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Doctoral Dissertation, Jan-Erik Ekberg, Friday 24th of May

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Lic.Sc. (Tech.) Jan-Erik Ekberg will defend the dissertation “Securing Software Architectures for Trusted Processor Environments” on 24 May 2013 in lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. The dissertation examines how secure hardware fundaments in contemporary mobile processors can be used to implement trusted execution environments for the benefit of applications and end-user services. More information: http://sci.aalto.fi/en/current/events/vaitos_ekberg_jan_erik/

Doctoral Dissertation, Hannu Peltola, Friday 10th of May

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The following Doctoral Dissertation will be held (in Finnish) on Friday 10th of May at 12 noon in Hall T2: Hannu Peltola: Towards Faster String Matching Opponent: Ph.D. Juha Kärkkäinen, University of Helsinki Supervisor: Professor Jorma Tarhio, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. M.Sc. Hannu Peltola will defend the dissertation “Towards Faster String Matching” on 10th of May. Exact string matching is a much studied and popular problem. The task is to find the occurrences of a string pattern in a long text. We introduce several new algorithms for online exact string matching and study their experimental performance … Read more

Guest Lecture, Reijo Aarnio, Thursday 4.4. 12:15-14:45 T6

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The Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman Reijo Aarnio will give tomorrow a guest lecture at the Law in Network Society – course (12:15-14:45 @ T6). The main topic of the presention is the EU’s fortcoming Reform of data protection legislation, which will have rather huge impact on how personal data can be stored and used in the future. The lecture is in English.

Doctoral Dissertation, Mikael Johnson, Friday 15th of March

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The following Doctoral Dissertation will be held on Friday 15th of March at 12:00 am in Hall AS1. Mikael Johnson: How Social Media Changes User-Centred Design Opponent: Prof. Jan Gulliksen, KTH, Sweden Supervisor: Prof. Marko Nieminen, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Social media changes the game for user involvement in service design. Active user communities, fast paced iterative development, digital trails, peer production, and low-cost software distribution are well known facets that bring substantial changes. The question is, have the most important user involvement approaches—user-centred and participatory design as well as lead-user involvement—kept up with the changes, … Read more

Doctoral Dissertation, Ahmad Taherkhani, Friday 8th of March

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Ahmad Taherkhani: Automatic Algorithm Recognition Based on Programming Schemas and Beacons: A Supervised Machine Learning Classification Approach Opponent: Professor Tapio Salakoski, University of Turu Supervisor: Professor Lauri Malmi, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Lic.Sc.(Tech.) Ahmad Taherkhani will defend the dissertation “Automatic Algorithm Recognition Based on Programming Schemas and Beacons: A Supervised Machine Learning Classification Approach” on 8th March 2013 at 12 am in Hall T2. This dissertation introduces the techniques developed for automatic algorithm recognition and discusses the empirical studies conducted for evaluating the performance of the techniques. The techniques can be used, for example, in automatic … Read more

SoberIT Summer Internships 2013

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Software Business and Engineering Laboratory SoberIT is part of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Aalto University School of Science. At SoberIT, we are responsible for research and education related to software engineering including business and management aspects of software development. Our mission is to improve global competitiveness of the Finnish software industry by providing world-class education and research. We strive for research that is both practically relevant and of high academic quality. Our research projects are often carried out in close cooperation with industry, and are often multi-disciplinary and constructive in nature. Our staff consists of people with various … Read more

Summer jobs in Software Technology research area

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Doctoral Dissertation, Pin Nie, Friday 1st February

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Location: Lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, 02150, Espoo, FI M.Sc. (Tech.) Pin Nie will defend the dissertation “Multifaceted Optimization of Energy Efficiency for Stationary WSN Applications” on 1 February 2013 in lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. This dissertation investigates energy constraint in stationary wireless sensor network (S-WSN) applications, and presents our comprehensive solution to improve energy efficiency with multiple techniques. Opponent: Professor Thomas Peter Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway Supervising Professor: Professor Antti Ylä-Jääski, Aalto University School of Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Electronic dissertation: http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss

ACIO research program gets nearly two million euros multi-year funding

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Summer Internships in Data Communications Software

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The Data Communications Software research group belongs to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Aalto University. Our research covers cloud computing, energy efficiency in the Internet, Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communications, applications and services in Internet, security and privacy. We are hiring more than 10 summer interns for the summer 2013 for various areas in the Data Communications software major. See more details in http://cse.aalto.fi/research/groups/datacommunications/ and specifically our research portfolio: http://cse.aalto.fi/research/groups/datacommunications/projects/ From the summer trainees we expect successful studies and an interest in research work. Each intern will have a personal supervisor that guides the work during the … Read more