CoSCo News

The tutorial was part of the 5-day workshop on Theoretical Foundations of Applied SAT Solving at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Canada.

The article Complexity-Sensitive Decision Procedures for Abstract Argumentation, co-authored by CoSCo-CoReO researcher Matti Järvisalo with Wolfgang Dvořák, Johannes Peter Wallner, and Stefan Woltran from TU Vienna, appears in the top journal Artificial Intelligence, 206:53-78, 2014. [doi:10.1016/j.artint.2013.10.001]

Arto Klami was appointed as Academy Research Fellow for a period of five years, starting in September 1st 2013. He will be working on his project "Traces of Information: Intelligence from fragmented data", developing new probabilistic machine learning techniques for understanding the digital traces of human activity.

Kazuho Watanabe received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002, 2004, and 2006, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow and a research associate in the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.

Andrew R. Barron is a professor of statistics at Yale University, where he has served as Chair of Statistics from 1999-2006. His research interests include the study of information-theoretic properties in the topics of probability limit theory, statistical inference,
high-dimensional function estimation, neural networks, model selection, communication, universal data compression, prediction, and investment theory.

Petri Myllymäki and Teemu Roos will be co-chairs of the 6th Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering (WITMSE-2013), held in Tokyo, Japan on August 26-29, 2013.

SAT 2013, 16th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, takes place July 8-12, 2013 in Helsinki, Finland.

SAT 2013 Program Committee Chairs are Matti Järvisalo (HIIT and University of Helsinki) and Allen Van Gelder (UCSC, USA).

For more details, visit http://sat2013.cs.helsinki.fi/

CoSCo is welcoming applications for a PhD student in machine learning, to work with Arto Klami in the "Traces of Information: Intelligence from fragmented data", with application closing date in August 12th. See http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=70212 for details and application instructions.

As of April 1, Teemu Roos (PhD in 2007 from University of Helsinki) was appointed as assistant professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki.

Teemu Roos and Arttu Modig of Cosco and Antti Oulasvirta (MPI-Saarbrucken) present the paper  "Information Capacity of Full Body Movements" at the CHI-2013 conference, Paris. The paper receives a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award. There will also be interactive Kinect-based demonstrations of the work at the conference interactivity sessions.

Dr. James Cussens is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Computer Science at the University of York, UK. He works on machine learning, particularly Bayesian statistics, probabilistic graphical models and statistical relational learning. He is also a member of the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis and is involved in interdisciplinary research including philosophy, statistical genetics, discrete optimisation and toxicology. He received his PhD in Philosophy of Science from King's College, London in 1991.

More information: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/news/76211

Link to workshop page: ITA-2013.

Keywords: Machine learning, computational statistics, Bayesian statistics, information-theoretic learning, satisfiability checking, proactive interfaces, computational biology

Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT conducted the first longitudinal study on the effects of ubiquitous surveillance at home. To understand the effects of continuous computerized surveillance on individuals, researchers at HIIT instrumented ten Finnish households with video cameras, microphones, and logging software for personal computers, wireless networks, smartphones, TVs, and DVDs. The twelve participants filled monthly questionnaires to report on stress levels and were interviewed at six and twelve months.

The title of the talk is "Somebody Needs Your Algorithm - Cloud'N'Sci.fi". More information on the company home page.

Kazuho Watanabe received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002, 2004, and 2006, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow and a research associate in the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.

For details on IJCAR 2012, see the conference website.

The new Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference (COIN) has opened a Call for applications: 10 Postdocs / Research Associates in Computational Inference.