Monthly Archives: February 2011

European Football in The Iron Grip of Elite Clubs

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Katarina Pijetlovic

The real game of football is being played between UEFA and the rich clubs in the dark corners of the offices of managers and directors, and out of the reach of the stadium lights. For clubs, players are not much more than a raw material in the final product: the game. And the product is there to be sold to the highest-bidding broadcasting company. Fans are there to buy their tickets and merchandise and clubs do not have warm feelings towards their fans, in fact it is often a case of unrequited love. Continue reading →

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“Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Gemma Atkinson

I’m a Mobilitas-funded post-doc in Tartu University, working in the lab of Tanel Tenson in the Institute of Technology. I write a blog about my research, and I’ve been kindly invited to write a guest post for the UT blog. … Continue reading →

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The Lost Switch (1/3)

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Edvin Aedma

This is the first part in the series presenting a selection of Edvin Aedma’s short stories and art from his recent book “The Lost Switch” (2010). Continue reading →

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How to Make Computations Whilst Preserving Privacy?

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Villu Päärt

If a country’s supermarket chains would like to know who sells more milk or cheese, it would be virtually impossible without spying on competitors’ accounting data. This problem has a solution: Sharemind allows computations on input data to be made without compromising privacy. Continue reading →

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To Our Newsletter Subscribers – With Compliments

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Inga Külmoja

This is a summary of the University of Tartu’s newsletter (htttp://ut.ee/en/newsletter) survey results for 2009. Continue reading →

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