Events 2001

10.12.2001: The Basic Research Unit of HIIT organised jointly with the Laboratory of Theoretical Computer Science of HUT a seminar on Energy-Constrained Computation. Speakers included Heikki Mannila (HIIT/BRU), Markku Åberg (VTT), Patrik Floréen (UH) and Pekka Orponen (HUT).

2.11.2001: HIIT organised the seminar Semantic Web Kick-off [2] at University of Helsinki, Porthania, Room P3. The seminar investigated the present state of Semantic Web research in Finland, with the aim of helping the planned research activity at HIIT to get off ground. Prof. Eero Hyvönen [3] of the University of Helsinki chaired the seminar.

9.-11.6.2001: The first UCB-HIIT Summer School on Telecommunications Software Architectures [4] was run in Otaniemi. Speakers included Prof. Randy Katz from University of California at Berkeley, Prof. Kimmo Raatikainen from UH and Prof. Heikki Mannila of HUT. The first part of the Summer School was run at UC Berkeley on May 29 and 30. Its speakers included Dr. Charles Perkins from Nokia Research and Prof. John Chuang from UCB/SIMS.