You can’t tell whether an online restaurant review is fake – but this AI can
Miikka2020-05-27T20:21:58+03:00Researchers find AI-generated reviews and comments pose a significant threat to consumers, but machine learning can help detect the fakes.
Sites like TripAdvisor, Yelp and Amazon display [...]
Hate speech detecting AIs are fools for “love”
Miikka2020-05-27T20:22:05+03:00State-of-the-art detectors that screen out online hate speech can be easily duped by humans, shows a new study.
Hateful text and comments are an ever-increasing problem in online environments, yet addressing [...]
Elements of AI becomes the most popular course ever at the University of Helsinki
Miikka2020-05-27T20:22:26+03:00The Elements of AI MOOC organised by the University of Helsinki, FCAI and Reaktor awarded diplomas to the first graduates and received endorsement from the President [...]
Antti Poikola joins the AI Accelerator
Miikka2020-05-27T20:22:33+03:00HIIT researcher Antti ”Jogi” Poikola has been selected to lead the AI Accelerator, one of the instruments realizing the Finnish AI Strategy (www.tekoalyaika.fi), together with Alexander Törnroth. While working for the AI Accelerator Jogi will still continue [...]
Make-up of superbug MRSA revealed – with prospective methods to prevent inter-species transfer
Miikka2020-05-27T20:22:51+03:00An international team of researchers, including Professor Jukka Corander (University of Oslo, University of Helsinki), has mapped the entire genetic make-up [...]
A new computational method for reconstructing the evolution of a tumor
Miikka2020-05-27T20:23:04+03:00Discovering the evolution of a tumor may help identify driver mutations and provide a more comprehensive view on the history of the tumor. One way to tackle this problem is to take several samples from the tumor [...]
MyData 2018 Conference
Miikka2020-05-27T20:23:13+03:00MyData 2018 is organised in Helsinki on August 29-31. The core idea behind MyData movement is that we, you and I, should have an easy way to see where data about us goes, specify who can use it, and alter these decisions over time.
The MyData 2018 conference invites you to [...]
StanCon 2018 Conference
Miikka2020-05-27T20:23:21+03:00StanCon 2018 is oganised in Helsinki on August 29-31. Stan is a probabilistic programming and statistical modeling language used by tens of thousands of scientists, engineers, and other researchers for statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction. The StanCon 2018 conference consists of one day [...]
AI Monday on the 17th of September
Miikka2020-05-27T20:23:28+03:00The next AI Monday is on the 17th of September at 16:30 - 19:00 with Teradata, Google, Technology Industries of Finland and one AI startup on stage.
AI Monday is a monthly networking event for those who are interested in AI. [...]
ALGO 2018 Conference
Miikka2020-05-27T20:23:34+03:00ALGO 2018 is organised in Helsinki on August 20-24. ALGO is an annual meeting combining the premier algorithmic conference European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) and a number of other specialised conferences and workshops, all related to algorithms and their applications, making ALGO the major [...]
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Organised in Helsinki
Miikka2020-05-27T20:23:57+03:00Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) was organised at Duke University by Matthew Salganik and Chris Bail. However, around the globe, in New York, Chicago, Cape Town [...]
Prospects and challenges of AI discussed in a conference on EU innovation strategy
Miikka2020-05-27T20:24:04+03:00Artificial intelligence was one of the main topics in the recent conference Innovative Europe? Time for a new EU innovation strategy. In a workshop focusing on the impact of AI [...]
Opening Seminar of the AIPSE Academy Programme
Miikka2020-05-27T20:24:40+03:00The opening seminar of the AIPSE (Artificial Intelligence for Physical Sciences and Engineering) research programme is approaching. The seminar has a great one-day programme. Please pay attention to the interesting keynote speakers! [...]
Self-Supervised Visual Learning and Synthesis
Miikka2020-05-27T20:24:47+03:00University of California, Berkeley
June 15, 2018 at 10.00am
in Lecture hall T1, Aalto CS Building,
Konemiehentie 2, Espoo
The Time-Traveling Networking Researcher: Witnessing the consolidation and fragmentation of the Internet?
Miikka2021-12-09T13:28:54+02:00Georgia Institute of Technology
June 4, 2018 at 3.00pm
in Small Hall, Main Building, University of Helsinki,
Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki
Kick-off event of HiDATA – Helsinki Centre for Data Science
Miikka2020-05-27T20:25:04+03:00HiDATA kick-off will give you an overview of data science as a new interdisciplinary field focusing on methodologies for extracting knowledge and insights from data thus contributing to different areas of science. HiDATA is a joint hub of the [...]
HIIT Open Discussion Hour
Miikka2020-05-27T20:25:12+03:00Time: May 17th at 13:00-14:00
Location: Lecture room T5, T building, Otaniemi
Welcome to discuss current matters of interest to HIIT and the Helsinki region ICT community at large. The Director of HIIT, Petri Myllymäki, will first give a brief status report and go through [...]
Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 2018 Conference
Miikka2020-05-27T20:25:22+03:00Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference (DHN 2018) was organized at the University of Helsinki in March 7-9 2018. The conference, organized by HELDIG - the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities, brought together [...]
Leading trends in AI – a new weekly minisymposium
Miikka2020-05-27T20:25:44+03:00Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI launches a series of minisymposia on leading trends in Finnish AI research in conjunction with the weekly Machine Learning Coffee Seminars. The FCAI symposium series will provide an opportunity to catch up with the latest AI research [...]