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New ways to monitor and reduce underwater plastic pollution
Mitigating underwater plastic pollution is essential for ensuring sustainable development. The Pervasive Data Science group at University of Helsinki has been developing new ways to monitor, and ultimately help to reduce, underwater plastic pollution using underwater drones and optical sensing. [...]
Brainsourcing is a novel crowdsourcing paradigm
It is now reality to mine the relevance to or interest of people directly from the human mind. With the help of EEG interpreted via machine learning that is possible for the first time. In their research paper, Keith M. Davis, Lauri Kangassalo, Michiel Spapé and Tuukka Ruotsalo introduce brainsourcing. It is a novel crowdsourcing paradigm that utilizes brain responses recorded via EEG of a group of people. [...]
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence and NVIDIA to establish a joint NVIDIA AI Technology Center
The Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and NVIDIA’s joint NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) will accelerate AI research, education and adoption in Finland. Thanks to the new collaboration, researchers will be better [...]
New Webinar: AI and Data Science against COVID-19
Starting on 11 May 2020, Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI organises a webinar series together with Helsinki Centre for Data Science HiDATA. The webinar series sheds light on how artificial intelligence-based systems and data science could be of help while fighting against COVID-19. [...]
Interactions with biomedical data support several kinds of insights
A recent article published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics shows how patterns of interaction during visual exploration of data can lead to several different kinds of insights. The research continues the collaboration [...]
New doctoral students starting work on multidisciplinary applications of AI
Eleven new doctoral students at the University of Helsinki are specialising in multidisciplinary applications of artificial intelligence. They were selected from the joint call of the 32 doctoral programmes of the university [...]
The dynamics of friendship in the offline and online worlds
Predictive models can guide the development of better vaccines and vaccination programmes
Researchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland, Simon Fraser University in Canada and Imperial College London combined genomic data, models of bacterial evolution and machine learning to predict [...]
Global HCI
University of St Andrews
January 30th, 2020 at 2.00pm
in Hall E, Otakaari 1,
Aalto University, Espoo
Calls for postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students open
Aalto University and the University of Helsinki are looking for postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students to tackle interesting challenges in multiple areas of ICT. The deadline for applications is January 27th, 2020.
Please see the home pages of the postdoc call and the doctoral student call [...]
Digital Health: Back to the Future
Lancaster University
December 19th, 2019 at 11.00am
in Small Hall, Main Building, University of Helsinki,
Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki