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Sleep tracking accessory maker Beddit is out with a new watchOS 2 app for Apple Watch today. Because Beddit offers a dedicated sensor for tracking your sleep duration and quality each night, Apple Watch is able to charge overnight as needed and still present sleep data in the morning. Thanks to hardware access granted to native software, Beddit’s watchOS 2 app lets Apple Watch double as a sleep tracker during the day for measuring naps and creating silent alarms.

Potential applications for the machine-learning based method include anti-doping work, drug control by the Customs and crime scene investigation.

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 in life and medical sciences easier. The study was recently published in the highly regarded PNAS journal.

Machine can also be creative and learn intuitively, says Harri Valpola, the founder of Curious AI. Harri Valpola has investigated machine learning, neurosciences and neurorobotics since 1993, with the pioneer Teuvo Kohonen at Aalto University. Principal scientist Harri Valpola is a member of HIIT Board. 

SIROCCO 2016

23rd International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity 19–21 July 2016 · Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

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Musicreatures is a novel mobile app that utilizes the multimodal interaction capabilities of smart phones in playful, real-time musicalization.

The LMHS MaxSAT solver gained top positions in MaxSAT Evaluation 2015, the primary yearly international competitive event for state-of-the-art constrained optimization solvers for the maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) optimization paradigm. The solver was ranked first in terms of the total number of benchmarks solved in both the industrial and crafted categories of the weighted partial competition benchmarks among the participating non-portfolio solvers.

The LMHS MaxSAT solver gained top positions in MaxSAT Evaluation 2015, the primary yearly international competitive event for state-of-the-art constrained optimization solvers for the maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) optimization paradigm. The solver was ranked first in terms of the total number of benchmarks solved in both the industrial and crafted categories of the weighted partial competition benchmarks among the participating non-portfolio solvers.

Finnish YLE TV1's Prisma Studio programme presented at prime time on 23 Sep 2015 "Robottiavioliitot tulevat. Miten kännykkä välittää tuoksun ja kosketuksen? Teknologia tunkee kehoomme!"  YLE Prisma Studio

Professor Hannu Toivonen was interviewed for the programme. See more about the research done at the Discovery Research Group of the Department of Computer Science and HIIT, University of Helsinki: 

Tekniikan päivät 2015: Haluaisitko päästä päättämään omien tietojesi käytöstä?

MyDatan perusajatus on antaa henkilöille käytännöllinen mahdollisuus hallita omaa dataansa.

Petri Myllymäki has been elected director of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT).

Professor Petri Myllymäki from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki is starting from 1.8. as new director of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). Myllymäki follows Professor Samuel Kaski of Aalto University in this position. Kaski was recently appointed Academy professor for 2016-2020.