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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 [...]
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 [...]