TEKES awards funding for PUPS project
Thu, 14.06.2007
14 June 2007 - TEKES has awarded two-year funding for the project Personalized Ubiservices in Public Spaces (PUPS) from its Ubicom programme. The project will focus on studying proactive behaviours (related to content or its representation) informed by context-awareness and user modelling. The research consortium combines groups from three of HIIT's research programmes (FI, NS, and PAS) with VTT Oulu. For more information, please contact Dr. Patrik Floréen, Dr.
TEKES awards funding for Finland-ICSI Center for Novel Internet Architecture
Mon, 04.06.2007
4 June 2007 - As the demands on the Internet continue to grow, researchers are seeking to make the Internet more secure, reliable and flexible. Making substantial and qualitative changes in these properties may require radical, as opposed to incremental, change.
Dr. Risto Sarvas receives the best computer science doctoral thesis award
Fri, 01.06.2007
1 June 2007 - The Finnish Information Processing Association has given its award for the best doctoral thesis in computer science for 2006 to Dr. Risto Sarvas from HIIT for his dissertation Designing User-Centric Metadata for Digital Snapshot Photography. The work was done in the DCC research group. See http://www.ttlry.fi/?x23586=7049531 for more information in Finnish.
TEKES funds InfraHIP II project
Tue, 22.05.2007
21 May 2007 - TEKES has awarded 2,5 year funding for the Infrastructure for HIP II (InfraHIP II) project that continues HIIT's work on Host Identity Protocol focusing especially on engineering and deployment issues. The industrial partners of the project include Ericsson, Nokia, Elisa, TeliaSonera and Secgo. Adj. prof. Andrei Gurtov is the leader of the project.