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21.9.2007 HIIT Seminar: Janey Yu

HIIT seminars in fall 2007 will be held in hall **B222** of Exactum,
on Fridays starting at 10:15 a.m. Coffee available from 10.

Sep 21:
  Janey Yu
  Discriminative Training for Structured Predictions: An Efficient
  Optimization Method

We consider structured prediction problems with a parametrized linear
prediction function. Corresponding to such type of problems are many
applications: sentence alignment, image segmentation, and HMM, for
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Two new HIIT Fellows nominated

Wed, 12.09.2007

12 Sep 2007 - The Board of HIIT nominated Professor Tommi Jaakkola from MIT and Dr. Wray Buntine from NICTA and Australian National University to the position of HIIT Fellow for 2007-2010. A fellowship can be awarded to an internationally recognized senior researcher who co-operates closely with HIIT through regular visits and doctoral education. Professor Jaakkola plans to work closely associated with the Algorithmic Data Analysis programme and Dr. Buntine with the Probabilistic Adaptive Systems programme. The first HIIT fellowship had been awarded in 2003 to Dr.

12.9.2007 Special Guest Lecture by Phokion G. Kolaitis

 Special Guest Lecture by Phokion G. Kolaitis

(IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA)

      on Wednesday 12th September at 14:15
                 Exactum, room C222


Title:  Schema mappings and data exchange

Abstract:
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the
relationship between  database schemas. Schema mappings are prominent
in several different areas of database management, including database
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