You are cordially invited to join us celebrating the opening of the Nokia Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland (on the EPFL campus)
Nokia Research Center will open a laboratory in Lausanne creating a vibrant community linking researchers from Nokia and the Swiss Institutes of Technology. This open model of collaboration has already been successful for Nokia Research Center - which collaborates with world-class universities and research institutes around the world, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University in the US and University of Cambridge, UK.
This collaboration will focus on helping people benefit from a world where they are connected to each other, to the Internet and also to information from the surrounding physical world. Access to the "Internet of Things" from a mobile device will allow people to collect information from their physical environment, filter it based on their location or preferences and share with their friends or communities. The initial joint research agenda will focus on pervasive communications.
This inaugural scientific workshop will highlight some of the themes both at the core and periphery of the joint research agenda, ranging from data dissemination, context awareness and search algorithms to market issues, environmental applications and sustainable development. The programme will consist of presentations by top notch speakers from Nokia Research Center and EPFL. Prof. David McKay, from University of Cambridge, will provide us with a perspective on the future of fossil and sustainable energy, as information data centers are rapidly becoming a major energy consumer.
Here you can find Keynote abstracts and speaker bios
Workshop Program:
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13:30 |
Welcome - Juha Laurila, Laboratory Director, Nokia Research Center |
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13:40 |
Ubiquitous Computing Reaches Out: Computing, Context, Communities - Pertti Huuskonen, Principal Member of Research Staff, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland |
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14:10 |
Sensorscope and Lidar Changing Alpine Hydrology - Marc Parlange, Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL |
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14:40 |
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air - |
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15:30 |
Coffee Break & Nokia Demos |
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16:00 |
Algorithms for Web Search - Monika Henzinger, Professor at the School of Communication and Computer Sciences, EPFL |
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16:30 |
Industrial Perspective on Theories of Communication - Olav Tirkkonen, Principal Member of Research Staff, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland (Professor, Helsinki University of Technology) |
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17:00 |
Experimenting with Tailor-made Double-sided Markets - Peter L. Bossaerts, Professor in the College of Management of Technology, EPFL |
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17:30 |
Distribution of Data on Unreliable Networks - Amin Shokrollahi, Professor in the Schools of Basic Sciences and of Communication and Computer Sciences, EPFL |
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18:00 |
Closing - Patrick Thiran, Professor in the School of Computer and Communications Sciences, EPFL |
Further information on Nokia Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland please check Corporate Press releases.
