Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT Martti Mntyl

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT Martti Mäntylä Research Director

HIIT in a Nutshell • Established in March 1999 • Operational start August 1, 1999 • Research Director Martti Mäntylä • Director of Basic Research Unit Heikki Mannila • Alliances: the largest Finnish ICT and media • • • companies, international partners Operational model: strategic research programs, independently funded basic research unit, international projects, postgraduate education First programs started early 2000; presently 8 projects in progress with some 40 researchers 6 new projects submitted for 2002

Mission: to Focus on. . . • Performing top-level advanced and basic research in • • • such areas of information technology as deemed to be strategically important in the next 5 -10 years Maintaining a close alliance with the leading ICT companies and partner research institutions nationally and worldwide Offering best possible infrastructure, tools, and facilities for the HIIT’s own and affiliated research groups Building new competences by attracting best talents through post-graduate education and international recruiting

Industrial Partners Manufacturers: Nokia, Ericsson Operators: Sonera, Elisa Content Providers: Alma Media, Sanoma-WSOY, Finnish Broadcasting Corp. , Nordea Bank IT Companies: Tieto-Enator

Organisation Board Industrial Advisory Board Scientific Advisory Board Director, Basic Research Advanced Research Unit Basic Research Unit Fuego. Media Digital Convergence Economy Proactive Data Computing Analysis <Program 3>

Research Groups From Data to Knowledge, UH Data Analysis Group Mobile Computing Group Complex System Computation Proactive Group Computing Group Institute of Electronic Commerce, HSEBA Digital Economy Group User Experience Group Smart Products, UIAH

Advanved Research Unit • Led by Director of HIIT • Strategic planning assistance from Industrial Advisory • • Board Advanced research programmes combining resources of several groups from universities and industry (20– 40 researchers/program) consisting of – A core project with long-term vision (3– 5 years) – Shorter term (2– 3 years) adjunct projects focusing on new products, services, and technologies – Funding mainly from industry and TEKES IPR provisions managed by standard project agreement developed jointly with the IAB

Basic Research Unit • Led by Director of Basic Research in co-operation with • • the Scientific Advisory Board Focused research programme; public research, open source policy Senior researchers, post-docs, research groups Core funding from universities – University of Helsinki: at least 4 MFIM per year for 5 years 1. 1. 2001 -31. 12. 2005; continuation TBD after a public scientific review – Helsinki University of Technology: TBD Additional funding sought from Academy, companies, . . .

Fuego: Future Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing • Focus: key applications and enabling technologies for • • • future generation mobile and ubiquitous computing Between (2000 -2002, 24 person-years) – User-centered product concept development for new services based on ubiquitous computing Sarcous (2000 -2002, 14 py) – Terminal and access point software and service configuration, dynamic reconfiguration 2002: Core project, 1 -2 adjunct projects – Fuego Core: Ubicomp middleware – Ubi. Cast: Context management and adaptation – PETS: Adaptive personal Web

Fuego 2002 Nokia Sonera Elisa Soininen Sonera UIAH Ind. design More Magic UH/Cogn. science Sarcous Mobile terminal s/w configuration Mäntylä Raatikainen Between Fuego CORE Middleware for Mobile Wireless Internet Tirri Ubicast Nokia? Predicting user activities Sanoma-WSOY UCB/EECS Randy Katz New ubicomp services Nokia Sonera Elisa Alma Media Tirri PETS Adaptive Personal Web Sonera Nokia Sanoma-WSOY

Media Convergence • Focus: end-to-end service provision architecture for • • next generation content services MC Core (2000 -2002, 12 py) – Content production and management XML Devices (2001 -2003, 18 py) – XML based multimedia terminal software PAI (2000 -2002, 13 py) – Personal adaptive interfaces 2002: 1 -2 adjunct projects – Semantic Web – Digital TV –based content broadcast infrastructure – Content delivery infrastructure, caching, proxies

Media Convergence 2002 Vuorimaa & Södergård VTT Inf. Tech. Ota. DTV Digital TV content broadcast ? ? ICash Vuorimaa XML Devices Vuorimaa, Ahonen-Myka, Puustjärvi Intelligent content caching Light XML browser development Core Project Comet: Metadata & ontologies ACME: Automatic content management Hyvönen Semantic Web Service catalogues, topic maps Tirri PAI Adaptive user interfaces

Digital Economy • Focus: theories, methods and tools for mobile electronic • • • commerce and digital markets DE Preparation project (2000 -2001, 3 py) – Program preparation, adjunct project planning Regulatory framework (2000 -2002, 2 py) – User data rights management in location services Mobile. IPR (2000 -2002, 12 py) – IPR and user rights management in mobile services STAMI (2001 -2003, 14 py) – Content validity, personal privacy, attitudes 2002: Core: business models and their supporting infrastructures; 1 -2 adjunct projects (P 2 P? )

Digital Economy 2002 Kemppinen UCB/SIMS NAVI Regulation of location services Kemppinen Mobile. IPR DRM & business models UCB/ICSI Kemppinen & Mäntylä DE Core Structures of Digital Ecomomy Främling P-to-P Digital Economy Kemppinen & Himanen Welfare of Nations Network society study Mäntylä STAMI Security technology, personal privacy

Deep Computing • Focus: Grand challenge modelling and analysis • • • problems in science and business Data modelling and analysis, high-end computing, search and optimisation, high-dimensional visualisation Deep modelling: predicting and data mining with very large (possibly on-line) data sets Deep optimisation: Computationally efficient optimisation of complex multivariate cost functions Deep view: Interfaces for understanding highdimensional data Deep applications: computational biology, ubicomp

Milestones • Preparation of the first research programs, Sept. 1999 • Letter of Intent on offices at HTC Helsinki, Oct. 1999 • Submission of first draft proposals, end of Oct. 1999 • DE preparation project launch, January 2000 • MC core project launch, June 2000 • Fuego program launch, August 2000 • DE/Mobile. IPR project launch at UCB, August 2000 • HIIT-UCB Summer School on Future Telecomm • • Architectures, May-June 2001 Move to HTC offices, Sept. 2001 Basic Research Unit launch, Dec. 2001

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