List the most important foreign collaborators, as defined in item 4.1.
Name and Organisation
Type of collaboration
Country
UNIVERSITIES
Aalborg University, Hans Andersen
Research collaboration (machine vision techniques, IPCity)
Denmark
Aalborg University, Lars Roost, Gustav Haraldsson, Per Toft
Joint research on HIP evaluation, OpenDHT-HIP interface
Denmark
Aarhus University Hospital
Joint research to develop methods for finding regulatory motifs and cascades. Integrated approach that combines computational and wet lab techniques.
Fields: Regulatory patterns in genomes, effect of SNPs on gene regulation.
Denmark
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
Exchange of researchers.
Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics.
Joint research, exchange of researchers.
Fields: Probabilistic modeling using inductive logic programming.
Germany
Centre for Network Computing, Multimedia University
Joint EU project on the are of mobile communication applied in developing countries
Malaysia
Danish Center for Design Research, Copenhagen, Director Thomas Binder
Book writing and research on design theory and studies
Denmark
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Constructions Aéronautiques (Ensica)
Joint ESA project in the area of satellite communication
France
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Distributed Information Systems Lab (EPFL): Karl Aberer
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
Switzerland
Eindhoven University of Technology
Gary Bente
Open Distributed Processing Reference Model and component standards, editors, national delegate, Involvement in the standardisation; context-aware mobile systems
Research collaboration in European projects
Netherlands, the
Georgia Tech, and University of Padova: Professor Alberto Apostolico
Exchange of researchers.
Field: String algorithmics.
USA, Italy
Graz University of Technology, Professor Dieter Schmalstieg
EU IPCity project Joint development on mobile mixed reality, Research collaboration (software development, IPCity)
Austria
Hannover School of Music and Drama, Christoph Klimmt
Research collaboration in European projects
Germany
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
Joint research, exchange of researchers.
Fields: Probabilistic modeling using inductive logic programming
United Kingdom
Renewable Resources Assessment Group (RRAG)
A joint EU project on statistical analysis of Baltic salmon population
Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics.
France
Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo: Dr. Shohei Shimizu
Dr. Hyvärinen visited Institute of Statistical Mathematics for one month in 2006.
Fields: Non-Gaussian probabilistic modeling.
Japan
Jozef Stefan Institute
Joint EU project
Fields: statistical multilingual analysis for retrieval and translation
Slovenia
Exchange of researchers.
Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics
Marko Grobelnik
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden: Professor Juha Kere
Research collaboration, joint supervision of Ph.D. students, sharing of personnel, and funding of some researchers from sources of the application groups
Field: medical genetics
Sweden
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven:
Belgium
Professor Luc De Raedt
Collaboration in joint research projects (currently April II and IQ), exchange of personnel
Fields: Machine learning in relational data
The VISICS team
A joint EU project on video summarization
The ICRI-LIIR team
A joint EU project on text summarization
King’s College, London: Professor Costas Iliopoulos
Joint projects, exchange of researchers.
Fields: Algorithms and software for retrieval and analysis of music sequences.
United Kingdom
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Lund University, Department of Information Technology: Anders Ardö
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
Sweden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nathan Eagle
Research
USA
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL): Associate Professor Tommi Jaakkola
Yearly visits, joint research.
Fields: Machine learning methods and their applications in modeling and analysis of molecular biological systems.
USA
Media Lab: Nathan Eagle
Joint field experiment leading to Eagle's PhD, joint journal paper
National Technical University of Athens,
Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory, Professor Stefanos Kollias
Professor Foto Afrati
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
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EU CALLAS project, development of multimodal empathic applications
data mining
Greece
Michigan State University, Frank Biocca
Research collaboration on projects and publications
USA
Osaka University, Division of Mathematical Sciences: Professor Yutaka Kano
Joint supervision of PhD student (Shohei Shimizu), who visited us for 18 months during his PhD and is now back for a post-doc period.
Fields: Non-Gaussian probabilistic modeling.
Japan
Polytechnique de Grenoble : Dr. Patrick Bas, Institut
Fields. Image processing.
France
Pomeranian Medical University
Joint research to develop methods for finding regulatory motifs and cascades. Integrated approach that combines computational and wet lab techniques.
