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Gap Filling as Exact Path Length Problem
Wed, 01.04.2015
An article titled "Gap Filling as Exact Path Length Problem" is to be presented at RECOMB 2015 - a leading computational biology conference with 21% acceptance ratio this year.The problem considered is one of the last steps in a genome assembly project, that is, filling the gaps between consecutive contigs in the scaffolds.HIIT presence at IUI'15
Mon, 30.03.2015
HIIT researchers present three papers and one poster this year at the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces conference:
Improving Controllability and Predictability of Interactive Recommendation Interfaces for Exploratory Search (short paper)
IntentStreams: Smart Parallel Search Streams for Branching Exploratory Search (short paper)
Carat double-awarded in PerCom
Mon, 30.03.2015
The Carat research team got two awards from IEEE PerCom this week in St. Louis, USA. The article of Ella Peltonen, Eemil Lagerspetz, Petteri Nurmi, and Sasu Tarkoma: Energy Modeling of System Settings: A Crowdsourced Approach was honored by the Marc Weiser Best Paper Award. The article presented that crowdsourced data can be used to model battery consumption of mobile devices in real-life situations, when observing combinations of system settings, subsystem variables, and usage context of the device.
Tekes decided to grant funding for the continuation of the Re:Know project
Fri, 27.03.2015
Tekes decided on 20.3.2015 to grant funding for the continuation of the Revolution of Knowledge Work, Re:Know project. The funding is for 2 years starting 1.4.2015 and amounts to Tekes support 2,6 million euros.
The project research partners are HIIT and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. For further information about the project, see www.reknow.fi.
HIIT Vice-Director Patrik Floréen elected deputy Board member of Svenska Tekniska Vetenskapsakademien i Finland
Fri, 27.03.2015
HIIT Vice-Director Patrik Floréen elected deputy Board member of Svenska Tekniska Vetenskapsakademien i Finland, a learned society promoting engineering research and education in Swedish in Finland.
See more about Technology Academy Finland TAF.
Finding similar neighborhoods across cities by social-media data analysis
Fri, 20.03.2015
We analyze social-media data to characterize city neighborhoods in terms of their activity. We build models to compare neighborhoods in different cities and answer questions like: "which neighborhood in Paris is most similar to Greenwich Village?"
A paper on our work will appear in the ICWSM 2015 conference. You can also check our blog post in Northern bytes.
For students MOOC is more than just a course
Thu, 19.03.2015
Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and the University of Helsinki discovered new ways of learning when studying the online community that had come into existence during massive open online courses (MOOCs) on programming organised by the University of Helsinki. Course participants were able to discuss programming problems with other students on a chat channel on a real-time basis.
Kvasir project will be demonstrated in WWW'15 conference
Thu, 19.03.2015
Kvasir project will be demonstrated in WWW'15 conference in Florence, Italy, May 2015. Kvasir aims at integrating intelligent and proactive content provision and into web browsing.
Cozzarelli Prize to professor Jukka Corander
Mon, 16.03.2015
PNAS awards the annual Cozzarelli Prize to the most excellent and original scientific publication in six different scientific fields. The 2014 Cozzarelli Prize was received in biomedical sciences for a revolutionary discovery concerning evolutionary mechanisms in bacterial populations. PNAS is one of the highest ranking general scientific journals and the prize honors former Editor-in-Chief professor Nicholas R Cozzarelli. Corander is the first Finnish scientist receiving the prize.
HIIT research on digital media and elections present in YLE evening news
Sun, 15.03.2015
Matti Nelimarkka and the Digivaalit 2015 project was featured in YLE national evening news discussing how social media is used to support the civic society. The quote is rather short, so let's go a bit deeper in this story...
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