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James Reilly
Principal Member of Research Staff
Helsinki, Finland
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Background

I work in NRC's Internet Consumer Services team in Helsinki, Finland.

I am the project manager for Nokia Friend View. It is an experimental research project by Nokia Research Center, published through Nokia Beta Labs. Friend View is a social location and micro-blogging service that helps you keep up with your close friends. With Friend View, it is fun to share what you do and feel, and you can easily do this from home, work, or on the go! The experimental service is available on the go via a Nokia S60 application (S60 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 5.0 Touch) application for a variety of Nokia S60 phones. It also has a desktop web browser user interface. See the Nokia Friend View pages for more details!

In the past I was a group manager in the Software Architecture and Runtimes competence area at Nokia Research Center. For several years, I was also the program manager of a R&D program on Social Interaction Applications where we worked on topics such as calendar sharing, social phonebook, P2P and mobile-hosted friend applications, and mobile social software generally through rapid prototyping.

Over the years I've also worked on a variety of interesting topics at Nokia, from transmission network management systems, architecting, building and deploying J2EE server-side systems (for Club Nokia), connected mobile Java applications research, and even multiplayer mobile games.

I really enjoy having the chance to work on finding new ways to help people stay connected to their family, friends and other communities, and that can help bring everyday people closer together: easily and enjoyably. For me, the most interesting topics are user research related questions and research into human sociality. And I love a 'hands-on' approach of building and trying out real end-to-end software systems and gathering user feedback to gain new insights both into human behaviour and into underlying technology questions.

 

Professional Activities

I was a member of J2ME™ Web Services Specification (JSR 172) expert group.

 

Research Interests

  • Mobile and Internet Social services
  • Sharing media
  • Location services
  • Fun mobile interaction
 

Research Projects

  • This is a list of some topics I've worked on over the years:
  • mobile social interaction applications,
  • J2ME™ standards,
  • mobile Java applications,
  • Web services,
  • multiplayer mobile Java client/server games,
  • developing J2ME MIDP tutorials (downloadable from Forum Nokia
  • ATM and SDH transmission network management,
  • architecture, design, and development of J2EE-based (servlets, EJBs, etc.) systems.
 

Personal Information

Work

  • 1994-present: Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland, - I've been involved with R&D on a variety of topics in a variety of technical and, project and management roles.
  • 1991-1995: Helsinki University of Technology, co-lecturer for Computer Networks course
  • 1988-1994: The Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland, - OSI network protocols, ASN.1 compilers, SNMP and GDMO based network management and MIB compilers
  • 1985-1988: AT&T Bell Laboraties, N.J., USA, - mechanized loop testing

Education

  • PhD Computer Science, 1999, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
  • M.Sc.E.E. 1987, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, N.Y.C., U.S.A.
 

Publications

Book Chapters

Java™ in the Mobile Domain, J. Reilly, K.Systä, pp. 235-242, Mobile Internet Technical Architecture, Technologies and Standardization, IT Press, 2002, ISBN 951-826-668-9

White Papers

  • MIDP1.0: Introduction to MIDlet programming, v1.0, 2001.
  • A Game MIDlet Example Using The Nokia UI API: BlockGame v1.0, 2001.
  • MIDP 1.0: Delivery Example 1.0, networked workflow MIDlet example, 2002.
  • MIDP 1.0: Introduction to Clients for Web Services v1.0, 2002.
  • MIDP 2.0: Introduction to using Sockets and Datagrams, 2003.
  • Additional APIs: Introduction To Developing Networked MIDlets Using Bluetooth (With Example) v1.0, 2004.

All of the above can be located on http://www.forum.nokia.com/java under the Code and Examples section - or through the site's search box.

 

Presentations

Conferences

  • Implementing Multiplayer MIDP Games over Mobile Networks, J. Reilly, Java Technology Conference 2004, Tokyo, Japan download pdf
  • Developing MIDP Client/Server Applications, D.Price, J. Reilly, JavaOne conference, San Francisco, U.S.A., March 2002
  • Fun with Your Phone: David Price & James Reilly, Nokia Research Center; JavaOne 2002 BOF, San Francisco
  • Developing MIDP Client/Server Applications, J.Reilly, D.Price, JavaOne conference, San Francisco, U.S.A., June 2001
  • Enabling Mobile Network Managers, J.Reilly, P.Niska, L.Deri. D.Gantenbien, Sixth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW6), 1997, download pdf
 
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