Faculty members regularly serve as referees for international computer science journals and conferences. 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 organized the 6th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching in Helsinki in July 1995. The conference proceedings was edited by Zvi Galil and Esko Ukkonen and it was published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.