Marko Turpeinen becomes Professor of Media Technology at KTH
Wed, 01.11.2006
1 Nov 2006 - Dr. Marko Turpeinen, the Programme Director of the Network Society research programme at HIIT, has been nominated as the Professor of Media Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, from 1.11.2006 onwards. Prof. Turpeinen will continue his work at HIIT, and plans to divide his time between KTH and HIIT.
Prof. Ylä-Jääski's group joins HIIT
Fri, 13.10.2006
13 Oct 2006 - HIIT Steering Board decided to accept the Distributed Networking and Security research group led by prof. Antti Ylä-Jääski from Helsinki University of Technology to HIIT. The work of of the group will focus on the Future Internet programme of HIIT.
CALLAS EU project clears negotiations, will launch on 1.11.2006
Fri, 08.09.2006
8 Sep 2006 - The negotiations with the European Commission on the project Conveying Affectiveness in Leading-edge Living Adaptive Systems (CALLAS) were concluded succesfully, and the project will launch on 1.11.2006. The chief aim of the project is to advance the state-of-the-art in Multimodal Affective Interfaces by developing i) new emotional models that will be able to take into account a comprehensive user experience in digital arts and entertainment applications and ii) new modality-processing techniques to capture (and elicit) these new emotional categories.
Prof. Esko Ukkonen's and Prof. Samuel Kaski's groups join HIIT
Mon, 28.08.2006
28 Aug 2006 - In its inaugural meeting, the newly established HIIT Steering Group decided to accept two new research groups into HIIT: the Computational Biology group led by prof. Esko Ukkonen from University of Helsinki and the Statistical Machine Learning and Bioinformatics group led by prof. Samuel Kaski from the Helsinki University of Technology. The work of Prof. Ukkonen's group will mainly be focused on HIIT's Algorithmic Data Analysis (ADA) programme, while prof.