Ilkka Tuomi

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Ilkka Tuomi
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Born26 September 1958 (1958-09-26)
NationalityFinnish

Ilkka Tuomi (born 26 September 1958) is a Finnish computer scientist, noted for writings on the subject of the Internet.

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Works

Ilkka Tuomi has written books, including Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet [1] which develops theory of open innovation based on analysis of Internet-related innovations and open source, and Corporate Knowledge: Theory and Practice of Intelligent Organizations, [2] which develops theory of knowledge management.

Tuomi has written several articles in First Monday , an important peer reviewed journal on the Internet. The most famous of Tuomi's articles is probably The Lives and Death of Moore's Law , in which Tuomi states that Moore's law is an expression of technological determinism, used sloppily, and to a large extent not properly founded in empirical studies. This article has an associated response from Ray Kurzweil at: Exponential Growth:-An Illusion (Response to Ilkka Tuomi) and a comment on the response at: Response to Kurzweil.

Career

Ilkka Tuomi was a staff member of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. He has also been a Principal Scientist at the Nokia Research Center. He is Chief Scientist at Oy Meaning Processing Ltd., an independent research institute located in Finland.

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References

Ilkka Tuomi key papers at First Monday:

Notes

  1. Tuomi, Ilkka (2002). Networks of Innovation. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-925698-3. Archived from the original on 2007-11-05.
  2. Tuomi, Ilkka (1999). Corporate Knowledge: Theory and Practice of Intelligent Organizations. Metaxis. ISBN   978-951-98280-0-8.