Heikki Mannila appointed new HIIT director
Wed, 17.12.2008
17 Dec 2008 - TKK and the University of Helsinki have appointed Academy professor Heikki Mannila as the new director of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT.
Professor Mannila is a pioneer in data mining research and one of the world's leading developers of data mining methods. In addition to working with basic computer science research, he is active in several application areas, including bioinformatics, genetics, telecommunications, palaeontology and linguistics. He is currently serving as Academy Professor at HIIT.
Jussi Kangasharju appointed new director of Future Internet research programme
Tue, 16.12.2008
17 Dec 2008 - The board of HIIT has nominated Professor Jussi Kangasharju as the new director of HIIT's Future Internet reserach programme. Professor Kangasharju has already worked as the programme's pro tem director this autumn.
Since June 2007 Kangasharju has been a professor at the department of computer science at University of Helsinki. His research interests are peer-to-peer technologies, content distribution, pervasive computing, and future Internet development. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.