A researcher with visions
Professor Seif Haridi is a researcher with a clear vision as to how communication will be in the future. He sees before him a network of computers that are “equal” and with the same rights and the same responsibilities - where all computers make contributions based on their ability. What interests him is the actual computer systems - the architectural and structural aspects of the networks, and how the computers cooperate for example in carrying out common tasks.
“Quite simply my research is about how to connect together computers in the best way in order to execute a certain service,” Seif Haridi explains. There are a multitude of services on the Internet that work in this way. Take for example Skype which enables many computers to work together to perform a service.
New challenges for the universities - on the way towards “Humboldt 2.0”
Hannu Tenhunen is a professor of electronic systems design and is also extremely interested in issues that concern education, entrepreneurship and innovation and has established extensive international cooperation. He sees before him a completely new type of university – a type of post-Humboldt – where success is based on collective efforts through broad cooperation.
According to Hannu Tenhunen we are about to leave the old Humboldt ideal which has governed universities in the West for several hundred years. We are now at the end of the age of the Humboldt ideal with open universities slightly isolated from the rest of the world.”
Professor in close-up: Common right of access on the airwaves
Professor Jens Zander wants people to use the frequency space on the airwaves in the best and most efficient way. The networks should also be used by others, not just by the major operators that have licenses. He wants to see, right of access with regard to the utilization of the frequency spectrum – a right which also means that we have obligations.
Professor Jens Zander is one of the country's most powerful IT individuals if we are to believe Ny Teknik. For several years he has been among the three top 50 in the magazine's annual list where he has been given the epithet “Mobile Guru”. He is one of the leading researchers in mobile communication.
