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Where to source hot technology in Scandinavia / Nordic Region

Discover the latest advancements in technology in Scandinavia/Nordic Region. Find out about research projects, market areas, and companies driving innovation in the ICT sector.

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Where to source hot technology in Scandinavia / Nordic Region

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  1. Where to source hot technology in Scandinavia / Nordic Region By Lill Kristiansen, senior research scientist Norsk Regnesentral (NR), Oslo lill.kristiansen@nr.no representing here also SAIL Port Northern Europe

  2. About myself, history • Dr.Scient in mathematical logic ‘93 • Research scientist at Telenor R&D ‘93-’98 • with IN technology (queues, speech menus,..) • with new distributed platforms for new services • Working in USA, @Bellcore on international project ‘96-’97 • System architect at Ericsson AS, Norway ‘98-’01 • With IP-telephony product, • mobility and services (incl. Web and Interactive voice) • standardisation • convergence (OSA; Parlay) • UMTS All-IP multimedia (SIP)

  3. About myself, today (from Nov.’01): • senior research scientist at NR working with • mobility and services • contexts, locations and presence (Instant messaging etc) • IP-telephony and Instant messaging combined • tailor user interface to user context • icons, web • speech menus or speech recognition • forget about *23*# • IP-zones, WLAN as access to new UMTS All-IP

  4. About NR • Applied research • Independent research foundation • Projects financed by domestic private companies, public sector, Norwegian Research Council, as well as EU and international companies • Established in 1952 • 90 research scientists • Main areas: • Information and communication technology (ICT) • Statistical-mathematical analysis and modelling

  5. Some examples of NR projects (ICT-sector) • With Nera • IP-telephony over Satellite • With confidential customers • security issues in Open Service Access • multimedia on handheld; -over low bandwidth (GSM data) • With Telenor Mobile • Case Veritas: Mobile employer (I.e. Mobile ship inspection) • EU:mOOnlight - development kit for computer games • Multimedia object-oriented shell for interactive games • Internal demos: • updated traffic information on handheld based on J2ME technology (‘Java on mobile device’)

  6. Competence Education Scientific areas Market areas Applications Informatics/ computer science Mathematics Statistics Image analysis Pattern recognition Statistical classification Video/speech analysis Remote sensing Industrial image analysis From the statistics side:

  7. SAIL Port Northern Europe • Nordic Centre of Excellence in SAIL Speech, Artificial Intelligence, and Language Technology • SPNE delivers business development services to start-ups, growing companies, and established corporations working in the high-tech ICT sector, with a primary focus on SAIL • Helping start-ups to develop projects and links to SPNE investor network • Investors get opportunities in a market segment that is open, and where there is not much activity (yet)

  8. Nordic market • High penetration of mobiles, PCs • Advanced users • Early adopters of new technology • Companies good in making new applications • Excellent test market for new applications • If you want to make a speech enabled application: • test it in this market • later: change the speech modules to a different language

  9. Tired of *23*4#? Tired of long voice menus? Answers: • Speech recognition • Of free speech, or easier: given a set of orders: • ‘Dial Lill’ • ‘Order blood test of NN, Test for vitamin K’ • Context sensitive services (telephony and more) • I prefer graphical user interface on PC • including handwriting recognition (e.g. PDA / UMTS) • unless when I am driving, then I prefer speech • Context also include: • location (in house, in the city, globally) • other user info: in meeting, deadline on report today, etc. • easier with SIP technology than with e.g. GSM

  10. + + + + ¤ + ¤ More about SIP and presence, buddy lists etc For mobile users or at a workplace with phones (and (e.g. hospital) maybe also PC) + nurse¤ patient

  11. About research and development • Timing is very important! • Find researchers and start-ups that understand timing • application must be good enough • I.e. not 100% optimal in an academic sense • application must meet its window of opportunities • Not all researchers understand this! • Combine • new technology from research • ability to deliver products

  12. Timing: a model New technology Ny teknologi Business goals utvinning Application areas Product(families) Produkt(er), (Applied) research (Product) development (Anvendt) (Produkt) produktfamilie(r) forskning utvikling Step 2: identify Step 1: identify Step 3: realise This model ensures that researchers understand the business goals, and the timing constraints

  13. Some names of new Nordic companies(from ICT technology) • Opera, Norway • ‘the best internet experience on any device’ (own words) • FAST, Norway • search engine ‘enabling information on demand (TM) ‘ • Birdstep, Norway • IP Zone, Intelligent Mobile IP Client • OZ, Iceland • buddy lists, Instant messaging, Wireless Village server • Hotsip, Sweden/Finland • ‘the global leader in SIP and Presence products’ (own words) • Not exhaustive list! With no guarantees!

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