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          HIIT at Slush 2015Wed, 18.11.2015 Researchers from the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT participated to Slush. In 2015, Slush brought together 15.000 attendees, including 1.700 startups, 800 venture capital investors and 630 journalists from exactly 100 countries. People from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark Helsinki, with the ambition of taking their business to the next level. 
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          ReCon based on a platform called MeddleWed, 18.11.2015 Meddle: Enabling Transparency and Control for Mobile Internet TrafficMobile 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. 
-         New Academy grant for Prof. Jussi KangasharjuTue, 17.11.2015 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. 
-         New Academy of Finland Project for Professor Hannu ToivonenMon, 16.11.2015 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/digihum for more details. 
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          Social scientists are coding - againMon, 16.11.2015 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.  Juho Rousu talks about research on the metabolites search engine at YLE TV1 Prisma Studio Nov 4Mon, 09.11.2015 Juho Rousu appeared at Yle Prisma Studio. See the video at Yle Areena.   Jukka Suomela elected as a member for the EATCS councilWed, 04.11.2015 Jukka Suomela has been elected as a member for the EATCS council. EATCS is the most important European scientific association in Theoretical Computer Science, organizing e.g. the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) conference. https://www.eatcs.org/index.php/council   HICT organised a doctoral course: Pitch Training for ICT Research (1 credit)Wed, 04.11.2015 Pitch Training for ICT ResearchThe Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT) is a collaborative doctoral education network coordinated by HIIT, and hosted jointly by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The network serves as a collaboration platform for doctoral education combining all the relevant subfields of computer science and information technology at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.   HIIT mukana Tekniikan Päivillä (in Finnish)Wed, 04.11.2015 Tekniikan päivätTieto on valtaa. Mutta miten sitä käytetään? Valtakunnallisilla Tekniikan päivillä tieteen ja teknologian asiantuntijat valottavat kysymystä.Katso Tekniikan päivien tapahtumat http://tekniikanpaivat.fi   Identifying controversies in social mediaTue, 03.11.2015 Aalto researchers have developed a method for quantifying controversies in social media. The method, developed by doctoral student Kiran Garimella and his colleagues, aims to help users understand their news diet and enrich their online news consumption. Pages