SONERA - UKRAINE
facts and future of cooperation
(case of Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics)
Vagan Terziyan
University of Jyväskylä
May 2004
http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/Sonera-Ukraine.ppt
Finland and Ukraine
University of Jyväskylä
Finland
State Technical University
of Radioelectronics
Kharkov
Ukraine
Ukraine
Interesting facts
about Ukrainians
Going to compete with Ukrainians?
Try these two first…
The strongest man in the world
The smartest man in the world
Vitali has also a
Doctoral Degree
by the way
The Ukrainian Giant, Vitali Klitschko
has stopped South African Corrie
Sanders in the eighth round, winning the
vacant WBC Heavyweight (most prestige
boxing title) Saturday, 24 April 2004.
Ruslan Ponomaryov, 18, became the
new chess champion of the world (FIDE).
Mr. Ponomaryov is the first Ukrainian and
the youngest player ever to capture the
world title (which is still in his hands).
… you probably think that this one
would be easier…
Another one strongest man in the world
Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian
weight lifter (exceptionally heavy,
weighing 165 kg) quit professional sports in
the middle of the 1970s, after becoming
Olympic weight lifting champion in 1964
(Tokyo) and 1968 (Mexico City), four-time
world champion, two-time European
champion, eight-time champion of the
Soviet Union and a holder of 19 world
records.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (the film star and governor of
California) and Zhabotinsky have a longstanding friendship.
The actor has said that Zhabotinsky, who was his idol, in the
1960s changed his life…
… or maybe try this Ukrainian…
(hopefully we should not remind who is he)
Sergey Bubka
… OK if the previous seem
difficult, then try a smaller one…
The youngest grandmaster in the world
The twelve year old Ukrainian chess
player Sergey Karyakin in August,
2002, became and remains still the
youngest grandmaster in history.
Refreshing memories
Player
Final GM norm at
Bobby Fischer
15 years, 6 months, 1 day
Judit Polgar
15 years, 4 months, 28 days
Peter Leko
14 years, 4 months, 22 days
Etienne Bacrot
14 years, 2 months, 0 days
Ruslan Ponomaryov
14 years, 0 months, 17 days
Teimour Radjabov
14 years, 0 months, 14 days
Bu Xiangzhi
13 years, 10 months, 13 days
Sergey Karjakin
12 years, 7 months, 0 days
Ukraine is not an Ice Hockey Country
We lose sometimes but we will overcome some day
!
Do you know that
Ukrainian Bill Mosienko
(hockey player for
Chicago Black Hawks)
still holds the record for
the fastest three goals
in the history of the NHL.
He scored three goals
in 21 seconds, March
23, 1952, against the NY
Rangers …
26 April 2004, World Championship, Ostrava,
Finland – Ukraine 5 : 1
Just for your information: Wayne Gretzky, born 1961 has Ukrainian roots. He is
Ranked #1 on the list of the top 50 hockey players of all time (according to a
TOP 50 list compiled in 1998 by The Hockey News). He holds many of the most
important NHL records. By the way, Ukrainian roots have also Terry Sawchuk
(Ranked #9 ) and Mike Bossy (Ranked #20 ) from that list …
Andriy Shevchenko – the best
European Football Player
Not only men…
The best European Singer
16 May 2004 UKRAINE WINS
EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2004
With 280 points, Ukraine won the 49th
Eurovision Song Contest. Thanks to
Ruslana and her song Wild dances, the
50th edition of the event will take place in
Kiev, Ukraine.
"All of us are making a positive image of
Ukraine. I want my country to open up
before you with friendship and hospitality,"
an ecstatic Ruslana said after the show.
…and not only sing…
The most “decorated” Olympian
During her international career that
spanned three Olympiads and 12 years,
Ukrainian gymnast Larisa Latynina
won a record 18 medals in Olympic
competition. This total makes her the
most decorated Olympian to date in
any sport.
Interesting fact:
In 1958, at the world championships,
Latynina got gold on every event except
vault (silver) and remarkably she
competed at these world championships
while pregnant with her daughter Tanya,
who was born 10 days before Latynina's
24th birthday.
Ukrainian women
can do everything…
Golda Meir (1898-1978) famous
Israeli Prime-Minister was Ukrainian
“If Greatness is given a name, it
surely is Golda Meir” (WIC)
Moshe Sharett. Second Prime Minister of Israel.
1954-55. Born 1894 in Kherson (Ukraine).
Levi Eshkol. 1895-1969. Prime Minister of Israel
1963-1969. Born in Oratovo (near Kyiv, Ukraine).
Yulia Timoshenko – the heart of “Orange
Revolution”, world’s most charming politician,
… – should we tell more?!
