HiDATA kick-off will give you an overview of data science as a new interdisciplinary field focusing on methodologies for extracting knowledge and insights from data thus contributing to different areas of science. HiDATA is a joint hub of the [...]
Time: May 17th at 13:00-14:00
Location: Lecture room T5, T building, Otaniemi
Welcome to discuss current matters of interest to HIIT and the Helsinki region ICT community at large. The Director of HIIT, Petri Myllymäki, will first give a brief status report and go through [...]
Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference (DHN 2018) was organized at the University of Helsinki in March 7-9 2018. The conference, organized by HELDIG - the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities, brought together [...]
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Panagiotis Papapetrou was a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science of Aalto University in March 2018. Panagiotis Papapetrou is a professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences of Stockholm University, Sweden. During his visit professor Papapetrou gave a course in Aalto University, which was titled “Learning from electronic health records”. The course focused on recent research developments on the topics of representing and summarizing electronic health records as well as algorithms for predictive modeling of complex health data. In addition, professor Papapetrou collaborated [...]
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI launches a series of minisymposia on leading trends in Finnish AI research in conjunction with the weekly Machine Learning Coffee Seminars. The FCAI symposium series will provide an opportunity to catch up with the latest AI research [...]
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FCAI arranges an event for companies, AI startups, students, investors, accelerators, public sector etc. at A Grid (Otakaari 5) on Thursday 5 April.
Matchmaking, pitches and stands. For further information and registration, please see http://www.fcai.fi/events/.
A new HIIT project co-funded by Business Finland has started where machine learning and HCI researchers are contributing to address gestational diabetes.
The project is originated from the CleverHealth Network, an ecosystem coordinated by the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS). The main [...]
The Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference (widsconference.org) aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field. This annual one-day technical conference provides an opportunity to hear about the latest data science [...]
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The HIIT Board for the next 4 years starting 1.4.2018 will be appointed soon. In a HIIT staff meeting 21.2.2018, the staff elected Antti Honkela as staff representative to the Board, with Matti Nelimarkka as deputy. Antti is an assistant professor at University of Helsinki and Matti is a postdoc at Aalto University.
The meeting of the FCHealth (Foundations of Computational Health) research programme of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) was held on 6 February 2018 in Biomedicum Helsinki, and it brought together nearly 40 scientists from 12 different research groups. [...]
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There are four (4) vacant professor positions in data science at the Department of Computer Science at University of Helsinki. The deadline is 28 February 2018. Further information is available available in the call.
Economy is undergoing a shift and needs new global and localised socio-technological interventions to accommodate the changes. To address the issue, a seminar "Blockchain Experiment Starting: Can local currency become new strength of Helsinki?" was held on [...]
Modern molecular medicine requires state-of-the-art methodologies in data science, including algorithms and machine learning methods, and the analysis, visualization and modelling of large data sets.
As part of an annual international joint call of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine [...]
The Artificial Intelligence Day held on 13 December 2017 in Dipoli, brought together 600 artificial intelligence experts and enthusiasts from universities, research organizations, companies and the public sector. The organiser of the event, the new Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI established by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, wishes to make the AI Day an annual [...]
