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Professor Paul Cohen from Stanford visits SICS
Take this opportunity to attend his lectures on Forcing and Number Theory. See details.
We are pleased to invite you to ACM SIGCOMM, the leading scientific conference in computer communications, in Stockholm, August 28 - September 1, 2000. For details, please see http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2000
Microsoft sponsrar ny svensk forskning om datasäkerhet
Microsoft Research i Cambridge, UK, och Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SICS, har undertecknat ett avtal som i två år finansierar en forskargrupp på SICS för att utveckla ett system för flexibel och decentraliserad hantering av en komplex säkerhetspolicy.
Läs hela pressreleasen!
A Workshop on Security, Middleware, and Languages was organized by SICS and Dept. of Teleinformatics, KTH, on June 15 and 16, 2000. See details.
Openhouse Day
Bo Hedfors, Vice President of Motorola, opened the annual Openhouse Day at SICS on May 12 with a much appreciated talk about the current plans of Motorola. See his slides [ppt format]! The rest of the day was filled with seminars and demos at SICS.
We want to thank all our guests for contributing to the day!
Seminarium 13 april: Informationsförädling
Gruppen Information and Language Engineering (ILE) höll den 13:e april ett seminarium i Informationsförädling d v s användandet av olika sorters språkteknologi för att hitta, bearbeta, sammanställa och presentera information ur text utifrån ett specifikt perspektiv eller informationsbehov.
Läs mera på ILE-gruppens nyhetssida!
Gunnar Bjurel var inför IT-propositionen, inbjuden som talare på SNS konferens om "Bredband åt alla" den 23/3 och höll då ett föredrag om tjänster och teknik. Läs presentationen!
Two Doctors
"Stylistic Experiments for Information Retrieval"
Jussi Karlgren defends his thesis for doctoral degree on Wednesday March 29, 2000, 1 p.m. at Stockholm University, Institutionen för lingvistik, Frescaty, Building B, Hall. See abstract.
"Toward Human-Robot Collaboration"
Kristian Simsarian defends his thesis for doctoral degree on Thursday March 30, 2000, 1 p.m. at KTH/NADA, Lindstedtsvägen 3. See abstract .
Thesis
Ashley Saulsbury defended his thesis "Attacking latency bottlenecks in distributed shared memory systems" on Tuesday December 14, 1999
Ashley Saulsbury has been working at SICS for about 6 years, and for the last 4 years at SUN Microsystems research labs in California. He participated in the SICS research on Cache-Only Multiprocessor system.
Opponent: Professor Michel Dubois, University of Southern California, USA
Supervisors: Seif Haridi, Per Stenström
Read the abstract.
Effnet Grand Prize Winner of the European IST Prize
The prize was awarded for the Effnet ROC (Router On a Card). ROC is a router assembled on a PCI-card. It transforms any standard server to a multifunctional communication platform. The capabilities offered by the Effnet Algorithm are opening the door to an entirely new class of multifunction devices that integrate gigabit routing and high performance security with the servers native networking features, which traditionally has required three or more dedicated boxes.
Effnet was established in 1997 as a spin-off from Luleå University of Technology and SICS. The company is based on the Effnet Algorithm, a way to significantly improve the speed of router table lookups. Today Effnet is a growing company with 40 employees, with offices in Luleå and Stockholm, Sweden, and Boston in the USA.
http://www.effnet.se/
Gunnar Bjurel new Managing Director of SICS
Gunnar Bjurel is the name of the new Managing Director of SICS, succeeding Rainer Berling on November 1, 1999.
Gunnar Bjurel comes from Telia TeleCom AB where he was responsible for the development of Telia's telephone-, datacom- and Internet services.
Gunnar started out as a researcher and university teacher and worked on his dissertation at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH/NADA during the seventies. He also worked for the Defense Research Establishment (FOA) before he crossed over to the business sector. He has then spent the larger part of his career at Ellemtel and Ericsson in Sweden and Italy with research and product development, before he ended up at Telia and now SICS.
The SICS staff wish him very welcome!
Cor Baayen Award 1999
Mikael Degermark, researcher at Luleå University of Technology and SICS, has been awarded the Cor Baayen Award 1999.
