News

1 Feb 2009 - Professor Jukka Kemppinen says the proposed "Lex Nokia" violates the fundamental rights as they are defined in the Finnish constitution.

Jukka Kemppinen is a professor of Lappeenranta University of Technology and a principal scientist of HIIT.

31 Jan 2009 - A paper from a team of HIIT researchers on mobile augmented mobile maps has received a nomination for the Best Paper Award in CHI 2009. CHI is the most highly ranked scientific conference on Computer-Human Interaction in the world. 3% of all submissions to the conference were considered Award Nominees by the SIGCHI "Best of CHI" program.

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28 Jan 2009 - New technology has made music ubiquitous. It is everywhere. Ubiquitous music is researched in a new research project Musiquitous.

Read more at www.tietysti.fi (in Finnish) »

28 Jan 2009 - Children can tell more about their day in kindergarten with camera phones. In a study made in HIIT 3- to 6-year-old nursery school children were given mobile phones with cameras. The pictures were automatically transferred to a web service for the parents and teachers to see. In the evenings the parents looked at shots with their children. When viewing the images together, the children were able to tell better about the events of the day. Viewing the images did not decrease the time the parents spent with their children.

26 Jan 2009 - New social media are emerging. For instance many people have found microblogs useful at work.

Watch an interview of Professor Marko Turpeinen by YLE Morning TV »

26 Jan - You can store your publication records directly in the TKK database using the
WWW interface available at
http://webtrip.win.hut.fi/rekisterit/default.asp

HIIT unit code is T6300.

For more information, peek into
http://lib.tkk.fi/Ohje/Rekisterit/yhteistunnus.html

23 Jan 2009 - Creativity requires that a person can pass his own fears, said Professor Pekka Himanen at Creative Life Event.

Read more in Ylioppilaslehti »

19 Jan 2009 - TV companies are finding new business models that work in P2P environment. Several major TV companies have released a range of hit TV series for freee at Hulu.com where a viewer sees ads with the series. In two years the business model has proved to be successful.

Listen to an interview of HIIT Researcher Herkko Hietanen by YLEX Poptehdas »

14 Jan 2009 - Google will release the Jaiku code under the open source Apache license. Google is closing its own Jaiku development and allowing other organizations to pick up where the Google team left off. It is not clear if current users will be able to transfer their accounts.

The basic technology of Jaiku, an activity stream and presence sharing service, was developed in HIIT and the University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science in 2002-05. It was sold to Google in 2007.

Please report all your working hours in Halli (TKK) no later than 2 January. Due to the start of a new year, the hours of 2008 cannot be approved later than 2 January.

Please send also all the bills to the administration before 2 January 2009.