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Division of Mathematical Methods of Information
Technology - Brief history
The core of the division is the research group formed
in 1988, soon after the foundation of the Rolf Nevanlinna Institute. The group
started neural computing research at the University of Helsinki and its research
area later expanded to encompass related questions of applied mathematics,
statistics, and information technology. One area of expertise is statistical
pattern recognition and the group has pioneered the teaching of the relevant
mathematical methodology in the University of Helsinki.
The work of the division has been financed mostly by grants and project funds.
The sources have included Academy
of Finland, graduate schools funded by the Ministry of Education, Technology
Development Center, University of Helsinki, as well as private foundations
and industry.
Past application projects
Past collaborative work has included for example participation in the discovery
of the top quark with researchers of Fermilab
and Rice University (H. Miettinen
and S. Sain), development of wireless communication detection algorithms with
Nokia Research Center, (A. Hottinen and
A. Hämäläinen), and a feasibility study of handwritten digit recognition
with the Laboratory of Computer and Information
Science of the Helsinki University of Technology (E. Oja).
Other Finnish academic partners of the division have also included the
Low Temperature Laboratory (the brain research group, R. Ilmoniemi) and
the Institute for Industrial Automation (robotics, J. Alander) of the Helsinki
University of Technology and the
Laboratory of Information Processing of the Lappeenranta University of
Technology (Computer Vision, E. Oja).
A recent industrial project involved a mobile phone market survey
study for Nokia.
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