Last one until September!
Probably!
Know How Talk
Thu, 6/21/07 5:00 pm
IDEO
Cafe*
Open to friends and family
Dr. Henry Tirri
Research Fellow and Head of System Research
Centers, Nokia Research
Dr. Henry Tirri is Research Fellow and Head of
System Research Centers (SRC), Nokia Research Center, Nokia’s corporate research
unit. Interacting closely with all Nokia business groups,, Nokia Research Center
is responsible for the strategic and long-term research in Nokia. Henry is
responsible for the research at the Systems Research Centers which strive for
disruptive systems research with open innovation collaboration globally. SRCs
thrive to enable new business opportunities for Nokia by extending the
traditional Nokia realm of research, with strong relations to and a strong
presence in world leading innovation ecosystems.
Henry joined Nokia in
2004 as Research Fellow at Software and Applications Laboratory. He holds Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Unioversity of Helsinki, Finland. He is also a
Professor of Computer Science at the Univeristy of Helsinki and an Adjunct
Professor of Computational Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology.
His interests lie in various subfields of Artificial Intelligence, information
theory, search technologies and wireless sensor networks.
Henry has
extensive experience in running both research activities in the fields of
intelligent systems and networking. Before joining Nokia he was the Head of
Graduate School at University of Helsinki, Head of Intelligent Systems
Laboratory and was leading a large world-class research group in probabilistic
modeling. He has held various positions of Research Scientist at MCC, MTS at
At&T Bell Laboratories, Visiting Associate Professor at Purdue University,
Visiting Sicentist at NASA AMES, Visiting Professor at Stanford University and
UC Berkeley, and Vice President of Scientific Operations and Co-Founder of
Ekahau.
Henry is the author and co-author of more tha 170 academic papers
in various fields of Computer Science, Social Sciences and Statistics. He has
five patents.
Upcoming Know How
Talks
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Next week's talk has been postponed, and there
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Look for an announcement in August or
so.
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