• Emeritus- ja julkistustilaisuus: SampoSampo – Kaikki kaikkeen kietoutuvi – Connecting Everything to Everything Else (in Finnish)

    Aalto University (Computer Science building) Konemiehentie 2, Espoo, Finland

    This event will be held in Finnish. Sampojen ylinen sampo datan rikastamiseen, hakuun, data-analyysiin ja yhteyksen etsimiseen viisauden verkossa Perjantaina, 9.1.2026, klo 13:00–16:00 (päätilaisuus) ja 16:00- (jatkotilaisuus) Aalto-yliopisto, Tietotekniikkatalo, T1, Konemiehentie 2, 2. kerros, Otaniemi, Espoo Tilaisuudessa esitellään uusi SampoSampo-järjestelmä, eräänlainen sampojen sampo ja sampojen "äiti". Julkistustilaisuus on samalla Sampo-järjestelmien "isän" professori Eero Hyvösen emeritus-juhla […]

  • DARIAH-FI Workshop: New tools and data services for cultural heritage research

    Online

    Organisers: Inés Matres (University of Helsinki), Ida Toivanen (University of Jyväskylä), and Ilkka Lähteenmäki (University of Oulu) Date: 22 January 2026, Online, Full-day with breaks (if your registration credentials do not work for some reason, please contact ines.matres@helsinki.fi) This workshop unveils new infrastructure developed in the last two years making use of LLMs, computer vision […]

  • Brown Bag Seminar: AI and Religious Mediation

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    This presentation by Feeza Vasudeva (Academy Research Fellow at the Study of Religions, University of Helsinki) introduces a concept of synthetic sacred – a configuration in which generative systems co-produce devotional, mythological, and heritage content that circulates as religiously effective media. The talk uses two empirical sites – conversational 'Godbots' and AI-generated religious imagery – […]

  • Brown Bag Seminar: “Untrustworthy” workers and “ground truth”

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    Ground-truth datasets are supposed to nail down facts about the “world”, so that machine-learning models trained on them will behave reliably in that same world. Yet when annotation is outsourced to crowdworkers whom engineers do not know, and often distrust, how is such reliability achieved or even imagined? Based on 27 interviews with machine learning […]

  • Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala. Spring 2026

    University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland

    Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala is a regular event for early career humanities and social sciences researchers. It offers a free form opportunity to discuss and share experiences of digital methods in research. The focus is on digital good practices, stumbling blocks and tricks regarding use of data, tools and analysis methods. Snacks will be provided […]