The award, including a cheque for 5000 Euro and an award certificate, will be presented to Mikael Degermark at a ceremony in Amsterdam the 4th of November, during the ERCIM 10 year anniversary meeting.
It is the fifth time the Cor Baayen prize is awarded and the third time it goes to a SICS researcher. Former SICS winners are Christer Samuelsson (95) and Kristina Höök (-97).
The Cor Baayen Award
The annual Cor Baayen Award for the most promising researcher in computer science and applied mathematics was created in 1995 to honor the first ERCIM President. The Cor Baayen award is open to any young researcher having completed his/her PhD-thesis in one of the fourteen "ERCIM countries": Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the UK. For more information about the prize, see http://www.ercim.org/activity/cor-baayen.html |
The Award Winner
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| Mikael Degermark |
The winner of the award, Mikael Degermark, is today conducting research at the Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at Luleå University of Technology and the Computer and Network Architectures Laboratory at SICS. His research focus is Internet protocols. He is also one of the founders and a board member of a router and firewall company Effnet AB.
Mikael received his doctor´s degree at Luleå Luleå University of Technology in 1997. His research provided the basis for a new standard of the Internet Engineering Task Force, for IP Header Compression (IETF RFC 2507). He is also a CO-inventor of the Luleå-algorithm underpinning the Effnet's products. Mikael is continuing his work on wireless networks, creating new potential Internet standards in the area of mobile multimedia and ad-hoc networking, and on high-speed packet forwarding. He has also filed a number of patents in this area.
Effnet AB, which in two years has grown to +40 employees, and has offices in Luleå (HQ), Stockholm and Boston. Effnet AB went public on the Stockholm stock exchange in April 1999. The main products of Effnet are a series of routers and firewalls which were developed with the starting point in Degermarks published work on high-speed address lookups. The routers and firewalls have excellent price/performance and their algorithms are protected by several patents of which he is a co-inventor.
Spin-offs are paying off
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| Stig Larsson, Director of the Board of SICS (and former director-general of SJ) receives the check from Klas Orsvärn, Tacton AB. Peter Magnusson, Virtutech AB to the right. Photo: Peter Nerström. |
Close to half a million SEK were payed to SICS on the latest Board meeting September 9. It was the first delivery of the two companies Tacton AB and Virtutech AB, both spun off SICS last year.
One of the objects of SICS is to encourage spin off companies to carry the results of the research to the market. Tacton AB and Virtutech AB have both grown at a remarkable pace since they spun off from SICS last year.
Tacton Systems AB, with 15 employees, develops software to configure custom-built solutions out of standard components, mainly for e-commerce and sales force automation. Their largest customer is Ericsson where the system is used to support the sales of various kinds of telecom switches and peripherals.
Virtutech AB, with 10 employees and growing fast, develops simulators for advanced computer development. Two of their main customers are the R&D departments of Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard in the United States.
The payment to SICS (license fees determined by turnover) will be immediately reinvested in new research.
http://www.tacton.com/
http://www.virtutech.se/
Welcome to ERCIM 10th Anniversary Event
Symposium in Amsterdam, November 5th, 1999
Leaders from the fields of Information and Communication Technologies, manufacturing, and information content will give their vision of the future of European R&D.
The symposium is targeted towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT) users in European industry and leading people from the political community.
Presentations will be given by:
Pekka Soini (Vice President of NOKIA)
Gottfried Dutiné (Director of Alcatel/SEL Germany)
Jacques Louis Lions (former President of the French Academy of Sciences)
Roger Needham (Director of Microsoft Research Europe)
Gerard van Oortmerssen (President of ERCIM)
Alexander Rinnooy Kan (BoD ING Bank).
The role of Europe in the Future World Wide Web will be discussed with major players of the World Wide Web Consortium through a live videoconference with Boston.
Along with these presentations some of the major achievements of the ERCIM institutes will be demonstrated throughout the day.
If you are interested in joining the symposium on Nov 5 in Amsterdam, please don't hesitate to contact us at info@sics.se
The symposium is free of charge.
ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase cooperation with European industry. Leading research establishments from fourteen European countries are members of ERCIM
SICS is the Swedish representative of ERCIM.
http://www.ercim.org/10years/index.html |
