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 […]

Jaak Vilo, Kallol Roy Algorithmics (MTAT.03.238) is an obligatory course in the Computer Science MSc curriculum. As such it is intended to remind everyone of the foundations of algorithms and data structures but also to go beyond and teach some more advanced concepts (like succinct data structures, for example).  The course aims at linking different […]

We are currently in the process of significant changes in the communications paradigms. Among others, one of the changes is moving to cloud-based services instead of using local applications (Office365, Youtube, Spotify, etc.). We can argue about the motivation of this trend, but this allows us to provide the customers with the most up-to-date solutions […]

On the 15th of March, our doctoral student Yauhen Yakimenka defended his PhD thesis on the intersection of two different fields of computer science: error-correction codes and compressed sensing. Most of the information on the internet is now transmitted over fibre optics. It’s extremely fast, but it comes with a price: now the erros also […]

Institute of Computer Science Professor of Engineering Dietmar Pfahl has co-authored a paper “Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys”. This publication is an outcome of the NaPiRE (Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering) project. The objective of the NaPiRE project is to establish a valid foundation for a […]

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 […]

  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’) […]