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Department of Computer Science 2015

Department of Computer Science 2015. Faculty of Science University of Helsinki. University of Helsinki. The largest and the oldest university in Finland Key data for 2014 35 0 00 students 8 200 employees 300 subjects 5 850 degrees/year 480 PhDs/year Founded in Turku 1640

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Department of Computer Science 2015

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  1. Department of Computer Science 2015 Faculty of Science University of Helsinki Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  2. University of Helsinki • The largest and the oldestuniversity in Finland • Key data for 2014 • 35 000 students • 8 200 employees • 300 subjects • 5 850 degrees/year • 480 PhDs/year • Founded in Turku 1640 • Moved to Helsinki 1828 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  3. Faculty of Science / Kumpula Campus • Departments • Chemistry • Computer science • Geosciences and Geography • Mathematics and Statistics • Physics Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  4. Department of Computer Science • Leading institution in Computer Science in Finland • Students and employees 2014 • 1 727 students (53 PhDstudents; nearly 30 000 credits) • 266 employees (168.7 FTE, 31.9% foreign, 20.3 % female) • Part of the Faculty of Science • Located in Exactum, Kumpula Campus • Renowned for high quality of research and teaching Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  5. Teaching • BScprogramme and four MSc programmesspezialising into • Algorithms, Data Analytics and Machine Learning • AlgorithmicBioinformatics • Networking and Services • Software Systems • A studyprofile in Data Science • MostMSccourses in English • Teaching is based on research • New activity: MOOCs • National unit of excellence in highereducation (Ministry of Education), 2007-2009 and 2010-2012 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  6. MOOCs “I can see a day soon where you’ll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world — paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. It will change teaching, learning and the pathway to employment.” - Thomas Friedman in NYTimes 27 Jan 2013 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  7. Research • Focal areas of research • Data analysis • Networking and services • Software research • Novelareas: security, human-computerinteraction, computationalcreativity, big data, Internet of Things, cloudcomputing • PhDeducation • Theory & applications & co-operation • Basic research & applied research • Core computer science & modern areas Research highlight 2014: Computational poetry in Frankfurt Book Fair Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  8. Professors of the department N. Asokan Security and privacy Aapo Hyvärinen Neuro-informatics Jussi Kangasharju Data networks and distributed systems Giulio Jacucci Interactive systems, HCI Jyrki Kivinen Machine learning, algorithms Jürgen Münch Software systems Tomi Männistö Software engineering Esko Ukkonen Algorithms, combinatorial pattern matching, bioinformatics, machine learning Sasu Tarkoma Distributed systems and data communications Hannu Toivonen Data mining, bioinformatics, comp creativity Valtteri Niemi Security Petri Myllymäki Intelligent systems, probability models Veli Mäkinen Combinatorial pattern matching Jukka Paakki Software systems Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  9. Research • Some 25 researchgroups • Participating in several research units • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT • Joint research institute with Aalto University • Three FinnishCentres of Excellence (CoEs): • Cancer Genetics (CoECGR), • Computational Inference (COIN), and • Inversion Problems. • Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in ICT Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  10. Research quality • International quality confirmed in research evaluations • 1999 : 7/7 (UH international evaluation) • 2005 : 7/7 (UH international evaluation) • 2007: Academy of Finland: “... an obvious leader in computer science in Finland...” • 2011 UH international evaluation: one of the best departments Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  11. Funding in million euros Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  12. Number of publications Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  13. Degrees Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  14. Impact on science and society • High impact on computer science: • During 2014, total 188 refereed publications • High citation rates • Strong utilization of results: industrial co-operation, standards, spin-offs, software, patents • Extensive collaboration • International and domestic • In computer science and across disciplines • Impact also on other sciences • Investments into researcher training Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  15. Linux • The Linux OS • Started in 1991 and version 1.0 released in 1994 • Linux turns 25 years in 2016 • The department uses Linux since about 20 years • Linus Torvalds • Developer of the Linux OS was a student and employee at the department in 1988-1997 Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  16. ”A million dollar super computer”called Ukko • High performance cluster with 240 nodes • Highly computationally intensive tasks (data analysis, simulations) • Used both in research and education at the department • One of the most powerful clusters in Finland Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  17. Software Factory • Students work seven weeks, four or five full days a week • Focus on • Education • Entrepreneurship • Research • www.softwarefactory.cc • “Software Factory project was the best course I have ever had. Including my whole history of education.” • Tatu Kairi, University of Helsinki Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  18. NODES laboratory • Facility for supporting networking and services related research and teaching activities • Highlights • Software-defined networks • HCI Lab • Home gateway test-bed • Wireless experiments • Energy modelling • Connection to the Ukko cluster for combined real-life and simulation/ emulation experiments Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  19. Linkki centre • One of resource centres of the Finland’s Science Education Centre LUMA • Different activities in computer science for school children and young people • Clubs • Summer camps Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  20. Interaction Lab • Space where novel interaction in between human, computer, and the physical environment can be developed and experimented • Place for HCI experiments and design explorations Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

  21. More information • www.cs.helsinki.fi • Department of Computer Science • P.O.Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b) • FIN-00014 University of Helsinki • firstname.lastname@cs.helsinki.fi • Telephone: +358 2941 911 (switchboard) • Fax: +358 2914 51120 • info@cs.helsinki.fi Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science

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