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Our five most read computer science stories of 2023

Researchers at the Department of Computer Science have explored new frontiers in computational social science, machine learning and various other subfields in 2023. Our readers were most interested in stories that dealt with love, information security and creativity. See the top five below.
Computer Science research image, processor of a computer, photo: Matti Ahlgren
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Billions of individuals depend on security protocols crafted by Professor Emerita Kaisa Nyberg

Kaisa Nyberg's career has taken her from radio encryption algorithms to international standardisation work and finally to professor at Aalto University. According to Nyberg, the biggest contribution of her career lies in her role as a mentor to students

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Professori Kaisa Nyberg istuu isolla tuolilla Aalto-yliopiston tietotekniikan talossa, tasutalla on viherkasveja

One in four internet users are overwhelmed by the clutter in their browser

Study reveals that some coping strategies only make the problem worse

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Ask a scientist: How will AI affect creativity?

The impact of creative AI is unfolding before our eyes, yet we struggle to understand it. It’s the perfect time to ask researchers what they see and think.

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Online games use dark designs to collect player data

The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new study from Aalto University

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Illustration of a gamer dressed in yellow, playing a video game on the right side of the picture. Big green hands controlling a massive controller on the left side, with green lines connecting to the player from behind.

Where do we feel love?

New research sheds light on where and how we feel different kinds of love

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The types of love form a gradient in intensity and in how widely they're felt throughough the body. Image: Philosophical Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2252464.
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Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (external link)

The Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI is a research hub initiated by Aalto University, the University of Helsinki, and the Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT. The goal of FCAI is to develop new types of artificial intelligence that can work with humans in complex environments, and help modernize Finnish industry. FCAI is one of the national flagships of the Academy of Finland.

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DeployAI Partners Gather for Heart Beat Meeting in Helsinki

The European DeployAI project's partners gathered for the Heart Beat meeting hosted by Aalto University Executive Education in Helsinki.
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Get to know us: Associate Professor Maria Sammalkorpi

Sammalkorpi received her doctorate from Helsinki University of Technology 2004. After her defence, she has worked as a researcher at the Universities of Princeton, Yale and Aalto.
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Aalto computer scientists in ICML 2024

Computer scientists in ICML 2024
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In low-hierarchy organisations, even key policy issues are discussed in Slack

In a recent study, Aalto University alumn Lauri Pietinalho, a visiting scholar at New York University's Stern School of Business, and Frank Martela, an assistant professor at Aalto University, investigated how low-hierarchy organisations deal with shared policies in confrontational situations and how authority functions within them.