Fields: Regulatory patterns in genomes, effect of SNPs on gene regulation.
Poland
Queen Mary and Westfield College London
Joint EU project in the area of
mobile computing and communications
UK
Rutgers University: Associate Professor Liviu Iftodé:
Joint Ph.D. workshops
USA
RWTH Aachen University of Technology
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Germany
Scottish Agriculture College
Joint EU project on the are of mobile communication applied in developing countries
UK
Stanford University, Byron Reeves
Research collaboration and information exchange
USA
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
A joint EU project on statistical analysis of Baltic salmon population.
Sweden
Technical University of Denmark, Center of Knowledge Technology (DTU): Gert Schmeltz Pedersen
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
Denmark
Technical University of Madrid
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Spain
Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science and Technology, China: Lizhu Zhou
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies, research exchange, joint workshop organization activities
University of California at Riverside: Professor Dimitrios Gunopulos
Joint research
Fields: Pattern discovery in complex data sets, spatiotemporal data
USA
University of California at Santa Cruz
USA
Professor Dimitris Achlioptas
NSF proposal in preparation.
Fields: High-dimensional data, sums of products
University of California, Berkeley
USA
SIMS, Garage Cinema Research Group: Marc Davis
Joint construction of a mobile media application leading to several publications at SIMS
CS Department, Professor Randy Katz, Associate Professor Anthony Joseph
Joint Ph.D. workshops, joint research
CS Department, Professor Michael Jordan
Student exchange visits
SIMS, Professor Hal Varian
Joint research, research visits
SIMS, Professor Annalee Saxenian
Joint research, research visits
ICSI & CS Department, Professor Scott Shenker
Joint research, research visits, joint experiments, joint research centre (in preparation)
SIMS, Professor Mark Davis
Joint research, research visits
SIMS, Professor Nancy Van House
Joint research, research visits
Sociology, Professor Manuel Castells (also at University of Southern California)
Joint research, research visits
University of Cambridge
Examining doctoral theses
United Kingdom
University of Catania
Joint EU projects in the area of mobile computing and communications
Italy
University of Cologne, Gary Bente
Research collaboration in European projects
Germany
University of Copenhagen
Examining doctoral thesises
Denmark
University of Edinburgh, AHRC Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Dean Hector MacQueen
Research collaboration
United Kingdom
University of Florence, Florence
Joint research, exchange of researchers.
Fields: Probabilistic modeling using inductive logic programming.
Italy
University of Hamburg-Harburg (Murugarag Shanmugam, Aarthi Nagarajan)
Joint research on HIP registration protocol
Germany
University of Kassel
Joint project
Fields: Context-aware mobile systems
Germany
University of Konstanz: Professor Michael Berthold, Professor Dietmar Saupe
Cooperation in PhD programme
Fields: computer science
Germany
University of Maastricht: Professor Elia Formisano and Professor Rainer Goebel
Fields: Brain imaging data analysis methods. Specific topic: Stability analysis of ICA and application of ICA on data from different subjects.
Netherlands, The
University of Malmö, Professor Pelle Ehn
Book writing and research on design theory and studies
Sweden
University of Milan – Bicocca, Professor Giorgio De Michelis
Book writing and research on design theory and studies
Italy
University of Naples: Dr. Fabrizio Esposito
Fields: Brain imaging data analysis methods. Specific topic: Stability analysis of ICA and application of ICA on data from different subjects.
Italy
University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, The Visual Geometry Group
Joint EU project on image & video analysis
United Kingdom
University of Paris 6
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
France
University of Parma (UNIPR), Department of Information Engineering, Dr. Natalya Fedotova
Joint research on HIP for P2P
Italy
University of Sao Paulo, Laboratory of Computer Architecture and Networks, Prof. Tereza Cristina M. B. Carvalho
Joint research on HIP measurements, Hi3
Brazil
University of Salford: Drew Hemment
Location Oriented Critical Arts (LOCA) project with two book chapters, a large installation at the 2006 International Symposium on Electronic Art and a joint journal article
United Kingdom
University of Southampton,
Professor John-Shaw-Taylor
Joint EU project
Fields: statistical multilingual analysis for retrieval and translation
Joint EU project on information retrieval methods, researcher visits
United Kingdom
University of Surrey
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications, context-aware mobile systems
United Kingdom
University of Texas at Arlington: Professor Gautam Das
Joint research.
