Risto Hinno on hea näide sellest, kuidas karjäär võib võtta põneva pöörde. Varasemalt digiteenuste tellijana töötanud Risto otsustas süvendada oma teadmisi IT-valdkonnas ning asus õppima Tartu Ülikooli arvutiteaduse instituudi magistriõppekaval „IT mitteinformaatikutele“ . Õpingute käigus avanes talle arenduse ja andmeteaduse maailm sedavõrd kaasahaaravalt, et see viis ta lõpuks ka idufirmasse tööle. Oma kogemusloos jagab ta ausalt teekonda […]

Toomas Gross on suure ja mitmekülgse akadeemilise kogemusega antropoloog, kes on töötanud aastaid õppejõu ja teadlasena. Oma töös jõudis ta arusaamani, et nüüdisaegne teadus ja õppetöö eeldavad üha enam ka tehnoloogilist ning andmeteaduslikku kirjaoskust. Soov end proovile panna ja intellektuaalsest mugavustsoonist väljuda viis ta Tartu Ülikooli arvutiteaduse instituudi magistriõppekava „IT mitteinformaatikutele“ alusel õppima. Kogemusloos kirjeldab […]

Kaspar Kala läbis Tartu Ülikooli arvutiteaduse instituudi magistriõppekava „IT mitteinformaatikutele“. Varem on ta õppinud õigusteadust nii Eestis kui ka Hollandis ning praegu töötab projektijuhi, analüütiku ja majasisese juristina. Kaspar on justkui sild kahe valdkonna, IT ja õiguse vahel. Loe Kaspari kogemuslugu informaatika õppimisest. Enne informaatikaõppesse kandideerimist määratlesin end eelkõige juristina. Lõpetanud õigusteaduse bakalaureuseõpingud Tartu Ülikoolis ja […]

Mohamed Abdelrahman shares his journey as a PhD student in the Data Systems Group at the University of Tartu, where he focuses on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) and aims to make AI more trustworthy and accessible. His story was introduced by Professor Jaak Vilo, Head of the Institute of Computer Science. Describe your thoughts when […]

The 25th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES) took place in Tartu from December 2–4, 2024. The conference brought more than 50 internationally renowned researchers and industry practitioners to Tartu, for interesting talks and discussions. Most participants came from Europe, mainly from Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden, but there were also participants from […]

Protests and conflicts have become influential forces for bringing about change and shaping the political and social landscapes not only on a local demographic level but also on a global scale. In the modern Internet and online social media era, protests have increasingly utilized digital platforms to facilitate discussions, coordinate actions, and spread respective agendas. […]

With the development of Online Social Media (OSM) platforms like Twitter and Facebook, the way individuals connect and exchange information has changed dramatically. These platforms have, however, also led to the problem of misinformation, which can quickly spread on a global scale, and once it has been disseminated, it can be hard to stop. It […]

Kea Kohv, Master Student in Data Science An interactive tool developed by Data Science Master’s student Kea Kohv helps find highly rated and popular data science books sold on Amazon. A query for data science books on Amazon returns thousands of results. That is a lot to skim through. In addition, if searching for highly […]

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 […]

Data privacy has become trending, and nowadays, people are talking more and more about it. With process mining, privacy becomes more relevant. Because process mining makes it easier to expose the actual business reality. With automatic process discovery, we can reverse engineer the activities that have been performed within the organization and the hand-offs between […]

Machine Translation is a quickly growing field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that automatically translates a text from one language to another without human involvement.  In recent years, the use of machine translation systems has increased dramatically. Today machine translation is used not only by translation agencies but also by people using online machine translation […]

Ilmar Uduste studies Data Science at the Institute of Computer Science. This specialisation makes IT solutions smart and creates value in every field. To take up studies in Data Science, you need to have a bachelor’s degree and completed at least 60 ECTS of courses of IT, mathematics or statistics.  I did my bachelor’s in […]