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NODES/KOPS Glögi 2013
On Monday the 16th of December 2013, NODES research group organized the traditional NODES/KOPS-glögi before the Christmas holiday. (Glögi translates to 'mulled wine', and is a popular red spicy drink enjoyed around Christmas time.)
At the beginning of the event, Professor Sasu Tarkoma, who is leading the NODES group and the networking and services line, gave a short overview of the history and the glögi tradition.
"In the early days during the 1980s the operating systems teaching and research expanded to cover also data communications. The research group at the time was called KOPS that is a combination of the Finnish word for Operating Systems 'Käyttöjärjestelmät' and the Swedish equivalent 'Operativsystem'. Distributed systems was a very young field at the time and much of the early work was done under operating systems. Then in late 1994 the NODES research group was formed by professors Timo Alanko, Kimmo Raatikainen and Martti Tienari focusing on data communications. The initial scope of the group includes concurrency, telecommunication software, and distributed systems. The Annual Report of the Department in 2000 mentions the group for the first time and lists the following topics: distributed systems, nomadic computing, formal methods, operating system enhancements. These topics were later between 2000 and 2005 extended to cover wireless communications, open distributed systems, and security-privacy-trust.
Since 2005, new professors have been appointed and at the moment we have three full professors in the group, namely Jussi Kangasharju, Giulio Jacucci, and Sasu Tarkoma. Our focus has not radically changed, but it has evolved and includes now also interactive systems and system-level security."
Despite all the structural reorganisations at the department, the tradition of NODES/KOPS-glögi has survived and still continues.
Since there are a number of talks and posters presented at the glögi event this year, we share some photos here (contributed by our editor Ella):
Prof. Sasu Tarkoma gave a presentation of the history of the Nodes group and some current guidelines, visions and critical numbers.
A lot of audience here! A single photo just can't include everyone.
Dr. Sini Ruohomaa presented how we could support Santa's little helpers in security issues.
PhD student Eemil Lagerspetz, the junior researcher of the year in 2013, presented Carat poster in the poster session with glögi. (nice costume, btw, a comment from the editor Aaron ;)
There were a lot of interesting posters and discussions in the poster session! More photos here:
References:
The First Ten Years of the NODES Group edited by Professor Kimmo Raatikainen, 2005
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/docs/NodesTenYearsEversion.pdf
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Sini is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the CS department, currently working on usable security in the Secure Systems group.
Aaron is doing his PhD in the NODES group at the CS department. His research focuses on mobile computing and energy efficient design for multi-interfaced mobile devices.
Ella is a PhD student in the Nodes group. She is interested in e.g. distributed algorithms, real-life data mining, clouds and ubiquitous computing.
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