Fields: Pattern discovery, high-dimensional data.
USA
University of Tübingen and RWTH Aachen, Klaus Wehrle
Joint research, research visits, joint workshops,
Germany
University of Utah, Thomas Henderson
Standardization, research
USA
University of Wales Aberysthwyth
Exchange of researchers.
Fields: Inductive databases targeted to applications in bioinformatics.
United Kingdom
Valencia Technical University, Mariano Alcaniz
Research collaboration in European projects
Spain
Vienna University of Technology, Professor Ina Wagner, Thomas Psik
EU IPCity project Mixed reality in urban environments and joint analysis of field material
Austria
Waseda University, Tatsuo Nakajima
Research visits
Japan
RESEARCH INSTITUTES
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands: Peter Grünwald, Vitanyi
A joint EU project on compression-based modeling, a joint EU project on MDL theory, several short- and long-term research visits;
Joint project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Netherlands, the
CNRS
A joint EU project on visual recognition
France
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI): Dr. Alvis Brazma
Type: research collaboration on analysis of gene expression and gene regulation, exchange of researchers, joint project
Field: gene expression data analysis
United Kingdom
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Greece
Fraunhofer Institute (GMD), Dr Wolfgang Broll
Jan Ohlenburg
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications, context-aware mobile systems
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Research collaboration (software infrastructure, IPCity)
Germany
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Joint research to develop methods for finding regulatory motifs and cascades. Fields: Regulatory patterns in genomes, effect of SNPs on gene regulation.
Germany
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Anthony Jameson
Joint research
Germany
INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique:
Claire Nédellec
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
France
INRIA
France
Joint EU and ESA projects in the area of mobile computing and communications
INRIA Rocquencourt
Joint research, exchange of researchers.
Fields: Probabilistic modeling using inductive logic programming.
INRIA Lyon, the LEAR team
A joint EU project on visual recognition
Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen:
Clive Best
Joint research regarding Europe Media Monitor.
- Applying language technology to process epidemiological text
collections
Italy
Max-Planck
Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, the Empirical Inference for Machine Learning and Perception department
A joint EU project on semi-supervised learning
Germany
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Kristina Höök, Bengt Ahlgren
Research, joint project
Sweden
Swedish National Board of Fisheries SNBF
A joint EU project on statistical analysis of Baltic salmon population
Sweden
Enterprises
3eyes Ltd: Theo Humphries
Joint research and art installations
Fields: Context-awareness and privacy
United Kingdom
Agora Systems
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Spain
Alcatel
Joint research projects
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Belgium
Alcatel-CIT
Joint research project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
France
ALMA Bioinformatica, S.L.,
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
Spain
BellStream SP.z.o.o, Szczecin
Joint project
Fields: Context-aware mobile systems
Poland
Boeing Phantom Works, Dr. Tom Henderson
Co-chairing IRTF research group on HIP, joint research on HIP deployment
USA
British Telecom
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
UK
CIT
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Denmark
CSEM Centre Suisse d’electronique et de Microtechnique
Joint project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Switzerland
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Sebastian Möller, Michael Rohs
Joint research
Germany
DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Munich
Joint project
Fields: Mobile computing and communications;
Context-aware mobile systems
Germany
Engineering, Massimo Bertoncini
EU CALLAS project Partners in demonstration and trials
Italy
European Media Laboratory GmbH (EML)
Joint EU project in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Germany
European Software Institute
Joint project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Spain
Exalead SA
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
France
Fagor
Joint project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Spain
Febit Biotech GmbH
Joint research
Fields: Regulatory patterns in genomes, effect of SNPs on gene regulation.
Germany
France Telecom
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
France
Google Inc.
