Annual Report 2010
Events 2010

Photographer: Marko Ikonen
13 January Centre of Excellence Algodan (Algorithmic Data Analysis) seminar 2010
27-30 Januray Studia Stemmatologica I
11 February Guest lecture: Flexible Data-centric Networking with the PADRES Publish/Subscribe System
Professor Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto
29 March Guest lecture: Keepon: A social robot for research, therapy, and entertainment
Marek Michalowski, Ph.D.
14 April Guest lecture: Taistelu verkkorikollisuutta vastaan
Mikko Hyppönen, F-Secure
15 April Guest lecture: End-to-Middle Authentication in Multi-Hop Networks
Tobias Heer, RWTH Aachen University
7 May Algodan Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
16 May Workshop: The 3rd Asia-Europe Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (AEWUC'10)
17-20 May Conference: The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010)
17 May Guest lecture: TRIC - A Trust and Reputation Infrastructure for Virtual Communities
Professor Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
19 May Guest lecture: Foundation Matters
Database Specialist and Independent Consultant C. J. Date
28 May Workshop: Workshop on Algorithms and Applications (WAA 2010), jubilee seminar for Professor Esko Ukkonen's 60th birthday
2 June The department's summer excursion to Tallinn
7 June Trial lecture: Oppivat aliavaruusluokittimet
Jorma Laaksonen, Aalto University
7 June Trial lecture: Hypoteesikokoelmien oppiminen
Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology
8 June Trial lecture: Piirreperusteinen tilastollinen malli kohteiden oppimiseksi ja havaitsemiseksi kuvista
Joni Kämäräinen, Lappeenranta University of Technology
8 June Trial lecture: Päättely ja oppiminen sekoitustiheysmalleissa
Jaakko Hollmén, Aalto University
9 June Strategy meeting of HIIT
11 June Trial lecture: Bayesiläisen päättelyn perusteet
Petri Myllymäki, University of Helsinki
16-20 August COMP-IT - FICS Summer School on Computation, Innovation and Information Technology
16 June Trial lecture: Defining Strategies for Assessing Software Quality Risks and Performing Software Quality Assurance
Dr. Jürgen Münch, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Kaiserslautern, Germany
16 June Guest lecture: Augmenting Interpersonal Communication with Haptic Feedback
Eve Hoggan PhD, TAUCHI, Tampereen yliopisto
22 June Guest lecture: Talk on computational visual neuroscience
Professor Jesus Malo, University of Valencia
19 August Doctoral dissertation: Construction of a glbal map of human gene expression - the process, tools and analysis
Margus Lukk
2 September Guest lecture: Exploring microRNA and mRNA Interactions and their Roles in Diseases in Data
Professor Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia
3 September Guest lecture: Aspect-oriented programming (AOP)
Dr. Vladimir Safonov, St. Petersburg University
9 September Guest lecture: Using Mobile Phones with Large Displays for Enhanced User Experience
Umar Rashid
13-15 September Workshop: The Fifth European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM 2010)
13-15 September Conference: The 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2010)
15-16 September Hecse Autumn School
30 September Guest lecture: Learning the dissimilarity between objects described by categorical attributes
Professor Rosa Meo, University of Torino
1 October Doctoral dissertation: Efficient search for statistically significant dependency rules in binary data
Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen
17-20 October International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems (LESS 2010)
25 October Doctoral dissertation: Computational Methods for Detecting Large-Scale Chromosome Rearrangements in SNP Data
Jussi Kollin
28-29 October Workshop: Workshop on Mass Spectrometry in Systems Biology (MSiB 2010)
6 November 22nd annual jubilee of TKO-äly (student union)
9 November Docent lecture: Challenges in Online Book Retrieval
Antoine Doucet, PhD
12 November Doctoral dissertation: Computational Methods for Reconstruction and Analysis of Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks
Esa Pitkänen
17 November Doctoral dissertation: Multi-user resource-sharing problem for the Internet
Andrey Lukyanenko
18 November Guest lecture: Time-Consistency Problem in the Long Term Decision Making
Professor Leon Petrosjan, St. Petersburg State University
20 November Doctoral dissertation: Cross-layer Assisted TCP Algorithms for Vertical Handoff
Laila Daniel
26 November Department Christmas party
1 December Guest lecture: Guest lecture especially for students: Pelit ja peliala
Olli Sinerma, Pelit Magazine
2 December HIIT Christmas party
10 December Kumpula campus Christmas party
15 December Inauguration lecture: Interacting with Computers beyond Direct Manipulation: from windows, menus and mouse to implicit and embodied interaction
Professor Giulio Jacucci
15 December Inauguration lecture: Algoritmitutkimuksen rooli bioinformatiikassa
Professor Veli Mäkinen
17 December Department Christmas coffee