Timo Honkela

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Timo Honkela at Helsinki Book Fair, 2017.

Timo Untamo Honkela (August 4, 1962 – May 9, 2020

School of Science and Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. He holds a PhD from Helsinki University of Technology
.

From 2014 until 2018 he held a fixed-term professorship at the University of Helsinki.

School of Science. He has presented his thoughts on his studies and work in the joint blog 375 Humanists.[3]

Timo Honkela conducted research on several areas related to knowledge engineering, cognitive modeling and natural language processing.

Honkela was born in Kalajoki. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a professor in the Aalto Media Lab. To the media Lab Honkela brought his expertise in Kohonen self-organising map (SOM) and worked closely with artist and designers around the topic.[1]

In 2001 Honkela collaborated with

Centre Georges Pompidou
, National Museum of Modern Art in Paris. The concept, created by Legrady, provided for visitors a possibility to scan their own objects to a database and then organise them by Kohonen Self-Organizing Map algorithm.

In 2017 Honkela published a book in Finnish. The book Rauhankone (English: Peace Machine) presents his idea of designing artificial intelligence and machine learning to serve humanity, in practice to help people to live in peace with each other.[4] He died in Helsinki.

Publications

  • Timo Honkela, Wlodzislaw Duch, Mark Girolami and Samuel Kaski (editors): Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, Springer, 2011.[5]
  • Jorma Laaksonen and Timo Honkela (editors): Advances in Self-Organizing Maps, Springer, 2011.[6]
  • Timo Honkela: Rauhankone. Gaudeamus, 2017.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Mustonen, Minna (2020-05-10). "Kalajoelta lähtöisin ollut emeritusprofessori, tekoälytutkija Timo Honkela (1962-2020) on kuollut". KPK (in Finnish). Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  2. ^ [1] Timo Honkela digitaalisten aineistojen professoriksi, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, 2013
  3. ^ 375 humanists. University of Helsinki. Retrieved 2020-07-16
  4. ^ a b "Timo Honkela: Rauhankone | Gaudeamus". Gaudeamus (in Finnish). 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  5. ISBN 978-3-642-21735-7
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  6. S2CID 8040694
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