August 2023

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Become a partner for the Sandbox digital design programme
 
 
 
 

Our digital design programme Sandbox is always looking for partners to supply real-world challenges to our bright young students. It is an excellent way to have an actual problem looked at by fresh, talented minds and to introduce your company to future digital design specialists!

 

The Sandbox partner alumni list is a rich catalogue of both big and small companies and organisations. Last semester, we finished various successful co-operations and you can read about two exciting ones here:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The third UniTartuCS Podcast with Toomas Römer of Bolt
 
 
 
 

In the third episode of our UniTartuCS podcast, we host our alumnus, co-founder of ZeroTurnaround and current Bolt VP of Engineering, Toomas Römer. Listen to his recollections of going from a two-man company to speaking in front of hundreds of Google employees in our August episode. The podcast is in Estonian.
 
 
 
 
 
 

The popular online course “Programming for beginners” will start on September 11th
 
 
 
 

Have you ever thought about trying out programming? On September 11th, an online course, „Programming for beginners“ (“Programmeerimisest maalähedaselt”) will start again. This course is suited for you, if you have no previous experience in programming, but you have a strong will to start a new exciting journey. The course is one month long and it takes about 5-6 hours a week for learning and solving the programming tasks. It will be held in Estonian only, and the participation fee is 100 euros.

 

„Programming for beginners“ is the most popular online course in the UT Institute of Computer Science and more than 12 000 people have already participated!


Registration deadline: 31. August
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Let's meet at the Digit Conference 2023
 
 
 
 

The University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science will take part in Digit 2023. You can meet us in our own conference box area as well as listen to our speaker on the main stage, Mark Fišel, Head of the Chair of Natural Language Processing.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Microdegrees offered by the Institute of Computer Science (registration closing soon!)
 
 
 
 

The Institute of Computer Science will offer the following microdegrees in the coming autumn of the 2023/24 academic year:

Registration for the microdegrees is open for a few more days and closes on August 21st (except for the microdegree "Cloud-native application design and DevOps"). Microdegrees are an excellent way to continue and reinforce your education in manageable chunks. Don't miss your chance to advance your education!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Watch the Delta Loeng and Cyber Innovation Conference recordings
 
 
 
 

This summer, we've had exciting lectures and presentations at the Institute of Computer Science. One of these presentations was by our Lecturer in Health Informatics Elena Sügis at the "Delta loeng #5" event. She spoke on the subject of using artificial intelligence in medicine. The presentation is in Estonian.

 

You can also rewatch the various presentations given at the Cyber Innovation Conference, ranging from topics such as ChatGPT to Hackerspace and beyond.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Join the AIRE club and training events in Narva on October 2nd-3rd
 
 
 
 

The consortium AI and Robotics Estonia is holding a AIRE club event and training seminar on the subject of technologies in the industrial sector of the future. If your company is in the production sector, this is a can't miss event! It features scientists and lecturers from the Institute of Computer Science as well as other industry people to network with. The events take place on separate days in Narva on the 2nd and 3rd of October. Read more (in Estonian):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Kristjan Karron

Marketing Specialist

cs.business(at)ut.ee
 

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