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HIIT is contributing to the annual ACM CSCW conference by presenting initial results from research on privacy management and live tweeting. Both projects are conducted in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s School of Information.

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT conducts basic and strategic research on information technology. It is a joint research institute of the Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. HIIT is a leading IT institute with research ranging from fundamental methods and technologies to novel applications and their impact on other sciences, people and society. HIIT's key competences are in analysis of large sets of data, probabilistic modeling of complex phenomena, Internet architecture and technologies, mobile and human-centric computing, and user-created media.

The research group led by professor Veli Mäkinen at Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki is re-named as Genome-Scale Algorithms (previously Succinct data structures).

The web page of the group is http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/gsa/

Tenure track or tenured position in machine learning, probabilistic modelling or data mining

The position is located at Aalto University, Department of Information and Computer Science (http://ics.tkk.fi/en/), Helsinki, Finland, and is open to outstanding individuals who hold a doctorate and have excellent potential for a successful scientific career. Candidates in the areas of machine learning, probabilistic modelling and data mining are especially welcome.