To strengthen and improve the key competencies in blockchain technology, our institute organized a BLISS workshop on November 9, which was attended by more than 65 participants from both the industry and the university. The aim of BLISS “Blockchain skills for ICT professionals” is to develop a blockchain course for ICT professionals, which helps to […]

On the 6th of June 2019, the paper “D2IA: Stream Analytics on User-Defined Event Intervals” won the best paper award in the 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’19), which was written by Ahmed Awad, Riccardo Tommasini, Mahmoud Kamel, Emanuele Della Valle and Sherif Sakr. CAiSE is one of the oldest and top […]

On June 7, Mohan Liyanage, who is an assistant in the Chair of Distributed Systems defended his doctoral thesis “A framework for mobile web of things” in which he presents an energy efficient lightweight mobile web service provisioning framework for mobile sensing utilizing the protocols that were designed for the constrained Internet of Things environment. […]

Digitaalsete mängude tootja Edvin Aedma jagab meiega enda kogemust sellest, kuidas üks Keith Devlini ettekanne inspireeris teda tegelema matemaatilisi oskusi arendavate arvutmängudega ning mõjutas Tartu Ülikooli arvutiteaduse instituuti. Aastal 2011 külastas Tartu Ülikooli arvutiteaduse instituuti Keith Devlin ja pidas loengu matemaatika ja videomängude õpetamise vahelisest sünergiast. Mäletan, et instituudi direktor Jaak Vilo pööras oma sissejuhatavas […]

Digital games producer Edvin Aedma tells us how one presentation from Keith Devlin inspired him to take up teaching game development and how it affected UniTartuCS. Sometimes before 2012, Keith Devlin visited Institute of Computer Science at University of Tartu and gave a rather fascinating lecture about the synergy between teaching mathematics and videogames. I […]

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 […]

Noored Koodi meeskond korraldas 16. veebruaril juba teise IT-alase võistluse, kus osales kokku üle 45 õpilase üle Eesti. Päeva jooksul said osalejad end proovile panna virtuaalreaalsuses, programmeerimiskeele Python tundmises, algoritmikas ja veebilehe loomisel. Üritusel külastati virtuaalreaalsuse laborit. Päev algas võistluse korraldaja Magnar Varese tervitussõnade ja projektijuhi Heilo Altini ning Magnari tutvustusega sellest, kuidas nad IT valdkonda […]