where to source hot technology in scandinavia / nordic region

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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’)

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CompetenceEducation

Scientific areasMarket areas

Applications

Informatics/computerscience

Mathematics

Statistics

Image analysis

Patternrecognition

Statisticalclassification

Video/speech analysis

Remotesensing

Industrialimage

analysis

From the statistics side:

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• 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)

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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

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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

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More about SIP and presence, buddy lists etc

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For mobile users or at a workplace with phones (and (e.g. hospital)maybe also PC) + nurse

¤ patient

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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

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Timing: a model

Produkt(er),produktfamilie(r)(Anvendt)

forskning

Ny teknologiutvinning

(Produkt)utvikling

Step 2: identify

Step 3: realise

Step 1: identify

(Applied) research

New technology

(Product) development

Application areas

This model ensures that researchers understand the business goals, and the timing constraints

Business goals

Product(families)

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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!