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Jouni Siren's PhD thesis awarded at the national Computer science event
The national yearly Computer Science event (Tietojenkäsittelytieteen päivät) is the main event of the Finnish Society for Computer Science (TKTS). The society hands out two awards every year, the best MSc thesis of the year, and the best PhD thesis, which is awarded by The Finnish Information Processing Association, FIPA (TTL in Finnish). This year the PhD thesis award was granted to Jouni Siren from our department, for his thesis "Compressed Full-Text Indexes for Highly Repetitive Collections". Congratulations, Jouni!
This year the event was organized in collaboration with the TIVIT Cloud Software project in Oulu, in 3rd and 4th of June. It was bilingual again, including a couple of presentations in Finnish in addition to the mostly English program. The program included several interesting talks from MSc thesis awardees and the student miniconference, such as presentations about mashup tools for programming the web (Arto Salminen, Tampere University of Technology), fast implementations of cryptographic block ciphers (Jussi Kivilinna, University of Oulu), a promising study about handicapped tertiary degree (university or polytechnic) graduates finding work in the ICT field (Jukka Mononen, University of Oulu), and a summary of empirical studies on what effects test-driven development has on product quality (Simo Mäkinen from our department).
On the second day, the theme was the future of software business. Janne Järvinen (Focus area director of the Cloud Software program), who had also presented Monday's keynote, opened the day. For a couple of highlights, Jukka Häyrynen (Director of Young Growth Companies at Tekes) encouraged us to make more innovative spinoffs from research and apply for support at Tekes. Eetu Luoma (University of Jyväskylä) summarized a number of studies about what the Finnish cloud scenery looks like (including one by the Ministry of transport and communications). Markku Lepistö (Nokia Siemens Networks) spoke about the high cost of failing causes risk aversion and inhibits innovation, and how the cloud can help this problem by lowering the cost of experimenting.
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