International Evaluation of Finnish Computer Science

4.6. Describe the most important outcomes of the visits and collaboration contacts (max. 1 page)

Describe here e.g. key joint publications, researcher training, adoption and use of new technologies or new approaches.
At the scale of HIIT, a one-page summary can only mention the outcomes that have largest importance to the unit. Strategically, the most important link is the co-operation with University of California at Berkeley, launched in 2000. This work has focused on four thematic areas:

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   The work on Digital Economy was carried out in co-operation with prof. Hal Varian during 2000-2005. To date, this has contributed directly to three doctoral dissertations in HIIT and also one at LTKK.
   
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   The work on Social Media has been in collaboration with Profs. Annalee Saxenian, Nancy Van House, and Marc Davis since 2004. To date, one doctoral dissertation has resulted directly from this ongoing work. The work has also spilled over to Yahoo! Research Berkeley.
   
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   The line of work on Internet Architecture with prof. Scott Shenker et al. was launched in 2004. It has been carried out through researcher visits at ICSI, joint publications, and joint experimentations using the PlanetLab test infrastructure. At present, ICSI and HIIT have agreed to establish a joint Center for Novel Internet Architecture, expected to be launched in June, 2007. The center will carry out long-term research on the basis of a joint research agenda, and facilitate further research visits, joint research projects, and industry co-operation.
   
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   The line of work on Mobile Middleware with Professor Randy Katz was launched in 2001. In this line, joint doctoral student workshops (“Summer Schools”) were run in 2001-2004. The research visit of Professor Anthony Joseph in 2004 was thematically connected with this line. The doctoral student workshop on Spontaneous Networking carried out at Rutgers University in 2006 continues the tradition of the Mobile Middleware summer schools with a new partner, Prof. Liviu Iftode. The first workshop was run in May, 2006 and a second will take place on May 28 – June 1, 2007.
   

The international network on Internet Architecture covers also Prof. Klaus Wehrle from Universität Tübingen and lately RWTH Aachen, Dr. Bengt Ahlgren from SICS, Dr. Thomas Henderson from Boeing, Prof. Raman Bhaskaran from IIT Kanpur, and many others worldwide. The co-operation has been carried out by mutual research visits and joint workshops (e.g., joint Dagstuhl seminar in 2006). HIIT’s work also has a strong presence in the IETF/IRTF community resulting to c. 10 Internet drafts related to the HIP protocol and its infrastructure.

The on-going co-operation with Professor Manuel Castells (UC Berkeley, University of Southern California) has focused on Global Network Society research. The work has resulted in several monographs and has also contributed to the vision and goal-setting of HIIT’s Network Society research.

We have started a long-term collaboration and research visit programme, focusing on statistical inference methods, with Professor Tommi Jaakkola’s group at MIT, Laboratory of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

The co-operation with Tsinghua University (Professor Zhou Lizhu) has focused on Future Search research. The work has been carried out in connection with the ALVIS EU IST project. Research visits in both directions have been facilitated also by national funding in both sites. A main result of this research has been support for Chinese language preprocessing and indexing in the next-generation search engine created in the research. Other proposals with Tsinghua are being prepared.

The 4-month research visit of Professor Tatsuo Nakajima from Waseda University in 2005 resulted in a researcher exchange starting from 2006. The present joint line of research focuses on Ubiquitous Computing and Virtual Economy. A joint project is currently submitted.
Lately, HIIT has become well integrated in the European scene related to Multimodal Interfaces and Mixed Reality. This has resulted in several joint projects, demonstrations, and installations. We are also we are writing a monograph on design between digital and physical with Professors Pelle Ehn, Giorgio de Michelis, Ina Wagner and Thomas Binder.
In addition to the above-mentioned co-operations, in 2000-2006 we have published more than 30 archive-level articles with foreign collaborators. We have also participated in 13 EU projects and several Networks of Excellence. Most other projects, too, have included international co-operation, especially the 4 Eureka activities we have participated in.
Another dimension of the collaborations is HIIT’s significant impact on several other sciences. New computational methods designed in HIIT-BRU have produced new and important methods and results for the various applications (published, e.g., in Science (ISI impact factor 30.9), Cell (29.4), American journal of human genetics (12.6), Genetic epidemiology (5.1), Genomics (3.2), Nature protocols, Ecology (4.5), Ecological applications (3.8), Paleobiology (2.6), Vision research (2.0), Atmospheric chemistry and physics (3.5), Bioinformatics (6.0), BMC Bioinformatics (5.0)). Furthermore, the use of novel methods is changing the way many researchers in other sciences operate: study designs are changing when new possibilities for data analysis are opened. In such fields as gene regulation, gene mapping, paleontology, and linguistics our work is currently strongly influencing the future plans of the application sciences.

4.7. Non-academic collaboration

List here the Non-academic collaboration, e.g. industry contacts.

Name and Organisation	Type of collaboration	Country
Enterprises and standardisation organisations
Allied Telesyn Research	Guest lecture: Wireless Internet Research at the University of Helsinki, Kimmo Raatikainen	New Zealand
BayesIT	Spin-off company focusing on data visualization tools	Finland
Docomo, Julien Laganier	Standardization work	Germany
Ekahau Inc	Spin-off company focusing on real-time location systems in wireless networks	Finland
Ericsson, Petri Jokela	Standardization	Finland
Ericsson, Shinta Sugimoto	Standardization work	Japan
Helsingin Sanomat	Consultation on candidate selection assistant systems used in several national elections (Finnish parliament elections in 2003 and 2007, EU parliament election in 2004)	Finland
Jaiku Ltd.	Commercialization of the ContexContacts application on top of the ContextPhone platform at Jaiku Ltd, Finland.	Finland
Kibron Inc.	Consultation on Multivariate Biological Data Analysis	Finland
NEC, Martin Stiemerling	Standardization, research	Germany
Nokia (NRC, NET, Multimedia, NMP, TP, SIR)	Consultation on middleware research and standardization	Finland
Nokia Research Center (NRC)	Professor Kimmo Raatikainen, part-time Principal Scientist 2000-	Finland
Space Systems Finland	Joint project on fault diagnosis of space satellites	Finland
IETF	Active participation is the following working groups: dccp, mobots, nsis, pilc, seamoby, tcpimpl, tcpsat, tcpm, tsvwg	International
IETF	Editorship of the following RFCs: 2757, 3135, 3150, 3155, 3753, 4094, 4138	International
IETF	Contributions to the following RFCs: 3374, 3726, 4081, 4230	International
IRTF	Co-chairing HIP research group, many RFC’s	International
OMG	Leadership in Wireless Access and Terminal Mobility in CORBA standard	International
Telia-Sonera, Jouni Korhonen,	Standardization	Finland
W3C	Member of Binary XML Characterization WG, Efficient XML Interchange WG, Mobile Web Initiative	International
W3C	Active participation in Advisory Committee	International
Wireless World Research Forum	Contributions to Service Architectures for the Wireless Future	International
Other organisations
Deutsche Welle Germany, Wilfried Runde	Partners in demonstration and trials	Germany
European Space Agency (ESA)	Joint project on fault diagnosis of space satellites	Europe
Helsinki Information Technology Association (HITA)	Consultation on a IT-specific candidate selection assistant system used in the Finnish parliament election in 2007	Finland