Where academic tradition
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Welcome to TUCS!

Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) is a joint research institute of University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. TUCS conducts basic and applied research in computer science and engineering in four research programmes:

TUCS boasts a long history of high-level achievements of its affiliated researchers, in terms of articles in high-level journals and conferences, high number of citations, invitations to speak in the most important conferences in the field, and memberships in editorial boards of many high-level international journals. TUCS has been a Center of Excellence of Research of the Academy of Finland in the very first round of such centers in Finland, 1995-1999. A unit of TUCS, the Centre for Reliable Software Technology (CREST), has also been a Center of Excellence during 2002-2007. Two  Academy Professors, as well as three FIDIPRO professors have been / are affiliated with TUCS. TUCS is hosting the research activity of Academician Arto Salomaa.

Latest news

24.5.2013 New short course

Doc. Lionel Morel will be visiting the Embedded Systems Lab in May, and in conjunction with this visit he will give a short course on Datalflow programming with applications to Software Defined Radio.

23.5.2013 Guest Lecture, 31.5.

Professor Shashi Kumar is giving a guest lecture on "Routing Algorithms for Partially Regular and Hierarchical Networks on Chip" in Lecture room B2033, ICT Building on Friday, May 31st at 13:00-14:00.

16.5.2013 4th Nordic EA Summer School

Welcome to the INFORTE.fi network event ”4th Nordic Enterprise Summer School - EASS2013” on Monday 12th – Friday 16th of August 2013!

13.5.2013 Guest Lecture

Professor John D. Nagy (Scottsdale Community College and Arizona State University, USA) will give a guest lecture on Tuesday, May 14th in the lecture room Publicum 4 beginning at 14.15. The title of the talk is: "Evolution of Proliferation and the Angiogenic Switch in Phenotypically Diverse Tumors"

26.4.2013 EIT ICT Labs Application Round

As a pre-information: next applications round for the EIT ICT Labs doctoral school in ICT Innovation is 1 June-15 August 2013.

18.4.2013 ELL-i – business case?

Interested in a business opportunity on novel Ideas about intelligent lighting and appliances? Ell-i, Electric Line Intelligence —Ideas about intelligent lighting and appliances, is looking for talented master and doctoral students to strengthen the team.

Please visit www.ell-i.org and contact Pekka Nikander (pekka.nikander@iki.fi)

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