Faculty members regularly serve as referees for international computer science journals and conferences (see Section 3). Some faculty members are also reviewers for various review publications, such as Computing Reviews and Mathematical Reviews. Many faculty members have served in the program committees of various conferences (see Section 3). Prof. Esko Ukkonen is the editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Computing. Prof. Heikki Mannila is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Assoc. Prof. Matti Mäkelä is an international coordinator of ACM SIGNUM Newsletter.
The department hosted the joint standardisation meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 WG7 and ITU-T SG4 Q.12/Q.14 in Helsinki, 14-25 July, 1997. The joint meeting covered 12 separate standardisation issues, and about 60 delegates were present from 13 countries.
The department organized the 6th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Helsinki in August 1997. About 80 researchers took part. The conference proceedings were edited by Gösta Grahne and published by IOS Press in the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series.