Intelligent systems
Future information systems will incorporate more and more adaptive and intelligent features, and this sub-programme studies computational methods that can be used for designing and analyzing such systems. This field comprises several different areas of computer science, such as artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, artificial life, heuristic optimization algorithms and intelligent information retrieval methods.
The curriculum of intelligent systems includes many specialized courses. These courses typically require a good base in mathematics, an analytical mindset, as well as good programming and problem-solving skills. Furthermore, studies in the automation of intelligent behaviour are often cross-disciplinary in nature. In addition to the methodological courses on the three basic concepts (probability, information and decision-making) of this sub-programme, suitable courses are available from the application areas (such as robotics, string matching and data mining) or the introductory courses on artificial intelligence, data analysis and machine learning.
Research in intelligent systems mainly focuses on the basic problems in modelling and learning, including their applications in various fields from engineering to social sciences and medicine. Most of the research is carried out in two research groups that work in Kumpula; the Complex Systems Computation Group (CoSCo) studies probabilistic and information-theoretical modelling techniques as well as methods for intelligent information retrieval, and the Neuroinformatics research group studies applications of statistical data-analysis methods in neuroscience. These groups have carried out research in such areas as user profiling and personalisation, signal denoising, data visualization, modelling of the visual system of the brain, location-specific services in wireless networks and next-generation search engine technologies.
Contact person: Professor Petri Myllymäki
Teaching: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/alykkaat
Research: http://cosco.hiit.fi/ and http://www.hiit.fi/neuroinf