Milla Jovovich – one of the best
movie stars – is Ukrainian
Not bad to know…
Ukrainian Sergey Korolev
(1907-1966) - the chief designer
of early Soviet rockets and
Inventor of the Sputnik, the first
satellite sent into space.
“The timing of the Sputnik launch was
motivated by a single reasoning: Korolev's
drive to preempt a U.S. satellite launch
attempt… The political and cultural shock
bequeathed by Sputnik set events in motion
that eventually gave rise to Apollo, perhaps
the central artifact of the so-called 'space
race' of the Cold War. … But as we begin to
dig deeper into the origins of the space race,
it is clear that … fortunately for the Soviet
Union, it was a race in which one of the
participants, the United States, did not even
know it was running until it was too late”.
(from NASA)
Not bad to know…
After the success of his flying
boats and amphibians, Igor
Sikorsky in 1931 patented a
design with the now-familiar
helicopter layout - a single
large main rotor and small
anti-torque tail rotor.
Ukrainian Igor Sikorsky inventor of a helicopter
Not bad to know…
Ivan Pulyui (born February 2, 1845) was a Ukrainian physicist, inventor and patriot
who has been championed as an early developer of the use of X-rays for medical
imaging. His contributions were largely neglected until the end of the 20th century.
Pulyui, as a result of experiments into what he called cold light, is reputed to have
developed an X-ray emitting device as early as 1881. Pulyui reputedly first
demonstrated an X-ray photograph of a 13-year-old boy's broken arm and an X-ray
photograph of his daughter's hand with a pin lying under it. The device became
known as the Pulyui lamp and was mass-produced for a period. Reputedly, Pulyui
personally presented one to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen who went on to be credited as
the major developer of the technology. Pulyui published his results in a scientific
paper, Luminous Electrical Matter and the Fourth State of Matter in the Notes of the
Austrian Imperial Academy of Sciences (1880-1883), but expressed his ideas in an
obscure manner using obsolete terminology. Pulyui did gain some recognition when
the work was translated and published as a book by the Royal Society in the UK.
[from Wikipedia]
Ukrainian Ivan Pulyui actual inventor of X-Rays
"World history has never been just to certain individuals
or certain nations. Small nations and their achievements
are often neglected while the accomplishments of large
nations are at times exaggerated." [Slavko Bokshan, a Serbian
scientist who worked in the same department as Pulyui and Roentgen].
Not bad to know…
Leonard Kleinrock's parents came to America from the
Ukraine. His family had little money. Leonard had to
work during the day and went to college at night. We
remember Leonard Kleinrock today because he sent the
first successful email message. He started a new way
of communicating. One day in 1964, he keyboarded a
message that he could send electronically, or through
wires, to another computer where a friend of his could
open the message and read what Leonard had written.
Ukrainian Leonard
Kleinrock
- inventor of
the Internet
UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock demonstrates how
the first Internet communication was made.
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock is known as the Inventor of the
Internet Technology, having created the basic
principles of packet switching, the technology
underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at
MIT. This was a decade before the birth of the Internet
which occurred when his Host computer at UCLA
became the first node of the Internet in September 1969.
He wrote the first paper and published the first book on
the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first
message ever to pass over the Internet. He was listed by
the Los Angeles Times in 1999 as among the `50 People
Who Most Influenced Business This Century'.
Not bad to know…
Ukrainian Jacob
Rabinow
- inventor of
the first text scanner
Jacob Rabinow (1910-1999) was born in Kharkov,
Ukraine. His family moved to New York City in
1921, where Rabinow received a Bachelors
Degree in Engineering and a Masters Degree in
Electrical Engineering from City College of New
York. He joined the National Bureau of Standards
in 1938, working on a variety of ordnance devices
throughout World War II and eventually becoming
Chief, Electro-Mechanical Ordnance Division. He
left NBS in 1954 to create two engineering
companies; the first was merged with Control Data
Corporation in 1964, and the second was sold to
Harmon Kardon Corporation in 1972.
In 1972, Rabinow rejoined NBS as Chief Research
Engineer. Retiring in 1975, he returned once again
to consult for NBS in the field of energy related
inventions. Rabinow held 230 U.S. patents.
Not bad to know…
Ukrainian George
Gamov
- one of the
inventors of the Big Bang
Theory
Not bad to know…
An-22 Antheus, Nato: Cock
An-124 Ruslan, Nato: Condor
It is not widely realized that
the largest airplanes in
the world come from
Ukraine. The Antonov
Design Bureau located in
Kiev, Ukraine has produced a
series of airplanes able to
claim the title of biggest
airplane in the world.
