Previous ESSCaSS schools:
2019: 18th, Roosta Holiday Village (North-Western Estonia)
- Assoc. Prof. Antti Oulasvirta - Associate Professor, User interfaces, Aalto University
- Ms. Mariana Romanyshyn - Technical Lead, Computational Linguist at Grammarly, Inc.
- Prof. Adrian Kaehler - Giant.AI, Silicon Valley Deep Learning Group
Guest talks
- Adj. Prof. Stefania Tomasiello - Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor with DISA-MIS, University of Salerno; Lecturer, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu
- Session on Autonomous Driving Lab is held by Anne Jääger, Tambet Matiisen, Dmytro Fishman, Maksym Semikin, and Jan van Gent.
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2019/
2018: 17th, Roosta Holiday Village (North-Western Estonia)
- Pablo Duboue - Natural Language Generation: Traditional Approaches and Research Directions
- Gavin Brown - Ensemble methods in machine learning, feature selection in machine learning.
- Giuseppe De Giacomo - Reasoning About Actions: From Automata to LTLf/LDLf Synthesis and Planning
- Vahur Puik – Historic Estonia on a modern “Streetview” Ajapaik.ee
- Tõnu Esko - Genomics and Personalised Medicine
- Arnis Paršovs - Estonian ID Card and Recent Security Issues
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2018/
2017: 16th, Jäneda (Northern Estonia)
- Audris Mockus - From Software Engineering to Evidence Engineering
- Carl Henrik Ek - Machine Learning: beliefs, models and inference
- Kalle-Lyytinen - Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing Innovation Management Research in a Digital World; Metahuman systems- a new socio-technical challenge; “Computing” Requirements for Open Source Software: A Distributed Cognitive Approach
- Jaakko Hollmén - Machine learning: predictive analytics in health and environment
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2017/
2016: 15th, Nelijärve (Northern Estonia)
- Christian S. Jensen - Keyword-Based Querying of Geo-Textual Data; Data-Intensive Routing in Spatial Networks
- Gerogios Gousios - Quantitative methods in software engineering; Mining GitHub for fun and profit
- Eric Gaussier - Accessing textual information in large collections
- Aristides Gionis - Basic principles of algorithmic graph mining
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2016/
2015: 14th, Nelijärve (Northern Estonia)
- Fionn Murtagh - Towards the New Science of Big Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex, Hierarchic Systems
- Jilles Vreeken - Simply Exploring Data
- Sethu Vijayakumar - Robots that Learn: Harnessing Advances in Machine Learning for Smart Actuation
- Dekai Wu - AI=Learning to translate
- Hannu Toivonen - Computational Creativity
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2015/
2014: 13th, Roosta (North-Western Estonia)
- Thomas Ertl - Interactive Visual Analysis of Complex Data
- Peter A. Flach - Machine learning for interpretable knowledge and better decisions
- David Lo - Data Analytics for Automated Software Engineering
- Pavel Laskov - Reactive Cybersecurity: Attack, Detect, Evade
- Valtteri Niemi - Security of mobile communication systems
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2014/
2013: 12th, Voore (Central Estonia)
- Bing Liu - Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
- Fosca Giannotti - Mobility Data Analysis and Mining
- Frits Vaandrager - Inference of State Machines
- Vitaly Shmatikov - Privacy Technologies: What Works, What Doesn't, and What Is To Be Done
- Dino Pedreschi - Social network analysis: a crash mini-course
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2013/
2012: 11th, Jäneda (North Estonia)
- Torben Bach Pedersen - Managing Complex Multidimensional Data
- Andreas Zeller - Mining Programs and Processes
- Krishna P. Gummadi - Enabling the Social Web
- 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-East 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 (North Estonia)
- Wil van der Aalst - Process mining
- Stefan Edelkamp - Graph search engineering
- Charles Elkan - Machine learning & computational biology
- Kurt Jensen - Coloured Petri
http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2009/+]
2008: 7th, Otepää (Marguse, Otepää, South Estonia)
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates -- Web Mining or The Wisdom of the Crowds
- Filippo Menczer -- The Web as a Social Environment
- Arend Rensink -- Graph Transformation for Specification and Verification
- 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, South-West coast)
- Richard Dearden -- Automatic Planning and Decision-Making
- Anders Møller -- XML and Web Application Programming
- Peter Wegner -- Interactive Computation: A New Paradigm of Problem Solving
- Johannes Helander -- Service Oriented Embedded Computing
http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2007/
2006: 5th, Pedase (North-East coast)
- Bernd Fischer -- Logical foundations for automated code generation
- Thomas Gärtner -- Kernel methods in machine learning
- Juha Kärkkäinen -- Generic programming
- Doron Peled -- Formal methods: model checking and testing
http://cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/sum2006/
2005: 4th, Pedase (North-East coast)
- Dines Bjørner -- Toward a domain theory of transportation
- Jean-Marie Jacquet -- Coordination models and languages: from theory to practice
- Jakob Rehof -- ZING: systematic state space exploration of concurrent software
- Reino Kurki-Suonio -- Incremental and aspect-oriented development of operational specifications in terms of horizontal abstractions
- Ina Schieferdecker -- New approaches towards automated software testing: the testing and test control notation TTCN-3
http://cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/sum2005/
2004: 3rd, Pedase (North-East coast)
- Wilfried Brauer -- Lectures on multiagent systems
- John Hatcliff -- Software model checking using bogor -- a modular and extensible model checking framework
- Anders Ravn -- UML and formal development methods for embedded systems
- Margus Veanes -- Specification and black-box testing of software with SPEC#
http://cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/sum2004/
2003: 2nd, Taagepera castle, South Estonia
- Walter Dosch -- Stream based design of interactive systems
- Bran Selic -- Recent developments in model-driven development methods and the unfied modeling language
- Vladimir Vlassov -- Programming with processes (models, synchronization, interaction paradigms)
http://cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/sum2003/
2002: 1st, Kohala manor house, Central Estonia, 22.-25. of August.
Estonian speakers (below) and participants (overall some 35 people):
- Leo Mõtus
- Jaan Penjam
- Merik Meriste
- Jaak Vilo
- Maarja Kruusmaa
- Mart Tamre
- Aare Baumer
- Jaak Tepandi
- Jaan Kelder
- Jüri Helekivi
- Eero Vainikko
- Raul Savimaa
- Alexander Klyubin
- Meelis Kull
- Andri Riid
- Konstantin Skaburskas
- Taivo Kangilaski
- Silver Keskküla
- Jelena Sanko
Main topics:
- applicatiomns of computer science
- future of winter- and summerschools
- bio-inspired robots
- bioinformatics