Monthly Archives: December 2011
Open Tenure Positions: Two Professors in Computer Science and Software Engineering
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Aalto University is a new university with over a century of experience. Created from a high-profile merger between three leading universities in Finland – the Helsinki School of Economics, the Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Art and Design Helsinki – Aalto University opens up new possibilities for strong multi-disciplinary education and research. The university’s ambitious goal is to rank among the top universities in the world in its areas of specialization. At Aalto, there are 20,000 students and a staff of 4,500 including 340 professors. Aalto University School of Science invites applications for: TWO TENURE TRACK PROFESSOR … Read more
Dissertation in Energy Consumption of Mobile Devices, 20th of December 2011, M.Sc. Yu Xiao
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M.Sc. Yu Xiao will defend her dissertation “Modeling and managing energy consumption of mobile devices” in a public examination on Tuesday 20th of December at 12 o’ clock noon in lecture hall T2 at the CS building, Konemiehenti 2, Espoo. The opponent is Prof. Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Dissertation is supervised by Prof. Antti Ylä-Jääski, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dissertation investigates the energy consumption of mobile devices, and gives models that can precisely describe the energy consumption and its influential factors, such as system performance, network environment and application design. In addition, this … Read more
Guest lecture by Jon Crowcroft on Monday 19.12.2011
There will be an invited lecture by Jon Crowcroft on Monday 19.12. at 15:15 in Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Konemiehentie 2) in lecture room T2. Topic of the lecture is ”Opportunity is the Mother of Invention” – How Personal Delay Tolerant Networking led to Data Centric Networking & Understanding Social Networks. Jon Crowcroft has been the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge since October 2001. He has worked in the area of Internet support for multimedia communications for over 30 years. Three main topics of interest have been scalable multicast routing, practical approaches to traffic … Read more
Dissertation in Learning Technology, 9th of December 2011, Lis.Sc. (Tech.) Petri Ihantola
Lic. Sc. (Tech.) Petri Ihantola will defend his dissertation “Automated Assessment of Programming Assignments: Visual Feedback, Assignment Mobility, and Assessment of Students’ Testing Skills” on Friday December 9th, 2011 at 12 o’clock noon in Hall T2 at the Computer Science building, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. The thesis explores technical aspects of automated assessment of programming assignments with the focus on visual feedback, use of web-browsers to produce feedback, and use of mutation analysis to give feedback from unit tests written by students. Uploading students’ code to a server for testing is not the only way to give automated feedback. Most modern … Read more
Educational Tool Award to Rubyric and the Corresponding Systems Paper by Tapio Auvinen
Rubyric and the corresponding systems paper by Tapio Auvinen received Koli Calling 2011 Educational Tool Award in November 19th. Koli Calling is one of the leading international conferences dedicated to the exchange of research and practice relevant to Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Education Research in the Computing disciplines. This year, 3 out of 7 submitted systems papers were accepted, and among these Rubyric was awarded as the best system. Rubyric is an online tool that makes it easy to give written feedback to students. With the system, the teacher can construct a rubric that contains the evaluation criteria and feedback … Read more
A Team from Aalto Takes Second Place at NWERC 2011 Programming Contest
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North Western European Regional Contest (NWERC 2011) was held on Sunday November 27th in Bremen, Germany (Jacobs University). Aalto University sent 2 teams to this qualifier: Wave of Technology (Otto Ebeling, Janne Kokkala, and Ville Pettersson, in picture), and Segfault (Konsta Hölttä, Nuutti Hölttä, and Jaakko Kantojärvi). Wave of Techology achieved gold medals (2nd place) in this tough competition, and beat this time all the successful teams in NCPC (Nordic qualifiers in October) such as the teams from Chalmers University of Technology (SE) and University of Copenhagen (DK). Segfault was 24th, and the overall number of teams was 70 from nine … Read more