Fields: database systems
USA
Hewlett-Packard Italiana srl. Cernusco Sul Naviglio
Joint project
Fields: Context-aware mobile systems
Italy
Ikerlan
Joint project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Spain
Index Data Aps
A joint EU project on next-generation search technologies
Denmark
Intel Research Seattle: Ian Smith
Co-organisation of a workshop in MobileHCI 2004, researcher exchange
USA
Intracom
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Greece
Italtel
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Italy
LM Ericsson Ab
Joint projects
Fields: Mobile computing and communications;
Context-aware mobile systems
Sweden
Megaskills
Joint EU project on the are of mobile communication applied in developing countries
United Kingdom
Microsoft, Search Labs; Dr. Rakesh Agrawal
Fields: information technology, database systems
USA
Microsoft Cambridge, Tuomas Aura
Conference papers, joint research on HIP security analysis
United Kingdom
Motorola Ltd, Basingstoke Hants
Joint project
Fields: Context-aware mobile systems
United Kingdom
Motorola SAS, Gif Sur Yvette
Joint project
Fields: Context-aware mobile systems
France
NEC Europe Ltd
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications, context-aware mobile systems
Joint research on RVS implementation for HIP
Germany
NEOS Engineering SRL, Brescia
Joint project
Fields: Context-aware mobile systems
Italy
NTT DoKoMo
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Germany/Japan
Océ
Joint project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Netherlands, the
Philips
Joint research projects
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Netherlands, The
Portugal Telecom Inovação
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications
Portugal
Robotiker
Joint project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Spain
Saia burgess
Joint project
Fields: context-aware mobile systems
Spain
Siemens
Hannes Tschofenig
Joint EU projects in the area of
mobile computing and communications, context-aware mobile systems
Standardization, conference papers, joint research on HIP middleboxes
Fields: statistical multilingual analysis for retrieval and translation
Joint EU projects in the area of text analysis and information retrieval
France
Yahoo! Research Barcelona: Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Professor Raghu Ramakrishnan
Exchange of researchers, joint projects
Field: Web mining, text mining, information retrieval
Spain
Yahoo! Research Berkeley: Marc Davis, Mor Naaman
Joint research on social media
USA
Networks of Excellence, European projects, other networks
Biosapiens – European Network of Excellence for Integrated Genome Annotation, Dr. Janet Thornton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
Joint research, exchange of researchers, researcher education.
Fields: Analysis and annotation of biological sequences.
Europe
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research network Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception, organized by Geoffrey Hinton, Toronto.
Joint research
Canada
MINEMA, Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications (ESF programme)
Exchange of researchers, researcher education
Fields: mobile computing and communications
Europe
PASCAL – European Network of Excellence on Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Computational Learning.
Exchange of researchers, researcher education, research seminars.
Fields: Europe-wide Distributed Institute which will pioneer principled methods of pattern analysis, statistical modelling and computational learning.
Europe
13th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'02) and 6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'02), 19-23 August, 2002, Helsinki
International scientific conference with about 200 participants
Program chairs: Tapio Elomaa, Heikki Mannila, Hannu Toivonen; organizing chair: Helena Ahonen-Myka
International
1st International Mobile IPR Workshop: Rights Management of Information Products on the Mobile Internet
International workshop, organiser: Olli Pitkänen
International
Proactive Computing Workshop (PROW 2004), 25-26 November, 2004, Helsinki
International PhD student workshop conference with 54 participants
Organiser: Greger Lindén
International
Seminar on Challenge of Creative Economy, 1 June 2005, Helsinki,. Finland
The Finnish Parliament's Committee and HIIT co-organisers. Speakers at the event included the Minister of Treasury Antti Kalliomäki, Professor Manuel Castells, PhD Pekka Himanen and CEO Matti Alahuhta. The seminar was chaired by the chairman of the Committee for the Future, Member
of Parliament Jyrki Katainen.
International
Workshop on Context-Awareness for Proactive Systems (CAPS 2005), 16-17 June, 2005, Helsinki
International scientific workshop conference with 33 participants
Program Chairs: Patrik Floréen, Kimmo Raatikainen, organisers: Greger Lindén, Tiina Niklander
International
International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IIIA 2006), 6-8 July, 2006, Helsinki
International scientific workshop conference with 45 participants
Co-chairs: Wray Buntine, Henry Tirri
Organising chair: Petri Myllymäki,
International
Dagstuhl Seminar 06441: Naming and Addressing for Next-Generation Internetworks
