Alexander Nolte, Lecturer of Information Systems at the University of Tartu, and his colleagues from the US studied hackathons organised by companies to their employees. The goal was to identify which factors can lead to projects being continued after the hackathon is over and which benefits participating in a hackathon can have on individual careers. […]

Author: Phuong Nguyen “High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of super computers and parallel processing techniques for solving complex computational problems. Nowadays, HPC plays an important role in the field of computational science, and are used for a wide range of computationally intensive tasks in various fields, including quantum mechanics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil […]

Author: Heisi Kurig Receiving a grant from the European Research Council might seem rather impossible. The rates for success are quite low, competition very tough, and you feel that you are not yet ready to write a successful application. Nevertheless, you should cast aside these doubts and apply for an ERC grant this season all ready. […]

Write-up by Ilya Kuzovkin of our publication in Nature Communications Biology that is a result of a long research carried out by myself, Jaan Aru and Raul Vicente from Computational Neuroscience Lab and our collaborators from Neuroscience Research Center in Lyon, France. Human visual cortex, the system we use to perceive the world around us, consists […]

Authors: Jaak Vilo, Heisi Kurig, Marlon Dumas On May 23-24, we held a workshop for preparing applications for European Research Council (ERC) grant schemes was held in Tartu. The workshop was aimed at future ERC applicants for starting and consolidator schemes. Speakers were experienced people – ERC grant holders describing their personal stories, grant office, […]

  Institute of Computer Science organizes public seminars on various topics related to data science. In March 15, the seminar topic was autonomous vehicles. We had several intriguing guest speakers, including Andrej Karpathy, the Director of AI at Tesla, who told us about the technology behind Tesla’s self-driving cars. While Andrej’s (and Starship’s Lindsey Roberts’) […]