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Two computer science articles have been made into videos
The videos have been made for the cross disciplinary Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining KDD 2016.
Restaurant Day turns the logic of retail successfully on its head
Retail is not only economic exchange, but also an important part of social interaction.
ERC Proof of Concept to Mikko Möttönen
The Proof of Concept grant will be used to develop commercial applications.
New record in microwave detection
Aalto University researchers have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection.
Potential for distributed photovoltaics in urban Chile
Aalto-Chile collaboration addresses Chile's solar potential: Photovoltaics in cities could satisfy 22% of Chile’s electricity demand.
The CQE funding to Sillanpää, Hakonen and Paraoanu
5 applications were submitted by the deadline in May.
Baker's yeast to help in fight against blue-green algal toxins
A team of students from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki will take part in the iGEM competition a world-wide, synthetic biology event.
Surgify technology to make cranial surgery safer and faster
An innovation refined at Aalto may aid physicians and patients in just over a year.
Professor of Practice Antti Suhonen's paper accepted in the Journal of Portfolio Management
"Quantifying Backtest Overfitting in Alternative Beta Strategies", forthcoming in the Journal of Portfolio Management.
Matthijs Lof appointed as Assistant Professor in Finance (2. term)
Assistant Professor of Finance Matthijs Lof has been appointed for a second term at the Department of Finance.
Skype data of 500 million people reveals the real patterns of social adoption
Global patterns of adoption spreading are induced by local adoption cascades.
Economics research increasingly of interest also to women
The Department of Economics has seen around a dozen women defending their doctoral theses over the last two years.
Researchers implemented a prototype for Narrowband Internet-of-Things system
This is among the first standalonemode NB-IoT, Narrowband Internet-of-Things, implementations in the world.
Researchers discover attacks against widely used cryptographic libraries
The researchers fixed the vulnerability by editing the code in a way that the attacker cannot learn the secret key of the victim.
Saija Hollmén appointed Vice Dean at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Ms Hollmén’ area of responsibility is art and creative practices.
Päivi Törmä appointed Academy Professor
The results of Törmä’s work are expected to pave the way to the development of room temperature superconductors.
Acoustics researcher finds explanation for auroral sounds
Sounds are born when charges in the lower atmosphere’s temperature inversion layer discharge as a result of geomagnetic storms.
Digital platforms are underutilised in Finland
According ºÚÁÏÍø University researchers, Finnish Mittelstand companies do not utilise digital platforms.
Environmental drainage channel decreases amount of substances transported to the water system
Land drainage, the morphological status of channels and the quality of water can be improved with compound channels.
Finland number 1 in digitalization
Finland rose to the top position in the Digibarometer 2016, an annual study comparing the stage of digitalization in 22 countries.
