International Evaluation of Finnish Computer Science

Computer Science in Finland 2000-2006

Evaluation Form

Evaluation of Computer Science in Finland (2000-2006)

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

GENERAL INFORMATION 1

1. RESOURCES 5

2. RESEARCH OUTPUT 7

3. Doctoral training 42

4. National and international collaboration 44

5. Other scientific and societal activities 74

6. The Unit’s self-assessment 87

7. Funding 93

GENERAL INFORMATION

Organisation	Helsinki University of Technology & University of Helsinki
Department or equivalent	Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
Address	P.O. Box 9800 (Metsäneidonkuja 4, Espoo) FI-02015 TKK Finland P.O. Box 5400 (Konemiehentie 2, Espoo) FI-02015 TKK Finland P.O. Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2b, Helsinki), FI-00014 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, Finland
Phone	[phone] [phone] [phone]
Internet home page	http://www.hiit.fi
Head of the Department	Professor Martti Mäntylä
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Email	[e-mail]
Contact person for the Evaluation	Päivi Saarinen
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Email	[e-mail]
Head of the Department	Professor Esko Ukkonen
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Contact person for the Evaluation	Greger Lindén
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G.1. Percentage that computer science represents in the research carried out in the unit¹

95

G.2. The unit’s research profile within computer science

(give estimate of the percentage)

Research field	(%)
Theory of computation
Algorithms and data structures	5
Programming languages
Software engineering
Parallel and distributed systems	5
Databases, data mining	25
Communications	25
Computer architecture
Human-computer interaction	10
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision	20
Computer graphics
Other: Digital media	10