Everyday choices: Russell Lai, what do swordsmanship and cryptography have in common?
Assistant Professor Russell Lai wields mathematical symbols and German longswords.
Ask a scientist: How will AI affect creativity?
The impact of creative AI is unfolding before our eyes, yet we struggle to understand it. It’s the perfect time to ask researchers what they see and think.
Akseli Äikäs played several years at Retuperän WBK before starting to study information networks at Aalto
Akseli Äikäs is a third-year student of Information Networks and is also known as Audio Dubbado, the artistic misleader of the Retuperän WBK.
AI is transforming healthcare: 5 things to know
Regulation, validation and trust are key when AI is used in medical services, say FCAI and Aalto University experts.
Audio Dubbado: Retuperän WBK represents firefighter-like dignity and good manners
'After I had played in the fire brigade for a few years, I thought that maybe it would be good to have some excuse to spend so much time in Otakaari. I decided it was time to apply to study at Aalto.'
Engineering enzymes with AI
A research team from Aalto University and VTT will construct a virtual laboratory for enzyme engineering, which will allow human-AI collaboration to flourish.
Best doctoral theses and master's theses 2022 in the School of Science awarded
This year, six doctoral theses and five master's theses were granted awards
Service design contributes to ensuring the quality and suitability of digital services
Principal University Lecturer Johanna Bragge invited her colleagues from the School of Science and School of Arts, Design and Architecture to deliver a guest lecture
Avatars and genuine interaction
Aalto University’s researchers are contributing to the creation of redesigned maternity and child health clinics and positive childbirth experiences in their research projects. The visions seize the potential of technology, such as childbirth simulation in a 3D-video conference using an avatar, a virtual character. On the other hand, the researchers would also like to hold on to the best practices from the past, such as the traditional child health clinic card, genuine human interaction and the rotina tradition, visits by family and close-ones to meet the newborn and bring foods as a gift.
Five Aalto students belong to the Finnish Championship winning synchronised skating team Team Unique
The skaters studying at different Aalto schools are Aalto’s Urhea athletes
Salla Nicholls and Esko Evtyukov are thrilled to be the first engineering psychology students
Esko Evtyukov hopes to work in the games industry in the future and is currently working as a research assistant in Assistant Professor Robin Welsch's team, designing virtual reality experiments. Salla Nicholls, by contrast, dreams of combining data science and human-computer interaction.
Next-gen AI designers won’t crush human creativity
Researchers are developing truly helpful AI systems that improve designs while keeping humans in the loop
Scientists unravel the effects of new medication for advanced melanoma with the help of AI
Researchers at Aalto University, the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center have studied how a completely new treatment option affects the immune system in patients with advanced melanoma.
Aalto Digital Creatives launches annual Art & Tech Open Call development grant for creative industry projects
The Art & Tech Open Call seeks applications from artists and creatives who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of what is possible with technology.
Koen Van Leemput decodes medical scans with artificial intelligence
Greatest challenge is translating methods from lab settings to patient care, says Aalto University’s new professor
Parliament Sampo sheds light on a century’s worth of political debates
The new service will help researchers, journalists, and the public to understand and oversee democracy
Register for training in research data management and open science in spring 2023
Registration is open for the spring 2023 training!
'In our field, it would require quite a bit of effort to graduate unemployed'
Sami Nieminen graduated as a Master of Science in Technology in the summer of 2022, majoring in human-computer interaction.
Our five most read computer science stories of 2022
The past year has seen researchers at the Department of Computer Science explore new frontiers in several multidisciplinary subfields of the discipline. However, the dominant topic both in the media as well as in our most read stories has been artificial intelligence. See the top five below.
