Nokia collaborates with MIT for a joint lab

Nokia and MIT have now officially joined hands to setup a joint research effort. The two organizations are aiming to develop technology that will arrive on the mass market in five to 10 years.

Bob Iannucci, head of Nokia Research Center said in a statement on their plans: “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.”

They would be working with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). At the launch ceremony of this lab, they pointed to its Project Simone (Spoken Interaction for Mobile Networked Ecosystems) as an important joint effort.

This project would see 20 researchers from Nokia working with 20 from MIT and they would be managed by a joint steering committee.