Nokia, MIT open joint research lab
Nokia and MIT officially opened a joint research effort Friday and released sketches on projects they will jointly develop.
"Our mission is to explore and develop technologies that will be available in the marketplace in five to ten years - not just novelties, but technologies that will see mass market demand from consumers and enterprises," said Bob Iannucci, head of Nokia Research Center, in a statement.
At MIT, the Nokia unit is teaming up with the university's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Rodney Brooks, director of CSAIL said he is confident that the joint research will eventually be deployed throughout the world. Nokia, which chiefly promotes the European-developed GSM mobile phone standard, is the leading handset supplier boasting a worldwide market share of more than 30 percent. The Finland-based firm is also a major provider of mobile telephony infrastructure.