Annual Report 2010

Annual Report 2010

Events 2010

Vice Rector Jussi Kola at the inaguration of the new  Ukko cluster with IT Manager Petri Kutvonen on10th of September 2010.

Photographer: Marko Ikonen

13 January Centre of Excellence Algodan (Algorithmic Data Analysis) seminar 2010

27-30 Januray Studia Stemmatologica I

11 February Guest lecture: Flexible Data-centric Networking with the PADRES Publish/Subscribe System

Professor Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto

29 March Guest lecture: Keepon: A social robot for research, therapy, and entertainment

Marek Michalowski, Ph.D.

14 April Guest lecture: Taistelu verkkorikollisuutta vastaan

Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure

15 April Guest lecture: End-to-Middle Authentication in Multi-Hop Networks

Tobias Heer, RWTH Aachen University

7 May Algodan Scientific Advisory Board Meeting

16 May Workshop: The 3rd Asia-Europe Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (AEWUC'10)

17-20 May Conference: The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010)

17 May Guest lecture: TRIC - A Trust and Reputation Infrastructure for Virtual Communities

Professor Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

19 May Guest lecture: Foundation Matters

Database Specialist and Independent Consultant C. J. Date

28 May Workshop: Workshop on Algorithms and Applications (WAA 2010), jubilee seminar for Professor Esko Ukkonen's 60th birthday

2 June The department's summer excursion to Tallinn

7 June Trial lecture: Oppivat aliavaruusluokittimet

Jorma Laaksonen, Aalto University

7 June Trial lecture: Hypoteesikokoelmien oppiminen

Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology

8 June Trial lecture: Piirreperusteinen tilastollinen malli kohteiden oppimiseksi ja havaitsemiseksi kuvista

Joni Kämäräinen, Lappeenranta University of Technology

8 June Trial lecture: Päättely ja oppiminen sekoitustiheysmalleissa

Jaakko Hollmén, Aalto University

9 June Strategy meeting of HIIT

11 June Trial lecture: Bayesiläisen päättelyn perusteet

Petri Myllymäki, University of Helsinki

16-20 August COMP-IT - FICS Summer School on Computation, Innovation and Information Technology

16 June Trial lecture: Defining Strategies for Assessing Software Quality Risks and Performing Software Quality Assurance

Dr. Jürgen Münch, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Kaiserslautern, Germany

16 June Guest lecture: Augmenting Interpersonal Communication with Haptic Feedback

Eve Hoggan PhD, TAUCHI, Tampereen yliopisto

22 June Guest lecture: Talk on computational visual neuroscience

Professor Jesus Malo,  University of Valencia

19 August Doctoral dissertation: Construction of a glbal map of human gene expression - the process, tools and analysis

Margus Lukk

2 September Guest lecture: Exploring microRNA and mRNA Interactions and their Roles in Diseases in Data
Professor Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia

3 September Guest lecture: Aspect-oriented programming (AOP)
Dr. Vladimir Safonov, St. Petersburg University

9 September Guest lecture: Using Mobile Phones with Large Displays for Enhanced User Experience
Umar Rashid

13-15 September Workshop: The Fifth European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM 2010)

13-15 September Conference: The 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2010)

15-16 September Hecse Autumn School

30 September Guest lecture: Learning the dissimilarity between objects described by categorical attributes

Professor Rosa Meo, University of Torino

1 October Doctoral dissertation: Efficient search for statistically significant dependency rules in binary data

Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen

17-20 October International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems (LESS 2010)

25 October Doctoral dissertation: Computational Methods for Detecting Large-Scale Chromosome  Rearrangements in SNP Data

Jussi Kollin

28-29 October Workshop: Workshop on Mass Spectrometry in Systems Biology (MSiB 2010)

6 November 22nd annual jubilee of TKO-äly (student union)

9 November Docent lecture: Challenges in Online Book Retrieval

Antoine Doucet, PhD

12 November Doctoral dissertation: Computational Methods for Reconstruction and Analysis of Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks

Esa Pitkänen

17 November Doctoral dissertation: Multi-user resource-sharing problem for the Internet

Andrey Lukyanenko

18 November Guest lecture: Time-Consistency Problem in the Long Term Decision Making

Professor Leon Petrosjan, St. Petersburg State University

20 November Doctoral dissertation: Cross-layer Assisted TCP Algorithms for Vertical Handoff

Laila Daniel

26 November Department Christmas party

1 December Guest lecture: Guest lecture especially for students: Pelit ja peliala

Olli Sinerma, Pelit Magazine

2 December HIIT Christmas party

10 December Kumpula campus Christmas party

15 December Inauguration lecture: Interacting with Computers beyond Direct Manipulation: from windows, menus and mouse to implicit and embodied interaction

Professor Giulio Jacucci

15 December Inauguration lecture: Algoritmitutkimuksen rooli bioinformatiikassa

Professor Veli Mäkinen

17 December Department Christmas coffee