International Evaluation of Finnish Computer Science

5.3. Prizes awarded to researchers, honours and scientific positions of trust

Give only the most important memberships and prizes.

Name	Prize, position etc.
Alanko, Timo	Honorary Doctor of Petrozavodsk State University 2002
Gurtov, Andrei	Co-chair of HIP Research group in Internet Research Task Force
Himanen, Pekka	Global Leader for Tomorrow, World Economic Forum 2003
Himanen, Pekka	Expert to the Finnish Parliament, The Committee for the Future, 2003-2004
Himanen, Pekka	Expert to the International Labor Organization High-Level Commission on Globalization
Hyvönen, Eero	Finnish Prime minister’s honourable mention for most innovative web application (MuseoSuomi), in the Laatua verkkoon competition (Quality on the web), 2004.
Hyvönen, Eero	Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums (Nodem 2004), nominee for the prize, 2004.
Hyvönen, Eero and the Seco research group	Semantic Web Challenge Award 2004 to MuseoSuomi, 11 November 2004
Kemppinen Jukka	TeliaSonera prize of Information Technology, especially education -10 000 eur 2006
Kontkanen, Petri	CoIL Challenge 2000, 2nd prize
Lepola, Tuomas	Pascal Challenge on Inferring Relevance From Eye Movements, 1st prize, 2005
Mannila, Heikki	ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) Innovations Award 2003
Mannila, Heikki	Steering Committee Member, European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2001-2005
Mannila, Heikki	Steering Committee Member, European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) 2003-2005
Mannila, Heikki	Member of ACM SIGKDD Curriculum Committee, 2003-2005
Mannila, Heikki	Chairman of the ESFRI Expert Group on Computing and Data Treatment, 2005-2006
Mannila, Heikki	Member of ESFRI Steering group for Physical Sciences and Engineering, 2005-2006
Mannila, Heikki	Senior Scientific Advisor of the Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC), 2006-2007
Mannila, Heikki	Vice Chair of the Finnish Genome Center, 2006-, Board Member of the Finnish Genome Center, 1998-
Mannila, Heikki	Vice member of the board of the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, 2007-
Mäntylä, Martti	Information Technology Distinction Award 2005, The Finnish Information Processing Association (FIPA)
Mielikäinen, Taneli	The doctoral dissertation award of the Finnish Society for Computer Science, 2006
Miettinen, Miikka, Nokelainen, Pekka, Kurhila, Jaakko Silander, Tomi Tirri, Henry	Outstanding Paper Award: Adaptive Profiling Tool for Teacher Education. Pp. 1153-1157 in Proceedings of the SITE 2002 Conference (Nashville, USA, March 2002).
Miettinen, Pauli, Mielikäinen, Taneli, Gionis, Aristides, Das, Gautam, Mannila, Heikki	Best paper, The Discrete Basis Problem, 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2006)
Myllymäki, Petri	Pascal EU Network of Excellence, member of the Pascal steering committee, 2003-2007, and manager of the special interest group on Information-Theoretic Modelling, 2005-2007
Myllymäki, Petri	The 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2008), programme chair
Raento, Mika	Forum Nokia Champion 2005 (www.forum.nokia.com)
Raatikainen, Kimmo	Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2002
Rissanen, Jorma	Kolmogorov medal 2004 (Royal Holloway, University of London.)
Reti, Tommo, Sarvas, Risto	The DiMaS system won the title "The Best e-Business Application in Finland" and the nomination to represent Finland in World Summit Award 2005.
Rissanen, Jorma	Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2002-
Riva, Oriana	Nokia scholarship (November 2005)
Roos, Teemu, Grünwald, Peter, Myllymäki, Petri, and Tirri, Henry	Best paper award: Generalization to Unseen Cases, The 17th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2005).
Sarvas, Risto	Nominated for best doctoral dissertation of year 2006 (The Finnish Society for Computer Science)
Silander, Tomi	KDD Cup 2001, 2nd prize
Toivonen, Hannu	Steering Committee Member, European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2003-2005
Toivonen, Hannu	Steering Committee Member, European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) 2003-2005
Toivonen, Hannu	International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 08), July 2008, Helsinki, local chair
Ukkonen, Esko	Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2000-
Ukkonen, Esko	Board member of the Institute of Biotechnology 2002-
Ukkonen, Esko	Board member of the Helsinki Area Master's Programme in Biotechnology 2003-
Ukkonen, Esko	Steering Committee Member of the Scandinavian Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), 1991-
Name	Scientific program committee membership
Bingham, Ella	Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), 2005
Bingham, Ella	ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2006
Buntine, Wray	ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2003-2005
Buntine, Wray	Conference on AI and Statistics (AISTATS), 2003, 2005
Buntine, Wray	Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2002-2005
Buntine, Wray	European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2007
Buntine, Wray	European Conference on Machine Learning & European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), 2003-2006
Buntine, Wray	International Conference on Discovery Science (DS), 2004-2005
Buntine, Wray	International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2004-2006
Buntine, Wray	International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2007
Buntine, Wray	National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2005
Buntine, Wray	Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2003, 2005
Floréen, Patrik	European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC), 2007
Floréen, Patrik	International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computers Science (SOFSEM), 2006
Gurtov, Andrei	7^th International Conference on Next generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Netowrking (NEW2AN), 2006
Gurtov, Andrei	ACM SIGCOMM shadow 2005
Gurtov, Andrei	Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC), 2005
Hollmén, Jaakko	European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2004
Hollmén, Jaakko	International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), 2005
Hollmén, Jaakko	Symposium on Knowledge Representation in Bioinformatics (KRBIO), 2005
Hollmén, Jaakko	Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM), 2003
Hyvärinen, Aapo	International Workshop on Generative-Model-Based Vision (GMBV), 2002, 2004
Hyvärinen, Aapo	International Workshop on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA), 2001, 2003-2004, 2006
Mannila, Heikki	ACM SIGACT-SIGART-SIGMOD Symposium on Principles of Database and Knowledgebase Systems (PODS), 2001
Mannila, Heikki	ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), 2005
Mannila, Heikki	ACM Symposium on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2003, 2006
Mannila, Heikki	Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM), 2007
