Helsinki Institute for Inromation Technology HIIT
HIIT is a joint venture between the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology. Its mission is to carry out internationally prominent basic and strategic research in information technology and to promote the competitiveness of the IT industry in the long run by connecting Finnish university research with the innovative process in the industries, especially in the area of long-term strategic R&D. The institute also counts multi-disciplinary research cooperation with universities and other research institutes as one of its missions. Currently, HIIT is carrying out the following research programmes: Algorithmic data analysis; Future Internet; Network Society; Probabilistic adaptive systems.
Contact person: Professor Esko Ukkonen, Academy Professor Heikki Mannila
Research groups in HIIT at the Department:
- Adaptive Computing
- Combinatorial Pattern Matching
- Complex Systems Computation Group (CoSCo)
- Data Mining: Theory and Applications (also at TKK)
- Discovery Group: Data Mining for Pattern and Link Discovery
- Neuroinformatics
There are also several other research groups in HIIT located in Otaniemi.