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HIIT submitted three new project proposals to the NETS program of TEKES:

The project Personal Distributed Information Store studies a synchronization-based peer-to-peer infrastructure for storage of lightweight structured data.

The project Zenith: Horizontal Service Management aims to develop a service platform for next-generation heterogeneous, distributed, multi-channel digital services on the basis of semantic service models and directories.

The Academy of Finland awarded funding for three projects with HIIT research groups in the Proactive Computing program.

WWW pages for HIIT’s electronic publications were published. HIIT Publications is intended for longer research reports originating from HIIT authors; conference and workshop proceedings held in connection with HIIT activities; project documentation; and other material as may be deemed appropriate. It will also appear in printed form. The HIIT Technical Reports series is intended for rapid dissemination of articles and papers by HIIT authors submitted for publication elsewhere.

The Board of HIIT appointed Dr. Patrik Floréen as the Research Coordinator of HIIT for the 3-year period of August 1, 2002 through July 31, 2005. In addition to conducting independent research, his activities will mainly be targeted to coordinating international research, particularly EU-funded activities, covering both the Advanced Research and the Basic Research units of HIIT.

HIIT submitted five Expressions of Interest in response to the call of the European Commission on suggestions of topics to be included in its Sixth Framework Programme. In addition, HIIT joined several other EoI’s submitted by its European partners.