International Evaluation of Finnish Computer Science

4.4. Short but particularly important visits

List the visits per year. List the visits of each year by country in the alphabetical order. In item "Purpose of the visit" indicate clearly the objective of the visit.

Name of visitor	Home organisation	Country	Year	Purpose of the visit
Cochrane, Tom	Queensland University of Technology	Australia		Research co-operation
Eggert, Lars	NEC	Germany		Standardization
Götz, Stefan	RWTH Aachen	Germany		Standardization and research
Landsiedel, Olaf	RWTH Aachen	Germany		Standardization and research
Stiemerling, Martin	NEC	Germany		Standardization
Wehrle, Klaus	RWTH Aachen	Germany		Standardization and research
Harison, Elad	University of Groeningen	Netherlands		Research co-operation
Ahlgren, Bength	SICS	Sweden		NordicHIP research
Paxson, Vern	ICSI	USA		Research collaboration
Anderson, Ross	Cambridge University	UK	2003	Keynote speech at MobileIPR workshop on August 27
Varian, Hal	UC Berkeley	USA	2003	Keynote speech at MobileIPR workshop on August 27,
Halonen, Tarja, President	Republic of Finland	Finland	2004	Presentation of HIIT research
Ojanperä, Tero	Nokia Research Center	Finland	2004	Presentation of HIIT research
Faloutsos, Christos	Carnegie Mellon University	USA	2004	Member of HIIT scientific advisory board; Lecture course on discovering patterns in streams and graphs
Karp, Richard, M.	University of California	USA	2004	Representative of ICSI, setting up post doc visit for Dr. Kääriäinen
Iannucci, Bob	Nokia Research Center	Finland	2005	Presentation of HIIT research
Barron, Andrew	Yale	USA	2005	Exploring possibilities for joint work in minimum description length research
Davis, Marc	University of Berkeley	USA	2005	Research collaboration (5 days, 2005)
Douglas, Scott, C.	Southern Methodist University	USA	2005	Guest lecture on Convolutive Blind Source Separation for Speech Enhancement
Halperin, Eran	University of California	USA	2005	HIIT/ICS collaboration
Iftodé, Liviu	Rutgers University	USA	2005	Establishment of co-operation
Van House, Nancy	University of Berkeley	USA	2005	Research collaboration (10 days)
Wagner, Ina	Vienna University of Technology	Austria	2006	Seminar and research on interaction design, mixed reality and urban environments
Kangasharju, Jussi	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Germany	2006	Research collaboration between FI and his group at TU Darmstadt
Whang, Leo Sang-Min	Yonsei University	South Korea	2006	Invited presentation, research collaboration (3 days)
Bender, Walter	MIT & One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)	USA	2006	Thesis defence and research collaboration (3 days)
Bertsekas, Dimitri	MIT	USA	2006	Exploring possible future collaborative research projects between MIT and Helsinki
Jaakkola, Tommi	MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	USA	2006	Exploring possible future collaborative research projects between MIT and Helsinki
de Raedt, Luc	University of Freiburg	Germany	2002, 2003	Research collaboration, among others in EU projects
Apostpolico, Alberto	Universities of Padova and Purdue	USA, Italy	2002, 2004	Member of HIIT scientific advisory board; lectures on combinatorial pattern matching
Shawe-Taylor, John	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	2004, 2006	Research collaboration; lecture course on Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis, Member of HIIT Scientific Advisory Board
Katz, Randy	University of California at Berkeley	USA	2001, 2002, 2004	Long-term research collaboration, Member of HIIT scientific advisory board