16th Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science

Previous ESSCaSS schools:

2016: 15th, Nelijärve (Nelijärve, Estonia, Northern Estonia)

1. Christian S. Jensen - Keyword-Based Querying of Geo-Textual Data; Data-Intensive Routing in Spatial Networks
2. Gerogios Gousios - Quantitative methods in software engineering; Mining GitHub for fun and profit
3. Eric Gaussier - Accessing textual information in large collections
4. Aristides Gionis - Basic principles of algorithmic graph mining

      https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2016/

2015: 14th, Nelijärve (Nelijärve, Estonia, Northern Estonia)

1. Fionn Murtagh - Towards the New Science of Big Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex, Hierarchic Systems
2. Jilles Vreeken - Simply Exploring Data
3. Sethu Vijayakumar - Robots that Learn: Harnessing Advances in Machine Learning for Smart Actuation
4. Dekai Wu - AI=Learning to translate
5. Hannu Toivonen - Computational Creativity

      https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2015/

2014: 13th, Roosta (Roosta, Estonia, Western Estonia)

1. Thomas Ertl - Interactive Visual Analysis of Complex Data
2. Peter A. Flach - Machine learning for interpretable knowledge and better decisions
3. David Lo - Data Analytics for Automated Software Engineering
4. Pavel Laskov - Reactive Cybersecurity: Attack, Detect, Evade
5. Valtteri Niemi - Security of mobile communication systems

      https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2014/

2013: 12th, Voore (Voore, Estonia, Central Estonia)

1. Bing Liu - Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
2. Fosca Giannotti - Mobility Data Analysis and Mining
3. Frits Vaandrager - Inference of State Machines
4. Vitaly Shmatikov - Privacy Technologies: What Works, What Doesn't, and What Is To Be Done
5. Dino Pedreschi - Social network analysis: a crash mini-course

      https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2013/

2012: 11th, Jäneda (Jäneda, Estonia, Central Estonia)

1. Torben Bach Pedersen - Managing Complex Multidimensional Data
2. Andreas Zeller - Mining Programs and Processes
3. Krishna P. Gummadi - Enabling the Social Web
4. Robin Burke - Hybrid Recommender Systems

      http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2012/

2011: 10th, Otepää (South Estonia)

• Eric Ruppert - Lock-Free Shared Data Structures
• Dietmar Maringer - Heuristical approximation of functions
• Peter Ryan - e-Voting and security
• Farhad Arbab - Coordination, Reo, and software composition

      http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2011

2010: 9th, Pedase (Harju, North coast)

• Yury Lifshits - Community Management / Similarity Search
• Nello Cristianini - Computational pattern analysis
• Per Kristian Lehre - Evolutionary computing
• Kobbi Nissim - Private data analysis

      http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2010/

2009: 8th, Jäneda (Jäneda, Estonia, Central Estonia)

1. Wil van der Aalst - Process mining
2. Stefan Edelkamp - Graph search engineering
3. Charles Elkan - Machine learning & computational biology
4. Kurt Jensen - Coloured Petri

      http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2009/

2008: 7th, Otepää (Marguse, Otepää, South Estonia)

1. Ricardo Baeza-Yates -- Web Mining or The Wisdom of the Crowds
2. Filippo Menczer -- The Web as a Social Environment
3. Arend Rensink -- Graph Transformation for Specification and Verification
4. Algirdas Avižienis -- Fundamental Concepts of Dependable and Secure Computing and Architectures of Fault-Tolerant Systems

      http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2008/

2007: 6th, Lepanina (Pärnu, West coast)

1. Richard Dearden
2. Anders Møller
3. Peter Wegner
4. Johannes Helander

      http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2007/

2006: 5th, Pedase (Harju, North coast)

1. Bernd Fischer
2. Thomas Gärtner
3. Juha Kärkkäinen
4. Doron Peled

      http://cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/sum2006/

2005: 4th, Pedase (Harju, North coast)

1. Dines Bjørner
2. Jean-Marie Jacquet
3. Jakob Rehof
4. Reino Kurki-Suonio
5. Ina Schieferdecker

      http://cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/sum2005/

2004: 3rd, Pedase (Harju, North coast)

1. Wilfried Brauer
2. John Hatcliff
3. Anders Ravn
4. Margus Veanes

      http://cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/sum2004/

2003: 2nd, Taagepera castle, South Estonia

1. Walter Dosch
2. Bran Selic
3. Vladimir Vlassov

      http://cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/sum2003/

2002: 1st,