By Ida Maria Orula This semester’s last meeting for the Industrial Masters’21 (as in “class of 2021”) began with an introduction from the students from the GedMed project and continued with working on personal development sheets that this time students will take as an input for the autumn semester. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic was […]

Spring semester 2019/20 has become the first official semester for Sandbox as it was the first semester when Sandbox activities took place in its own space in the newly opened Delta Centre. Sandbox is a design thinking and digital product management programme for master’s students at the University of Tartu. Even though we call it […]

By Miras Kenzhegaliyev and Brandon Christopher Autrey On April 9, the third intake of the Industrial Master’s Programme met for their third meeting to discuss different Master’s Thesis topic types. This meeting was supposed to be held at the Pipedrive office where Brandon and Miras are working, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic had to […]

On February 27, the thirds intake second gathering took place in the Delta Centre, where they met the third intake to discuss their motivations for joining the programme and to put together a plan for how every student can develop the skills they want. Since we keep talking about different intakes and it might be […]

On March 23, Adriano Augusto defended his PhD thesis „Accurate and efficient discovery of process models from event logs„ in which he provided an overview of the available algorithms to perform automated process discovery. They identified deficiencies in existing algorithms, and proposed a new algorithm, called Split Miner, which is faster and consistently discovers more […]

This year began the third intake of the Industrial Master’s Programme in IT and we thought it is about time for us to create a journal, where we will describe the experience and explain the wonder that the Industrial Master’s Programme in IT is. In the future, we will write regular blog posts about seminars, […]

On the 21st of February, Faiz Ali Shah defended his PhD thesis on “Extracting information from app reviews to facilitate software development activities” which evaluates the existing Text Mining techniques for extracting developer-relevant information from app reviews at different levels of granularity, and then combined these techniques to develop a tool REVSUM for competitive analysis. […]

On the 17th of December, Huishi Yin defended her PhD on “Using a Kano-like Model to Facilitate Open Innovation in Requirements Engineering” which combines a well-known approach to enhance satisfaction of software users, the Kano model, with modern approaches to gather information from online data sources to facilitate open innovation in the context of software […]

Dietmar Pfahl, Professor of Software Engineering, co-authored the article “Synergies between Education, Training, and Research: How the Institute of Computer Science does Industry-Relevant Research in Software Engineering”. Doing industry-relevant research is the mission of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu. This new publication in one of the top-notch software engineering journals […]

gProfiler (https://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler) is a toolset for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists that is now available also at Galaxy platform (https://usegalaxy.eu and https://galaxy.hpc.ut.ee/). Galaxy is meant for supporting data intensive research in a convenient manner through building and using custom workflows. Biological data analysis often deals with lists of genes arising from various […]

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 […]

This October the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Garage48 and Startup Estonia organized a Cyber Security hackathon, which was attended by almost 100 developers, designers, experts, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts in order to create new cyber security solutions, for the benefit of humanity. Out of 17 pitched ideas 10 teams were formed. The winner […]