15.8.2003: Search-ina-box project funded by TEKES

TEKES awarded the first-year funding for the project Search-ina-Box (SIB). The project is intended to form a central part of the next-generation Internet search research area at HIIT, already commenced with the support of the Academy of Finland in the PROSE project. SIB will study especially topic-specific search engines for intranets. Besides researchers from the Complex System Computation group at HIIT, the research consortium also includes research groups from the University of Tampere, the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The project is directed by Professor Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki and HIIT.