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MegaSense helps avoid air pollution
A network of sensors that measure air quality is being built in Helsinki, which can be used as the basis for a range of health-promoting applications to help avoid air pollution. [...]
Finland continues its quest to teach 1 % of the world the basics of AI – Open online course Building AI published
A new open online course by the University of Helsinki and technology company Reaktor explains the algorithms behind AI. Building AI is a sequel to Elements of AI, the international phenomenon that has been voted the world’s best computer science course. [...]
Evolutionary Surrogate-assisted Prescription
University of Texas at Austin and Cognizant Technology Solutions
November 19th, 2020 at 6.00 pm
Lecture in Zoom
Artificial intelligence helps to obtain increasingly accurate information on air quality
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have developed a technique for obtaining accurate information on air quality using simple and inexpensive measuring equipment. Thanks to the new technique, low-cost sensors could be utilised with a considerably broader scope. [...]
Helsinki ICT research is widely represented in the NeurIPS 2020 conference
Ad providers want to increase their sales whereas users try to avoid ads disrupting them. Research collaboration studied how advertisements can be made effective but non-disruptive to users. [...]
Finding the Right Balance in Mobile Advertising
Ad providers want to increase their sales whereas users try to avoid ads disrupting them. Research collaboration studied how advertisements can be made effective but non-disruptive to users. [...]
Scientists develop a sound device to allow monkeys to play sounds and music
The Animal-Computer Interaction research team at Aalto University's Department of Computer Science designed and built a tunnel-shaped sound device of wood and plastic for small monkeys, which was placed in their own residential area in the Amazon House of Korkeasaari Zoo. [...]
Janne Lindqvist is a new Vice Director of HIIT
Professor Janne Lindqvist from Aalto University has joined HIIT. The HIIT Board elected 7th of October 2020 Janne Lindqvist to be a new Vice Director of HIIT. [...]
Novel neuroadaptive generative modelling
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals. In a way, it is as if the computer tries to imagine what a human is thinking about. [...]
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 [...]