Mannila, Heikki	Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2005
Mannila, Heikki	European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), 2002, co-chair
Mannila, Heikki	European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD), 2001-2002; co-chair 2002
Mannila, Heikki	IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2002-2003, 2005
Mannila, Heikki	International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming – (ICALP), 2002
Mannila, Heikki	International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), 2003
Mannila, Heikki	International Conference on Discovery Science (DS), 2002
Mannila, Heikki	International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2001, 2003; Area Chair 2001
Mannila, Heikki	International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2003
Mannila, Heikki	International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2001
Mannila, Heikki	SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2002, program co-chair
Mannila, Heikki	SIGKDD Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (KDD), 2001-2002, 2004-2007; best paper chair 2005
Mielikäinen, Taneli	Fifth International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2005), Atlanta, USA, May 22–25, 2005
Mielikäinen, Taneli	The 17th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2006), Berlin, Germany, September 18–22, 2006
Mielikäinen, Taneli	2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2007), Special Track on Data Mining (DM), Seoul, Korea, March 11–15, 2007
Mielikäinen, Taneli	The Tenth International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2007), Sendai, Japan, October 1–4, 2007
Mielikäinen, Taneli	The 18th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2007), Warsaw, Poland, September 17–21, 2007
Myllymäki, Petri	Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2003-2004, 2006-2007
Myllymäki, Petri	Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2005, 2007
Myllymäki, Petri	International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (AKRR), 2005
Myllymäki, Petri	International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI), 2003)
Myllymäki, Petri	International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2001
Myllymäki, Petri	International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR), 2001
Mäntylä, Martti	International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB), 2005, 2007
Mäntylä, Martti	International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007
Mäntylä, Martti	Int. Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems (CAPS), 2005-2007
Raatikainen, Kimmo	Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2002, 2005-2006
Raatikainen, Kimmo	Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) 2004
Raatikainen, Kimmo	EC/ACTS Integrated Networks and Services 2000
Raatikainen, Kimmo	Eurescom 3G Summit 2001
Raatikainen, Kimmo	Eurescom Summit 2005 on Ubiquitous Services and Applications - Exploiting the Potential, International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), 2005
Raatikainen, Kimmo	Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Symposium (Globecom), 2004
Raatikainen, Kimmo	IEE International Networking Conference 2000, 2002, 2004
Raatikainen, Kimmo	IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) 2001
Raatikainen, Kimmo	IEEE International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON), 2006
Raatikainen, Kimmo	IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2002
Raatikainen, Kimmo	IFIP IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks (MWCN), 2004
Raatikainen, Kimmo	IFIP TC6 WG6.7 International Conference on Intelligence in Networks (SmartNet) 2002, chair of program committee
Raatikainen, Kimmo	International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (Mobility), 2005-2006
Raatikainen, Kimmo	International IFIP-TC6 Networking Conference 2004-2006
Raatikainen, Kimmo	International Service Availability Symposium (ISAS) 2006, Co-chair of the organization committee
Raatikainen, Kimmo	SCS International Conference On Web-Based Modelling & Simulation (WebSim) 2000
Terzi, Evimaria	Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2006
Terzi, Evimaria	Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWak), 2006-2007)
Terzi, Evimaria	Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (KDD), 2007
Terzi, Evimaria	European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), 2005
Terzi, Evimaria	International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology (EDBT), 2004
Toivonen, Hannu	ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2006-2007
Toivonen, Hannu	ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2000-2007; senior program committee member (2006)
Toivonen, Hannu	ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), 2007
Toivonen, Hannu	Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology, 2000-2002
Toivonen, Hannu	European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2004
Toivonen, Hannu	European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), 2002, 2006, 2007; tutorial co-chair (2001), program co-chair (2002), area chair (2006, 2007)
Toivonen, Hannu	European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD), 2002-2004, 2006, 2007; tutorial co-chair (2001), program co-chair (2002), area chair (2006, 2007)
Toivonen, Hannu	IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2001-2004, 2006; program vice-chair (2002)
Toivonen, Hannu	IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM), 2007
Toivonen, Hannu	International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2000, 2007; best paper award committee (2007)
Toivonen, Hannu	International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK), 2000-2003
Toivonen, Hannu	International Conference on Discovery Science (DS), 2004
Toivonen, Hannu	International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2001-2002, 2005-2006; senior program committee member (2006), local chair (2008)
Toivonen, Hannu	International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2003
Toivonen, Hannu	International Symposium on Computational Life Science (CompLife), 2006
Toivonen, Hannu	International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA), 2007
Toivonen, Hannu	National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2000
Toivonen, Hannu	Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2002-2004, 2007
Toivonen, Hannu	SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2002-2007; best paper award committee (2005)
Toivonen, Hannu	SPIE Data Mining 2000, 2001, 2002;
Ukkonen, Esko	Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM), 2006
Ukkonen, Esko	International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), 2002, 2004
Ukkonen, Esko	International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT), 2005
Ukkonen, Esko	International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), 2006
Ukkonen, Esko	International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), 2005
Ukkonen, Esko	Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), 2004-2005