Information Technology Manager and
Head of the Computing Facilities Group
Department of Computer Science ·
Faculty of Science ·
University of Helsinki · Finland
Some interesting events during my career include: design and implementation of the minicomputer operating system MOPO with my late friend Ilkka Haikala; the introduction Internet to Finland in 1987–1988 and operating one of the first DNS name servers in Finland (which continued to function as root server for FI domain for over 20 years); acquisition of our first larger departmental server, Ethernet, and an archipelago of SUN workstations in 1988, “supervision” and grading of Linus Torvalds's master's thesis (LINUX - A PORTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM) in 1996; transition from the SunOS UNIX environment to Linux and the introduction of three departmental Linux distributions (CSL1, CSL2, and CUBBLI) during the years 1995–2008; our “Netbook for every New Student” project since 2008; and the acquisition and deployment of the departmental super computer cluster UKKO in 2009–2010.
I am married to Lea Kutvonen and we have one daughter.
Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Open Distributed Processing, Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, Parallel Programming, Multi-core Architectures, Open Standards, Linux, Unix, IT Service Management, Security Management, IT Management, Gadgets, IT Infrastructure, Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, Open Source.
— Last edited February 2012 —