Jarkko Oikarinen
Jarkko Oikarinen | |
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| Born | August 16, 1967 Internet Relay Chat |
Jarkko Oikarinen (born 16 August 1967) is a
Internet Relay Chat (IRC), where he is known as WiZ.[1]
Biography and career
Oikarinen was born in
Dvorak Award for Personal Achievement—Outstanding Global Interactive Personal Communications System;[4] in 2005, the Millennium Technology Prize Foundation, a Finnish public-private partnership, honored him with one of three Special Recognition Awards.[5]
He started working for medical image processing in 1990 in
computed axial tomography.[7][3] Once finishing his PhD, he has held the positions of Chief Software Architect of Add2Phone Oy (Helsinki, Finland), Head of R&D in Capricode (Oulu, Finland) and General Manager in Nokia.[3]
He is also partner and chief software architect at an electronic games developer called Numeric Garden (Espoo, Finland).
Oikarinen and his wife, Kaija-Leena, were married in 1996 and have three children: Kasper, Matleena, and Marjaana.[3]
Oikarinen has been working for
Stockholm, Sweden. [3]
Sources
- ^ "A Decade of IRC". undernet.org. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- ^ a b "IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen". IRC.org. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- ^ a b c d e f Oikarinen, Jarkko. "Curriculum Vitae: Jarkko Oikarinen" (PDF). personal homepage. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
- ^ "4. Personal Achievement – Outstanding Global Interactive Personal Communications System". 1997 Dvorak Award Winners. Rancho Cucamonga California. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- ^ "Three People-centred WWW Projects in Oulu Win Special Recognition Awards". Millennium Technology Prize Foundation. March 17, 2005. Archived from the original on March 17, 2005.
- ^ "neurosurgical workstation".
- ^ Oikarinen, Jarkko. "Research". personal homepage. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
