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Helsinki Institute for Information Technology: Advanced Research & Strategic Partnerships

HIIT is a leading research institute focusing on advanced research in information technology, strategic partnerships with industry leaders, and post-graduate education. Discover our research programs and collaborations with top Finnish ICT and media companies.

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Helsinki Institute for Information Technology: Advanced Research & Strategic Partnerships

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  1. Helsinki Institute for Information TechnologyHIIT Martti Mäntylä Research Director

  2. HIIT in a Nutshell • Established in March 1999 • Operational start August 1, 1999 • Research Director Martti Mäntylä • Director of Basic Research Unit Heikki Mannila • Alliances: the largest Finnish ICT and media companies, international partners • Operational model: strategic research programs, independently funded basic research unit, international projects, postgraduate education • First programs started early 2000; presently 8 projectsin progress with some 40 researchers • 6 new projects submitted for 2002

  3. Mission: to Focus on... • Performingtop-level advanced and basic research in such areas of information technology as deemed to be strategically important in the next 5-10 years • Maintaining a close alliance with the leading ICT companies and partner research institutions nationally and worldwide • Offering best possible infrastructure, tools, and facilities for the HIIT’s own and affiliated research groups • Building new competences by attracting best talents through post-graduate education and international recruiting

  4. Industrial Partners Manufacturers: Nokia, Ericsson Operators: Sonera, Elisa Content Providers: Alma Media, Sanoma-WSOY, Finnish Broadcasting Corp., Nordea Bank IT Companies: Tieto-Enator

  5. Organisation Board Industrial Advisory Board Scientific Advisory Board Director Director, Basic Research Advanced Research Unit Basic Research Unit Fuego Proactive Computing Media Convergence Data Analysis Digital Economy <Program 3>

  6. Research Groups From Data to Knowledge, UH Institute of Electronic Commerce, HSEBA Digital Economy Group Data Analysis Group Mobile Computing Group User Experience Group Complex System Computation Group Proactive Computing Group Smart Products, UIAH

  7. Advanved Research Unit • Led by Director of HIIT • Strategic planning assistance from Industrial Advisory Board • Advanced research programmes combining resources of several groups from universities and industry (20–40 researchers/program) consisting of • A core project with long-term vision (3–5 years) • Shorter term (2–3 years) adjunct projects focusing on new products, services, and technologies • Funding mainly from industry and TEKES • IPR provisions managed by standard project agreement developed jointly with the IAB

  8. Basic Research Unit • Led by Director of Basic Research in co-operation with the Scientific Advisory Board • Focused research programme; public research, open source policy • Senior researchers, post-docs, research groups • Core funding from universities • University of Helsinki: at least 4 MFIM per year for 5 years 1.1.2001-31.12.2005; continuation TBD after a public scientific review • Helsinki University of Technology: TBD • Additional funding sought from Academy, companies, ...

  9. Fuego: Future Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing • Focus: key applications and enabling technologies for future generation mobile and ubiquitous computing • Between (2000-2002, 24 person-years) • User-centered product concept development for new services based on ubiquitous computing • Sarcous (2000-2002, 14 py) • Terminal and access point software and service configuration, dynamic reconfiguration • 2002: Core project, 1-2 adjunct projects • Fuego Core: Ubicomp middleware • UbiCast: Context management and adaptation • PETS: Adaptive personal Web

  10. Nokia Sonera Elisa More Magic Raatikainen Fuego CORE Middleware for Mobile Wireless Internet Tirri Ubicast Predicting user activities Tirri PETS Adaptive Personal Web Nokia? UCB/EECS Randy Katz Nokia Sanoma-WSOY Sanoma-WSOY Sonera Fuego 2002 UIAH Ind. design Nokia Soininen Sarcous Mobile terminal s/w configuration UH/Cogn. science Sonera Mäntylä Between New ubicomp services Nokia Sonera Elisa Alma Media

  11. Media Convergence • Focus: end-to-end service provision architecture for next generation content services • MC Core (2000-2002, 12 py) • Content production and management • XML Devices (2001-2003, 18 py) • XML based multimedia terminal software • PAI (2000-2002, 13 py) • Personal adaptive interfaces • 2002: 1-2 adjunct projects • Semantic Web • Digital TV –based content broadcast infrastructure • Content delivery infrastructure, caching, proxies

  12. Vuorimaa & Södergård OtaDTV Digital TV content broadcast VTT Inf. Tech. Media Convergence 2002 ?? ICash Intelligent content caching Vuorimaa XML Devices Light XML browser development Vuorimaa, Ahonen-Myka, Puustjärvi Core Project Comet: Metadata & ontologies ACME: Automatic content management Hyvönen Semantic Web Service catalogues, topic maps Tirri PAI Adaptive user interfaces

  13. Digital Economy • Focus: theories, methods and tools for mobile electronic commerce and digital markets • DE Preparation project (2000-2001, 3 py) • Program preparation, adjunct project planning • Regulatory framework (2000-2002, 2 py) • User data rights management in location services • MobileIPR (2000-2002, 12 py) • IPR and user rights management in mobile services • STAMI (2001-2003, 14 py) • Content validity, personal privacy, attitudes • 2002: Core: business models and their supporting infrastructures; 1-2 adjunct projects (P2P?)

  14. UCB/SIMS UCB/ICSI Kemppinen MobileIPR DRM & business models Kemppinen & Himanen Welfare of Nations Network society study Digital Economy 2002 Kemppinen NAVI Regulation Regulation of location services Kemppinen & Mäntylä DE Core Structures of Digital Ecomomy Främling P-to-P Digital Economy Mäntylä STAMI Security technology, personal privacy

  15. Deep Computing • Focus: Grand challenge modelling and analysis problems in science and business • Data modelling and analysis, high-end computing, search and optimisation, high-dimensional visualisation • Deep modelling: predicting and data mining with very large (possibly on-line) data sets • Deep optimisation: Computationally efficient optimisation of complex multivariate cost functions • Deep view: Interfaces for understanding high-dimensional data • Deep applications: computational biology, ubicomp

  16. Milestones • Preparation of the first research programs, Sept. 1999 • Letter of Intent on offices at HTC Helsinki, Oct. 1999 • Submission of first draft proposals, end of Oct. 1999 • DE preparation project launch, January 2000 • MC core project launch, June 2000 • Fuego program launch, August 2000 • DE/MobileIPR project launch at UCB, August 2000 • HIIT-UCB Summer School on Future Telecomm Architectures, May-June 2001 • Move to HTC offices, Sept. 2001 • Basic Research Unit launch, Dec. 2001

  17. HIIT High Tech Center Helsinki

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