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III. Business and projects with customers within
Education & Research Computing
and
Public Private Partnership (PPP) for
ICT Skills Capacity Building / ICT Competency Building

In partnerships with schools, higher education, industry,
and international development cooperation agencies,
we drive joint initiatives to allow for students, teachers and researchers
to explore the future in dedicated environments/centers of excellence
with focus on a specific technology, industry, or application.

2013-03-06:

Recruiting Day@Oracle

Oracle hires junior developers, master thesis students, and summer interns to
Oracle's global development center for Java in Stockholm.




2013:

Oracle - OpenHouse@Oracle - Meeting point for schools and ICT industry;
open house at Oracle for students and teachers - Once a quarter.




2012:

2012-03-19: OpenHouse@Oracle
- Nynäshamns gymnasium och Team Obelix/Linköpings universitet




2011:

2011-08-15: OpenHouse@Oracle
- Stockholm University, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Kista




2011-08-14: OpenHouse@Oracle
- Royal Institute of Technology,
School of Information and Communication Technology, Kista




2011-04-15: OpenHouse@Oracle
- Forsmarks skola; Rudbeckskolan, Sollentuna;
- Thorildsplans gymnasium; Stockholm




2011-03-11: OpenHouse@Oracle
- Bessermergymnasiet, Sandviken

Previous Engagements - Samples:

Technology Sharing Projects - Collaborative Reseach Projects -
- Board of Directors Positions - Capacity Building Projects




2007-2009: Sun Campus Ambassador Programme

Mentoring of 60 students ambassadors in Central & Northern Europe.




2007, 2008: StartUp Day - Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship

Keynote: David Axmark, Co-Founder MySQL




2006: eLearning Capacities in Africa

1st International Conference on ICT for
Development, Education and Training, UNCC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia




2005-2009: Ricoh Europe & Sun Java™ Developer Challenge

Innovating Technology - EMEA Student Java Programming Contest




2005: UN & ITU - World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Tunis, Tunisia




2004, 2006, 2008: Excitera Swedish Game Awards (SGA)




2006: Excitera Innovation Challenge




2009: Excitera SGA/Mobile Cup, JavaFX Category




2002-2008: Sun @ EUNIS/European University Information Systems Annual Congress




2002: Sun Tech Days @ KTH with James Gosling,
"The Father" of the Java programming language.




2002: Sun Center of Excellence in High Performance Computing Architecture
@ Uppsala University, Dept. of Information Technology




2000-2007: Sun Application Tuning Seminars
at leading universities and research institutions in Central & Northern Europe




2000-2005: Vinnova (NUTEK) Center of Excellence:
Parallel and Scientific Computing Institute (PSCI@KTH and Uppsala University)




1999: Sun Tech Days @ Uppsala University with Greg Papadopolous, CTO of Sun Microsystems.




1999-2001: Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology),
Industry Steering Group for a new IT-University in Kista




1997-2004: TelecomCity FutureLand, Karlskrona, Software Reuse Café
- Student Java Programming Contests on Mobile Applications:

• 1997-1998: Winning student team from KTH
  are the creators of the Java Engine JRockit,
  now a key product at Oracle Corporation.


• 1999-2000: Winning student team from LiU
  are the creators of the Orion Application Server.
  Oracle Corporation acquired license to the source of Orion in 2001,
  and developed it as Oracle Application Server Containers for Java EE (OC4J).





1996-2000: Seminar series on Image Guided Therapy, Dr. Ron Kikinis

In partnership with Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Seminar tours to leading university hospitals/medical schools in Northern Europe;
among them:

• Gothenburg: Sahlgrenska University Hospital,


• Lund: Lund University Hospital,


• Linköping: Linköping University Hospital,


• Linköping University/Computer Vision Lab


• Lund: Lund University Hospital,


• Stockholm: The Karolinska Hospital & The Karolinska Institute,


• Stockholm: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH/PDC),


• Uppsala: Akademiska sjukhuset / The Uppsala University Hospital,


• Uppsala: Uppsala University, ESCA-LASER Lab,
  hosted by Nobel Laureate Prof. Kai Siegbahn,


• Örebro: National Radiology Conference 1998,


• Copenhagen: Rigshospitalet,


• Helsinki: Helsinki University


• Helsinki: Helsinki Central Hospital,
  seminar hosted by GE Medical Systems & Instrumed,


• Oslo: Rikshospitalet/National Hospital





1995-2002: Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Industry Steering Group




1995-2008: Numerous Collaborative Research projects undertaken between
Sun Engineering / Sun Labs and leading universities in Europe and elsewhere;
projects that in several cases contributed to the patent portfolio of Sun Microsystems Inc.




1995-2000: Facilitated mirroring of
The Nobel Prize Announcement on SunSITE systems world-wide.
Project delivered in collaboration with The Nobel Prize Foundation.




1993-2004: SunSITE (Sun Software, Information & Technology Exchange):

• Established and deployed SunSITE in Northern Europe.

SunSITE:
A network of Internet servers hosted by leading universities worldwide
and providing archives of information, software and other
publicly available resources.




1993-2004: Deployment of numerous
Sun Technology Centers, Sun Java Centers and Sun SITE Centers
in Europe and elsewhere.




1984-2009: Sun Microsystems - Strategic Programs for Education & Research
(Since 2010 part of Oracle Academy)




1984-2009: Sun Microsystems - OpenHouse@Sun
- Meeting point for schools and ICT industry;
open house at Sun for students and teachers

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