On 25 January, Mahir Gulzar defended his doctoral thesis „Addressing Real-world Scenarios via Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving“. To mark the occasion, Professor Jaak Vilo, Head of the Institute of Computer Science, interviewed Mahir about how his journey in the world of research has unfolded. If you had to describe your PhD in one sentence […]

On December 21, Madis Vasser defended his PhD thesis „Testing a Computational Theory of Brain Functioning with Virtual Reality“. In his thesis, he investigated the concept of active inference (AI) using virtual reality (VR) devices. During the work they developed VR software, conducted experiments on human study participants and compiled a set of guidelines for […]

Hiljaaegu avaldasime blogis loo „TÜ tudengid saavutavad programmeerimisvõistlustel suurepäraseid tulemusi“. Et avada võistlusprogrammeerimise telgitaguseid, vestlesime ettevõtja Targo Tennisbergiga. Ta on Eesti informaatikaolümpiaadi üks eestvedajaid ning avaldanud Võistlusprogrammeerimise õpiku (PDF). Mis vahe on “tavalisel” ja “võistlusprogrammeerimisel” ? Umbes sama vahe nagu liinibussi ja ralliauto juhtimisel. Mingid oskused on samad, aga hulk asju on ka erinevad. Rallis […]

Rahvusvahelistel programmeerimisvõistlustel on Eesti esivõistkonnaks kujunenud Tartu Ülikooli meeskond Double Cycle Cover. Head tulemused viisid TÜ tudengid teist korda järjest maailma kõige mainekama programmeerimisvõistluse finaali. Viimasel ajal hoiavad rahvusvahelistel programeerimisvõistlustel Eesti ja Tartu Ülikooli lippu kõrgel tudengid Tähvend Uustalu (matemaatika 2. aasta tudeng), Andres Unt ja Oliver Nisumaa  (mõlemad matemaatika 3. aasta tudengid) ja Martin […]

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 […]

  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’) […]