On the 13th of December Lidia Feklistova defended her PhD thesis on „Learners of an introductory programming MOOC: background variables, engagement patterns and performance” We constantly improve our knowledge and skills to be successful. Participation in massive open online courses (MOOCs) supports ongoing professional development and lifelong learning. Keeping in mind the huge number of participants in […]

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 […]

On the 9th of December Jakob Mass defended his PhD thesis on „Process management for Internet of mobile things“. The Internet of Things (IoT) promotes solutions such as a smart city, where everyday objects connect with info systems and each other. One example is a road condition monitoring system, where connected vehicles, such as buses, […]

To explain the importance of recognising and mitigating the impact of phishing attacks, our institute organised a CyberPhish seminar on 13 October, which was attended by more than 35 participants, including educators and students, stakeholders of private and public sectors, and representatives from businesses, police and government. The aim of the CyberPhish “Safeguarding against Phishing […]

On the 30th of September, Mubashar Iqbal defended his PhD. thesis on “Reference Framework for Managing Security Risks Using Blockchain” which addresses the problem of traditional applications’ security risk management (SRM) using blockchain as a countermeasure solution and the SRM of blockchain-based applications. In the digital realm, software security has the utmost importance in making […]

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 […]

The cornerstone of democracy is the right for voters to participate in free and fair elections. However, securing elections is a non-trivial task due to the conflicting security requirements.  On the one hand, to provide the freedom to vote, it should not be possible to coerce voters into voting for a specific candidate. Therefore, the […]

Arvutiteaduse instituudi magistrantidel on võimalus IT-tööstusmagistrantuuri raames lõpetada oma õpingud kahes tööstusettevõttes: RAITWOODis ning Estiko-Plastaris. Äppide ajastul kipuvad noored spetsialistihakatised praktikale ja tööle hoopis mujale ja tööstusettevõtted pigem ei kipu unistuste sihtkohtade edetabelitesse. Kas see on õigustatud, et tööstusettevõtteid nähakse vähematraktiivsetena? Absoluutset tõde pole siinkohal võimalik välja selgitada, aga tegelikult on päris palju põhjuseid, miks […]

Kaur Alasoo on Tartu Ülikooli arvutiteaduse instituudi bioinformaatika lektor. Tema artikkel ilmus Õhtulehes 22. mail 2022. Tegu on eesti noorte teaduste akadeemia algatatud artiklisarjaga “ElemENTAarne”, kus noorteadlased kirjutavad põnevatest teadustulemustest ja näitavad, kuidas teadus meie elu rikastab. Miks on nii, et teadlased suutsid vähem kui aastaga välja arendada mitu konkureerivat koroonaviiruse vastast vaktsiini, aga meil […]

More than 2000 participants were involved in cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2022 that took place from April 19 to 22. This year, one of the venues of the event was the Delta Centre in Tartu. Employees of the HPC Center of the University of Tartu and the Institute of Computer Science participated in the […]

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 […]

Ilmar Uduste õpib arvutiteaduse instituudis andmeteadust. See eriala muudab IT-lahendused nutikaks ning loob väärtust igasse valdkonda. Andmeteadust õppima tulles peab sul olema bakalaureuse kraad ning läbi tehtud vähemalt 60 ainepunkti ulatuses infotehnoloogia, matemaatika või statistika õppeaineid.  Ma õppisin bakalaureuse tasemel Tartu Ülikoolis materjaliteadust, see on üsnagi interdistsiplinaarne eriala, mis ühendab endas nii füüsika, keemia kui […]