Transcript Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT

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
Director,
Basic Research
Advanced Research
Unit
Basic Research
Unit
FuegoMedia
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
– UbiCast: Context management and adaptation
– PETS: Adaptive personal Web
Fuego 2002
Nokia
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
New ubicomp
services
Ubicast
Nokia?
Sonera
Elisa
Alma Media
Predicting user
activities
Sanoma-WSOY
Nokia
UCB/EECS
Randy Katz
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.
OtaDTV
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
• MobileIPR (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 (P2P?)
Digital Economy 2002
Kemppinen
UCB/SIMS
NAVI Regulation
Regulation of
location services
Kemppinen
MobileIPR
DRM & business
models
UCB/ICSI
Kemppinen &
Himanen
Kemppinen & Mäntylä
DE Core
Structures of
Digital Ecomomy
Främling
P-to-P Digital
Economy
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/MobileIPR 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
High Tech Center Helsinki
HIIT