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Annual report 2005

Events 2005

Participants in the CAPS conference setting out for Suomenlinna.

January

18th
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Life in metamorphosis: control and awareness in a proactive home environment (morphome).
Professor Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere

In proactive computing, a system can adapt to the user's movements and actions without constant adjustment of the computer by the user. The series of guest lectures, which continued all spring, presented projects in the PROACT 2002-2005 research programme (www.aka.fi/proact) funded by the Finnish Academy, TEKES and the French Ministry of Research.

25th
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Context recognition by user situation data analysis (Context)

Professor Hannu Toivonen and Researcher Mika Raento, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

February

22nd
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: The power of thought: Brain-computer interface technology

Researchers Laura Kauhanen and Tommi Nykopp, Helsinki University of Technology

March

1st
Guest lecture: Clustering and Indexing Methods for High Dimensional Data and Moving Objects

Dimitris Papadopoulos

Lecture for the Kumpula colloquium: Algorithms for data analysis and the teeth of land mammals

Academy Professor Heikki Mannila's lecture in a joint series of lectures for the Kumpula campus.

Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Designing proactive computing – a behaviourist viewpoint (Context)

Research Director, Professor Martti Mäntylä and Researcher Antti Oulasvirta, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

8th
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Networks and architectures for proactive systems (Naps)

Professor Pekka Orponen and Professor Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology

 

Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Sit in the chair – know your condition (proactive health monitoring. ProHeMon)

Managing Director Väinö Turjanmaa, Regional imaging centre, Pirkanmaa hospital district.

22nd

Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Methods and models for intelligent garment design: an interdisciplinary approach to accessible and usable wearable products (MeMoGa)

Professor Minna Uotila and project group, University of Lapland

29th
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Computers – what about feelings and machines? (Wireless UIs)
Senior Assistant Veikko Surakka, University of Tampere

April

5th
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Sensing and understanding human actions with machine vision (Provision)

Professor Matti Pietikäinen, University of Oulu

12th

Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Proactive information retrieval by adaptive models of users' attention and interests (Prima)

Professor Samuel Kaski, University of Helsinki

19th
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Adaptive mobile services – design parameters and user experience factors (Adamos)

Professor Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu

26th
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Adaptive middleware platform for proactive and reconfigurable systems (Ampros)

Professor Juha Tuominen, Helsinki University of Technology

27th
Demonstration day for software engineering projects

The software engineering students demonstrated their projects, such as “User interface for superconducting magnetometer” and “Semantic search engine for the Klaffi video archive.”

May

3rd
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Proactive agents as aid for children's investigative learning (Proagents)

Senior Assistant Marjatta Kangassalo and Professor Roope Raisamo with research group, University of Tampere

3rd
Mini conference for the course Scientific writing: students practiced giving conference papers.

10th
Colloquium on proactive computing – Does the computer know what you want to do next?: Behaviour modelling in context-aware systems (Beacon)

Professor Juha Röning, University of Oulu

27th
Dissertation: Summarization Techniques for Pattern Collections in Data Mining

Taneli Mielikäinen

June

7th
Guest lecture: Reliable identification of significant sets of episodes in event sequences
Robert Gwadera


14th
Guest lecture: Conservative Approaches to Pattern Discovery in Biosequences
Dr Cinzia Pizzi, University of Padova

16th-17th
CAPS conference

CAPS (Context Awareness for Proactive Systems) was arranged by the Department of Computer Science, HIIT and the PROACT research programme.

July

28th-31st
The department participated in the Assembly event for young computer enthusiasts at the Hartwall Arena.

August

18th
Guest lecture: Visual Tools for Collaborative Decision Making in E-learning Madhumita Bhattacharya

23rd
Guest lecture: Statistical Foundations and Properties of the Minimum Description Length Principle
Professor Andrew Barron, Department of Statistics, Yale University

24th
Guest lecture: Consequences of Minimum Description Length for Neural Nets and Gaussian Mixtures
Professor Andrew Barron, Department of Statistics, Yale University

25th
Guest lecture: Fully Incremental LCS Computation
Dr Shunsuke Inenaga, Department of Informatics, Kyushu University , Japan

29th
Guest lecture: Outdoor Distributed Computing
Professor Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University , USA

September

15th
Guest lecture: ModelGen: Model Independent Schema Translation
Paolo Atzeni

20th
Guest lecture: Probabilistic models of dynamic interactions
Ata Kaban, University of Birmingham , UK

23rd
Guest lecture: Future Directions in Systems Research.
Professor Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University , Tokio

29th
Guest lecture: Molecular feature mining
Professori Luc de Raedt, University of Freiburg

30th
Department day

The programme included memories from the history of the department, presentations of project groups, and games developed in student projects.

October

4th
Guest lecture: "nFOIL: Integrating Naive Bayes and FOIL"
Niels Landwehr, University of Freiburg

14th
Guest lecture: Recent steps in mobile ad hoc networking
Nokia Fellow Charles E. Perkins

12th
Guest lecture: Estimating haplotype frequencies efficiently
Dr Eran Halperin, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley

12th

Information meeting

ICT as promoters of globally sustainable development – a different starting point for career choices?
Speakers: Toni Eliasz and Jaakko Kurhila

18th
Guest lecture: Convolutive Blind Source Separation for Speech Enhancement
Professor Scott C. Douglas, Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

November

11th
Guest lecture: Java-Native Integration: Solutions and Open Issues
Dr Cristiano di Flora ( Nokia Research Center , Tampere )

16th
Symposium: Towards a Finnish semantic web

The symposium presented experiences from TEKES' technology programme Fenix on the development of practical applications with ontologies, ontology services and the semantic web

18th
Guest lecture: Stochastic models for XML document classification and semi-structured document mapping
Professor Patrick Gallinari

19th
Dissertation: Advanced Document Description, a Sequential Approach
Antoine Doucet

18th
Guest lecture: Multiword Unit Extraction and Efficiency
Assistant Professor Gaël Dias ( University of Beira Interior , Portugal )

30th
Event on online teaching at Faculty of Science

During this first event on online teaching event, three different ways of teaching online that are used at the Department of Computer Science were presented.

December

1st
Mini conference for the course Scientific writing: students gave presentations of their theses

2nd
Finishing seminar for the PROACT research programme

Presentations and demonstrations of the programme research projects.

16th
Opening of the Gamics lab

The lab focuses on the technical side of computer games; artificial intelligence, software engineering, computer graphics and computational problems.