some small constant number of hops away). While the two extremes — global problems and local problems — are...
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HIIT is renewing its research programmes. The HIIT Board, which eventually will make the decisions concerning new programmes, has decided that we will in the first stage take a look at the proposals for new Academy of Finland Centres of Excellence as potential candidates or starting points for new HIIT programmes. The formal decisions will be made by the HIIT Board after the AoF deadline of April 27, but the next meeting of the Board is on March 9, and it would be good to have an initial idea...
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Study shows that although ZEBRA works very well with honest people, opportunistic attackers can fool the system. Researchers from Aalto University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have found vulnerabilities in a recently proposed user verification security system for computers. This new security system, developed by Dartmouth College researchers, was created in response to a need for easy-to-use systems that determine whether someone is, in fact, who he or she is declaring to be—a...