An-225 Mriya, Nato: Cossack
Not bad to know…
Lev Landau was appointed as head
of the Theory Division of the Ukrainian
Technical Institute in Kharkov and he
was also appointed to the chair of
theoretical physics at the Kharkov
Institute of Mechanical Engineering.
He moved to Kharkov to take up these
posts, receiving a doctorate in Physical
and Mathematical Sciences in 1934.
One of his first projects in Kharkov was
to organize an international conference
on theoretical physics, and Niels Bohr
attended the meeting
Not bad to know…
Famous Ukrainian Mathematicians
Sergi Bernstein
Brodetsky
Bunyakovsky
Chebotaryov
Drinfeld
Gelfand
Krawtchouk
Krein
Kulik
Levytsky
Lifshitz
Linnik
Livsic
Lukasiewicz
Marchenko
Mises
Mostowski
Mytropolshy
Naimark
Nikodym
Oleinik
Ostrogradski
Ostrowski
Petryshyn
Pfeiffer
Potapov
Rosanes
Samoilenko
Schatten
Schauder
Sharkovsky
Shatunovsky
Shtokalo
Sleszynski
Ulam
Urysohn
Vashchenko
Voronoy
Yushkevich
Ukrainians from Kharkov
National University of
Radioelectronics in Jyvaskyla
City of Kharkov
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Kharkov (Kharkiv), the second largest and the most
significant industrial, scientific and cultural centre of Ukraine,
is situated in the Northeast part of the country. Among the
cites of the former USSR Kharkov is inferior only to Moscow
and St.Petersburg.
284 large industrial enterprises, 6 academic and about 200
branch institutes function in the city. 24 higher educational
institutions - 6 academies, 10 universities and 8 institutions train specialists in different branches of knowledge.
City of Kharkov
Kharkov - Key Research Centre
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Beginning of space exploration program and great control systems for it,
fantastic results in genetic research,
excellent military equipment (e.g. the legendary T-34, the best tank of World
War II was created in Kharkov as well as the first three dimensional radiolocator),
main research schools and results in cryogenic medicine,
microbiology studies pioneered by the Nobel Prize winner - Ilia Mechnikov
who discovered the mechanism of immunity,
the beginning of nuclear era took place here in 1932 with the splitting of the
nucleus at Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute,
… and much much more.
Kharkov National University of
Radioelectronics (KNURE)
Kharkov National University
of Radioelectronics
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Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics trains
about 7000 students conferring Degrees of Bachelor,
Specialist, Master, Candidate (Ph.D.) and Doctor of
Science.
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The teaching staff consists of more than 700 teachers,
88 doctors of science, professors, and more then 400
candidates of science(Ph.D.), assistant professors are
among them.
Experience of International
Cooperation of KNURE
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TEMPUS Compact Project (2000-2001)
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Eastern-European Branch of IEEE
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International Applied Radioelectronics Academy
works at KNURE
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Agreement (in force) with “ALDEC the Source for EDA
Solutions” (USA) about cooperation in software and
hardware development
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Annual holding of 4 International Conferences
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Teaching of foreign students in English
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Active cooperation with foreign partners – universities
of United Kingdom, Finland, USA, France, Germany,
Serbia and Montenegro, China, etc.
International Initiatives of
KNURE Rector M. Bondarenko
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Long-term productive cooperation with
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Agreement on cooperation between KNURE
and University of Belgrade
A number of agreements on teaching of
Chinese students
Project with Northampton College (USA)
and National Microelectronics Centre in
USA
Cooperation with “ALDEC the Source for
EDA Solutions” (USA)
Vision of KNURE:
University with …
… high-quality
education
Raising the
level of
administrative
staff skills
… high
prestige
New
forms and
methods
of study
… wide
national
contacts
Orientation
toward
labour
market
… wide
international
contacts
Strategies
New
of integration
international into European
projects
system of
education
TEMPUS projects:
New Framework for
M.Sc. Thesis Work
Enabling European Credits
by Correspondence
Ontology-Based
International Degree
Recognition
KNURE Participation in OntoWeb II
Goal of OntoWeb II:
To bring together researchers and industrials coming
from research and applications areas, promoting
interdisciplinary work and strengthening the
European influence on Semantic Web standardization
efforts (part 3 of presentation)
Network Partners:
143 universities and industry partners (mostly from Europe)
Ukraine is presented only by KNURE and Zaporozhye State
University
KNURE takes part in formalization of educational resources
AI Department:
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20 teachers, 10 researchers
15 Doctors, 8 Professors
2 research laboratories
Basic Specialty (BSc, MSc): Intelligent Decision Support
Systems with specializations:
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Basic Facts
Computational Intelligence and Internet Technologies (Kharkov) about 50 %;
Mobile Computing (Jyvaskyla) about 40 %;
Artificial Intelligence (Amsterdam) about 10 %.
