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VILMA Centre of Excellence develops AI methods for modelling the atmosphere
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Momentum of the MyData movement continues
Momentum of the MyData movement continues The conferences of MyData Global have established their position as the premier events for the rapidly growing community interested in human-centered personal data management. MyData 2019, organised on 25-27 September in Helsinki, brought together 975 participants from 46 countries. The ...
Nordita program on Solar Helicities brought together observers, modelers and theorists
Nordita program on Solar Helicities brought together observers, modelers and theorists Understanding the Sun to the extent that we can predict how its magnetic field drives space weather and climate is an extremely challenging but important problem for the present-day, increasingly hi-tech, society. Key ...
Automatic dialogue generation demonstrated in an international conference on games
Automatic dialogue generation demonstrated in an international conference on games How does natural language generation relate to games? These two concepts that are seemingly far away from each other are surprisingly related. In the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2019), two doctoral ...
Thermal cameras hold promise for improved energy management in smart buildings
Thermal cameras hold promise for improved energy management in smart buildings Improving energy management of buildings is among the most promising application areas of new technology for sustainable living. The Pervasive Data Science Group of the University of Helsinki is experimenting with thermal cameras ...
Collaboration with Novartis in the field of Bayesian modelling
Collaboration with Novartis in the field of Bayesian modelling With support from HIIT, Topi Paananen from the Probabilistic Machine Learning (PML) group at Aalto University, recently did a 3-month research visit to the pharmaceutical company Novartis in Switzerland. During the visit, Topi and his collaborators worked ...
Aalto’s Data Management Group develops cross-disciplinary collaboration in computational social science
Aalto's Data Management Group develops cross-disciplinary collaboration in computational social science Marta Kołczyńska was a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science of Aalto University from 21 April to 23 June, 2019. Marta is a post-doctoral researcher in sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and ...