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Info-session on Future Makers Funding Programme - May 14 at 13:00
Welcome to the info-session on Future Makers Funding Programme on May 14, 13:00, CS-building. The programme supports high-level research openings with relevance to the future of Finnish industries and the society.
Designing an internet for dogs
Every day, millions of dogs are left alone in houses full of internet-connected devices: could getting dogs talking to each other online improve their wellbeing?
Five new Academy Research Fellow and three Postdoctoral Researcher posts
The new posts are funded by the Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment, and Research Council for Culture and Society.
FOAMING installation by ELO artist-researchers in the Venice Research Pavilion #3 opening week
The installation is part of AIRA Artistic Intelligence Research Alternator project, one of the seven “research cells” of the nearly 4-month event.
Brain scans on movie watchers reveal how we judge people
Researchers used brain scans to reveal the biases people feel towards people who are like them, even if they can’t see that they are like them
Solving the construction productivity puzzle with digital situation awareness
Aalto University researchers believe they have found the reason to why digitalisation hasn't produced the expected boost in productivity.
Aalto Team Win AI Research Award
Research into easier-to-interpret deep learning methods win prestigious Notable Paper award at AISTATS2019
New methods in fashion and clothing design
Aalto Fashion’s New Construction Methods exhibition presents creative approaches and experiments in fashion and clothes design and manufacture in Dipoli in April.
Professor Olli Ikkala wins Dutch Polymer Science award
The annual PTN Medema Lecture award is granted to a renowned international polymer scientist
Heavy metal music and Finnish identity are deeply intertwined
Academy Research Fellow Toni-Matti Karjalainen knows how Finnish metal music contributes to the Finnish country brand.
Getting a PhD in watching Twitch: exploring why millions watch people play video games
In his doctoral dissertation, Max Sjöblom examines services like YouTube and Twitch and tries to understand why people keep watching others play video games
Jussi Rintanen knows how to find the right option from among the countless possibilities
Algorithm-based artificial intelligence can help optimise bus routes, factories and work shift lists. It can also be used to automate the much of current software development.
Oh, a new object! I wonder how it works? A robot can learn by experimentation
Aalto University is involved in a research project which aims to make robots try out new things and thus learn how to use them without precise pre-programming.
Sofia Pantouvaki: A born researcher
The professor of costume design is an endlessly inquisitive soul who never imagined she would have a career in Finland
Listeners immerse themselves in audiobooks in very different ways – and this shows in the brain
In the future, a new brain research method could be used to study creativity
A photo of a black hole was a distant dream – until now
Aalto’s Tuomas Savolainen helped make history with the first image of a black hole located 55 million light years away
Astronomers capture first image of a black hole
Aalto University contributed to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of distant galaxy Messier 87
Increases in health care efficiency can also improve quality
Billions of euros could be saved in social welfare and health care with key changes.
A Needs Survey on Teaching Through English at Aalto
Staff who are teaching their subject content through English (not students): You are invited to participate in this needs survey on teaching through English at Aalto University. The purpose of the survey is to guide us in developing the support services for teaching through English within Aalto University in a way that better serves your needs.
Professor Karttunen had enough of clicking on two-dimensional molecular models – the virtual world brings chemistry alive
Virtual reality helps students to understand the three-dimensional nature of chemistry.