Licence for 60 Specialists and Masters annually
Postgradute program
Submitted Projects to EU Program
TEMPUS/TACIS
European Training Foundation
Program TEMPUS/TACIS
Applied: 15 December 2003
Funding period:
September 2004 – August 2006
Priority: University Management
“Enabling European Credits by Correspondence“
“Ontology-Based International Degree Recognition"
Joint Master Programs
Partners of KNURE:
University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
60 students from KNURE during 2000-2004
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
7 students from KNURE
Students get 2 Master Diplomas:
Ukrainian (Intelligent Decision Support Systems) and
[ Finnish (Mobile Computing) or Dutch (Artificial Intelligence) ]
- Cooperative curricula design and credit transfer
- Advanced courses and exchange of teachers
- Remarkable success of Ukrainian students abroad
Joint Ms. Program: Results 2000-2002
Academic
year
Amount
of
students
Graduation
so far
2000 2001
22
100 %
2001 2002
15
93 %
Quality of
graduation
Employment
Awards
Laudatur – 9 %
Eximia – 9 %
Magna – 32 %
In Finland – 55 %
In Ukraine – 14 %
In EU – 4 %
Doctoral studies in
Finland – 27 %
Best Master Thesis
2002 by Jyväskylän
Teknillinen Seura
(Andrey Bazhyna)
Laudatur – 8 %
Eximia – 14 %
Magna – 64 %
In Finland – 71 %
Doctoral studies in
Finland – 29 %
Rector’s Grant for
Doctoral studies
(Daniil Ivanov)
Success of Ukrainian Students (Mobile Computing Line)
among others in University of Jyvaskyla
Number of foreign students successfully graduated as Masters from
University of Jyvaskyla (2001-2002)
years
UA
other
countries
Reaction of
Finnish Media
to Ukrainian
Students’
Success
Scientific Cooperation
(University of Jyvaskyla Case)
good basis for cooperation in education
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12 years of active cooperation
Tens of research grants (CIMO, Academy,
COMAS, etc.) got by Ukrainian Researchers
Applying and collaborative working within joint
projects (TEKES, TEMPUS, Academy, etc.)
More than 100 international research papers
published by or in cooperation with Ukrainians
3 Ph.D., 3 Ph.Lic and about 50 Master Theses
made by Ukrainians in Jyvaskyla University
First negotiations with
“Sonera” (Telecom Finland)
Vagan Terziyan,
KNURE
Lauri Jamsanen,
“Sonera”
Elina Laiho-Logren,
University of Jyvaskyla
Distance Education
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After visits to Sonera and discussions with
Sonera experts in 1998 the Virtual and
Distance learning Laboratory has been
created in KNURE.
The first pilot prototype of East-Ukrainian
Virtual University has been designed in the
laboratory
Industrial Ontologies Group
Contact:
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e-mail: vagan@it.jyu.fi
Phone: +358 14 260 4618
URL: http://www.cs.jyu.fi/ai/OntoGroup
InBCT Tekes Project:
“Semantic Search Facilitator”
SemanticSearchFacilitator:
Search engines
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Local search
…
? search
DB search
Web search
is Semantic Interface
for search mechanism,
which use combination
and integration of the
set of other existing
search engines. This
interface
provides
additional
semantic
enhancement
and
filtering of a complex
information retrieval.
Software
Interface
SemanticSearchFacilitator
User
Interface
Tekes Project SmartResource: “Proactive
Self-Maintained Resources in Semantic Web”
Device
Service
Human
Global Semantic Web-enabled asset management
framework improves maintenance of industrial
devices by utilizing heterogeneous and
interoperable Web resources, maintenance
services and human experts
Future application domains:
Health Care based on Semantic Web of Medical
Web Services
Future application domains:
Telemedicine:Wellness
Health Maintenance without barriers
Anytime and Anywhere
“Doctor/Expert”
“Doctor/Expert”
“Human/device”
“Service”
“Service”
Symptom
data
Local Alarm System
Human/device Adapter
“Service”
Research and Training Foundation of
TeliaSonera Finland 2004
Three ukrainian IT- researchers have been awarded
grants by TeliaSonera (Finland, 28.04.2004)
Natalya German (Kohvakko)
Dmytro Zhovtobryukh
Oleksiy Khriyenko
Summary
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Ukrainian teachers, students and researchers
working in University of Jyväskylä have been
successfully adapted already to Finnish
environment and have proven their qualification
They might be an important resource, which
TeliaSonera can use to strengthen cooperation
with Ukraine, promote further research and
development cooperation with Ukrainians in
Finland and start business activities at Ukrainian
market mediated by Finnish Ukrainians
“I am Ukrainian”