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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Results from the HIIT wide focus area research on user modeling in exploratory search will be published in the IUI'16 conference this year. Our papers are titled: "Interactive intent modeling from multiple feedback domains", "Beyond Relevance: Adapting Exploration/Exploitation in Information Retrieval", "RelaWorld: Neuroadaptive and Immersive Virtual Reality Meditation System", and "Dealing with Concept Drift in Exploratory Search: An Interactive Bayesian...
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The Head of the Department Sasu Tarkoma has appointed Professor Veli Mäkinen to be 1st deputy head and Professor Valtteri Niemi to be 2nd deputy head of the department. Congratulations all around! See below for the comments of the new appointees about their new duties. Veli Mäkinen: read more
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The Head of the Department Sasu Tarkoma has appointed Professor Veli Mäkinen to be 1st deputy head and Professor Valtteri Niemi to be 2nd deputy head of the department. Congratulations all around! See below for the comments of the new appointees about their new duties. Veli Mäkinen: read more
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The Head of the Department Sasu Tarkoma has appointed Professor Veli Mäkinen to be 1st deputy head and Professor Valtteri Niemi to be 2nd deputy head of the department. Congratulations all around! See below for the comments of the new appointees about their new duties. Veli Mäkinen: read more
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On Thursday, 21 January 2016, the best programmers in Finnish schools gathered at the department for the finals in the Datatähti (data star) 2016 competition. The open preliminaries, held last autumn, generated invitations to the finals for 19 competitors from different parts of Finland. The competitors were given six challenging programming problems to solve. Each problem was worth 100 points, so the maximum amount of points was 600. The competitors had five hours to solve the problems,...
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On Thursday, 21 January 2016, the best programmers in Finnish schools gathered at the department for the finals in the Datatähti (data star) 2016 competition. The open preliminaries, held last autumn, generated invitations to the finals for 19 competitors from different parts of Finland. The competitors were given six challenging programming problems to solve. Each problem was worth 100 points, so the maximum amount of points was 600. The competitors had five hours to solve the problems,...
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On Thursday, 21 January 2016, the best programmers in Finnish schools gathered at the department for the finals in the Datatähti (data star) 2016 competition. The open preliminaries, held last autumn, generated invitations to the finals for 19 competitors from different parts of Finland. The competitors were given six challenging programming problems to solve. Each problem was worth 100 points, so the maximum amount of points was 600. The competitors had five hours to solve the problems,...
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The next lecture will be held on 9 February. The lecture series will culminate with a panel discussion in May. The lively discussion on cyber security continues. The first lecture in the series was on trust and security, which go hand in hand. – Thanks to the positive feedback we received last spring, we decided to organise a new public lecture series. Cyber security is an integral and essential part of our society, businesses and way of life, says Professor of Cyber Security Jarno Limnéll...
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The Regulations of HIIT (Ohjesääntö), detailing the status of HIIT as a joint unit of Aalto University and University of Helsinki, have been renewed. The new version includes minor changes in the composition and duties of the Board. Also, the intellectual property rights (IPR) are no longer jointly owned by the two universities, but instead the ownership depends on where the IP was created. Most importantly, HIIT's role in conducting top-level research and joining the...
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D4Health-project tries to figure out how already existing data masses could be utilized efficiently in the treatment of different diseases. The D4Health – Data-Driven Decision Support for Digital Health Care project is funded by the Academy of Finland. It includes the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation from the Aalto University, as well as Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT – a joint research institute of...