Science in the best company
Science in the best company
Alumni event programme
16:00 Opening words
16:15 Young researchers have the floor
Inauguration of the Linus Torvalds auditorium
17:30 Cocktails
18:30 Programme at the departments
Programme of HIIT and the Department of Computer Science
Location: Exactum, 2nd floor hallway
17:30-20:00 Cheese, wine and coffee
Students, staff members, alumni members and other guests: welcome!
17:30-20:00 Posters and demos
Examples of research and teaching activities at the Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT. The topics include:
- Algorithms for Closed Set Families
- Graph colouring: Too few crayons? Prove it!
- Periodic Multi-Labeling of Public Transit Lines
- A Grid Based Algorithm for On-Device GSM Positioning
- Balanced graph compression based on user preferences
- Bayesian Structure Discovery in Bayesian Networks with Less Space
- Buffinder: Finding Relevant Scenes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Series
- Causal Discovery for Linear Cyclic Models with Latent Variables
- Clustgrams: A clustering-based approach to density estimation
- Combining Chroma Features for Cover Version Identification
- I know what your professor did last summer: tools for (social) network analysis
- Intelligent Tools for Collaborative Writing
- Mobile location-aware computing
- On causal discovery from time series data using FCI
- Redescription Mining Outside the Boolean World
- UbiLight
- Fast atom mapping algorithm for chemical reactions
- GEOBIOINFO-Deep Bedrock Bioinformatics
- Indexing Finite Language Representation of Population Genotypes
- Probabilistic dynamical models of gene regulation
- Do biological names mean anything? Managing the underlying meanings on the semantic web
- Etymon: Modeling relationships among the Finno-Ugric language family
- PULS: Surveillance of news media
- Semanttinen personoitu rekrytointipalvelu vapaaehtoistyöhön
- The national ONKI ontology service
- Ultradynamic Ranking: Future of (Re)search
- CINCO - Collaborative and interoperable computing group
- Engineering sustainable service ecosystems
- Privacy preservation for open service ecosystems
- To trust or not to trust? - Venturing collaboration
- BitTorrent Live
- Computers in the Cold
- Observing real world on Twitter
- Identity-based Cryptography: Applications and Verifications (ICAV)
- Mobile Search and the Cloud: The Benefits of Offloading
- Multitouch Display
- EnergyLife: a ubiquitous application for energy awareness
- Smartphone Energy Consumption: Every Joule Counts
- The More The Better: Utilize Multiple Interfaces on Mobile Devices
17:30-20:00 (C221): Software Factory is open
Come to see how the future of software is being shaped
18:00-18:30 (Speaker's Corner, outside D234): Speed recruiting
Alumni members can give three-minute elevator pitches to explain why their company is for our students the best place to work. We have confirmed speakers from Nixu, Codebakers, Applifier, Sininen Meteoriitti Oy, Digital Chocolate, Avanade, Haaga-Helia and Foreca.
19:00 (Speaker's Corner, outside D234): A look at the Department of Computer Science today by Esko Ukkonen, and a retrospection of the Department of Computer Science yesterday and before by Jukka Paakki, including an introduction to the recently published history of the Department of Computer Science, written by Jukka Paakki. All alumni members present will be given a complimentary copy of this new book that is coming quite literally straight from the press.