News

28 Feb 2007 - HIIT researchers submitted a total of seven new proposals to TEKES in response to its Open Call for new projects. If funded, the projects will launch during the first half of 2007.

21 Feb 2007 - Dr. Jukka Kemppinen has been nominated as Professor in Law, especially information and technology law, from 1.3.2007 in the School of Business at Lappeenranta University of Technology. He has been professor pro tem in Lappeenranta since 2003. Dr. Kemppinen is also an adjunct professor (docent) in University of Helsinki (legal science) since 1994 and University of Turku (cultural history) since 2005. Dr. Kemppinen plans to share his time with HIIT, where he is an Affiliate Principal Scientist and co-leads the Digital Economy research group.

20 Feb 2007 - HIIT Basic Research Unit and the From Data to Knowledge research unit have opened the call for applications to summer internship positions for talented students whose competence matches HIIT's research themes. The DL is 1.3.2007.

31 Jan 2007 - HIIT researchers submitted three project proposals in response to the open call of Academy of Finland. If accepted in a very competitive evaluation, the projects will launch in 2008.

15 Jan 2007 - HIIT has opened the call for applications to summer internship positions for talented bachelor-level students of Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki whose competence matches HIIT's research themes. The DL is 31.1.2007.

8 Jan 2007 - TKK has signed a contract for renting 1520 m2 space in Pilotti building in the Spektri business park next to Otaniemi. At the same time, TKK also signed a contract for transfering the rental agreement of the High Tech Center space in Ruoholahti. Thus the Ruoholahti unit will move to Otaniemi by April 15, 2007.

1 Jan 2007 - Professor, Dr.Sc. Marko Turpeinen (b. 1968) has been nominated as a Principal Scientist at HIIT for 1.1.2007-31.12.2011. He will work as the Programme Director of the Network Society research programme, sharing his time between HIIT and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is a Professor of Media Technology.

18 Dec 2006 - HIIT researcher Evimaria Terzi defended her doctoral thesis Problems and Algorithms for Sequence Segmentations on 18 December 2006 at the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. The opponent was Professor Dimitris Achlioptas, UC Santa Cruz, and custos was Professor Esko Ukkonen.

15 Dec 2006 - HIIT researcher Risto Sarvas defended his doctoral thesis Designing User-Centric Metadata for Digital Snapshot Photography at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology. His opponent was professor Walter Bender from MIT Media Lab, USA. The supervisor of the thesis was Professor Reijo Sulonen.

14 Dec 2006 - HIIT researcher Tommi Ilmonen defended his doctoral thesis Tools and Experiments in Multimodal Interaction on 14 December 2006 at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology. His opponent was professor Michael Cohen, Computer Arts Lab, University of Aizu, Japan and the supervisor was Professor Tapio Takala.