WELCOME TO TUCS!

Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) is an internationally renowned vibrant and multidisciplinary research center. TUCS conducts basic and applied research in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, and information systems. The diversity and the excellence of the TUCS community is truly remarkable and it is a prime example of what across-the-borders collaboration between universities can be at its best, both in research and education.

The mission of TUCS is to be an internationally competitive multi-disciplinary research and education center, focusing both on academic excellence, and on industrially relevant research.
Our activities are organised on four research programmes:

BioHealth

From Computational Biology and Medical Informatics to Health and Wellbeing

Com³

Combinatorics, Complex Systems and Computability

RITES

Resilient IT Infrastructures

TISRA

Turku Information Systems Research Alliance

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.(TUCS)

Universities

University of Turku

The University of Turku is an active academic community of 25 000 students and staff members, a provider and developer of Finnish high-quality education and a strong bellwether of its area.

Åbo Akademi University

Established 100 years ago, Åbo Akademi University operates currently in Turku and Vaasa. It is the only Swedish-speaking university in Finland, offering a wide range of educational options.

TUCS Distinguished Lecture

Learning to Pivot: Developing the Unique Skill Set of Digital Entrepreneurs

Jonathan P. Allen, San Francisco University, School of Management

Date: Monday 20.5.2019, 14-16
Venue: Lecture Hall LS01, Turku School of Economics

Abstract: The fields of entrepreneurship and information systems are both developing understandings of how digital entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurs, and ‘born digital’ companies might be new and distinctive. This talk will explore connections between the digital and entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on effectuation, experimentation, and the search for viable business models known to practitioners as ‘pivoting’. The ultimate goal of the work is to help reverse digitally-driven inequalities through empowerment, and better sharing of the substantial wealth being created by digitization.

“One of our big emphases here at USF is to try and make sure that businesspeople can actually get in there and do something real with
technology.” – J.P. Allen

Latest News

Book Launch: Jukka Paakki – “Arto Salomaa: Äijän näköinen matemaatikko”

Arto Salomaa is a pioneer of research in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. Salomaa is widely known for his work on automata and formal languages starting already in the 1960s. Other research lines where he made important contributions are multi-valued logics, biocomputing, and cryptography and information security. Salomaa was...

28 Aug 2018

TUCS Blockchain seminar series

TUCS is organising a new seminar series on the novel rapidly emerging field called Blockchain, and on its applications. Researchers and technologists alike are talking about how blockchain technology is "the next big thing" across industries from finance to retail to even healthcare. No doubt, with such big businesses around...

20 Aug 2017