past events
16.12.2005: Representatives of
the Peer to Peer Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC) from Japan
visited HIIT on 16.12.2005 at 9.30-15.30. A seminar highlighing
relevant ongoing work was held in HIIT premises at the High Tech
Center Helsinki, 6th floor.
19.10.2005: HIIT Industrial Advisory
Board meeting 2/2005 was held in HTC at 14:00-17:00.
12.10.2005: Three leading reseachers, Nelson
Morgan, Eran Halperin and Vern Paxson, from the International
Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at UC Berkeley visited HIIT
by invitation of TEKES and HIIT. The visitors gave talks about
some of the great things going on at ICSI in order to encourage
further co-operation between ICSI and HIIT.
11.10.2005: HIIT
ARU 2006 Portfolio Seminar was held in HTC (6th floor),
Ruoholahti at 13:00-17:00. The objective of the seminar was
to communicate to companies and research partners the range
of new research initiatives under development at HIIT. |
7.9.2005: HIIT's Mobile Content Communities project (MC2)
organised a workshop on Social Networks and Mobile Applications
at HTC. The keynote presentation was given by Dr. Nathan Eagle from the MIT Media Lab.
17.8.2005: HIIT's Digital Content Communities research group
organised a workshop on Transparent technologies for spatial and social presence
at HTC. The keynote presentation was given by Prof. Frank Biocca from Michigan State University.
3.8.2005: HIIT's Digital Content Communities research group
organised a workshop on Future Mobile Photography.
at HTC. The keynote presentation was given by Prof. Nancy Van House, SIMS, UC Berkeley, USA.
The speaker slides and the group discussions can be found at
http://pong.hiit.fi/dcc/futureMobile/.
16.-17.6.2005: HIIT organised the Workshop on Context
Awareness for Proactive Systems (CAPS 2005), at the Department of Computer Science,
University Helsinki. The
proceedings
are available. Inquiries: Greger Linden, HIIT BRU.
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1.6.2005: The Committee for the Future
of the Finnish Parliamant and HIIT co-organised a seminar on Challenge
of Creative Economy at the University of Helsinki. Speakers
of the event included the Minister of Treasury Antti Kalliomäki,
Professor Manuel Castells, Dr. Pekka Himanen and CEO Matti Alahuhta.
The seminar was chaired by the chairman of the Committee for the
Future, member of parliament Jyrki Katainen.
18.-20.5.2005: The annual HIIT
Retreat event was held in Haukilammen
toimintakeskus. The prime objective of the event was to discuss and plan the overall
HIIT Roadmap 2009, in light of the recent decisions on HIIT's research strategy. The
discussion focused especially on the research themes to be addressed in 2006-2008 and
how the objectives of the strategy can be reached by 2009. The desired outcome was a
shared understanding of the roadmap and the next steps of its implementation. The full
event was spread across three days. The first (18.5.) and last (20.5.) day were primarily
targeted to HIIT personnel. 19.5. was targeted towards invited representatives from
industry and the universities; however, they are welcome to attend the whole event.
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