Events 2003

23.10.2003: The SIMS-BCIS-HIIT Seminar on Information Society Research was held in Berkeley, California. The seminar was co-sponsored by the School of Information Management and Systems, the Berkeley Center for the Information Society, and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. Speakers included Prof. Hal Varian, Prof. Annalee Saxenian, and Prof. Marc Davis from UCB; Dr. Pekka Himanen from BCIS and HIIT; and Prof. Henry Tirri, Prof. Jukka Kemppinen and Dr. Marko Turpeinen from HIIT. [picture]

16.-17.10.2003: The first HIIT Scientific Advisory Board meeting was held in BRU premises at the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, and ARU premises in High Tech Center, Ruoholahti.

2.10.2003: ARU Research Portfolio 2004 seminar was held at High Tech Center. The seminar presented project ideas to be developed further for submission to various funding organisations during 2003.

27.-28.8.2003: The First International Mobile IPR Workshop: Rights Management of Information Products on the Mobile Internet was held in Helsinki on August 27-28, 2003. Keynote speakers of the event included Professor Hal Varian (UC Berkeley, USA) and Professor Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom). The workshop was organised by HIIT with support of TEKES through the Mobile IPR project. Proceedings of the event are available in the report series of HIIT. [pictures]

18.-20.8.2003: The 3rd Helsinki-Berkeley Summer School on Telecommunications Software Architectures organized by HIIT and the University of California at Berkeley was held in Berkeley, California on August 18-20. Main organisers of the Summer School were Professor Kimmo Raatikainen and Professor Randy Katz.

26.-28.5.2003: HIIT arranged the HIIT Retreat in the Sjökulla Education Centre. The objective of the meeting was to offer an opportunity for representatives from industry to interact with HIIT senior researchers and to get a comprehensive view of HIIT's research and its future plans.