The University Graduate Center (UNIK) is a research foundation at
Kjeller in Norway. UNIK has four focus areas
Network, Information Security and Signalprocessing for Communication
* Electronics and Photonics
* Cybernetics and Industrial Mathematics
* Energy and the Environment
UNIK was founded in 1987 in order to foster the co-operation between the research institutes at Kjeller and to support master and PhD education. UNIK has a supplementary education as compared to the University of Oslo
UiO UIO may refer to:
* University of Oslo
* Mariscal Sucre International Airport, in Quito, Ecuador
** Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport
Mariscal Sucre International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Sucre) was the main inter ...
and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
NTNU, which is based on the collaboration with the Research Institutes at Kjeller. The core founding members were FFI, IFE, Telenor R&I, and UiO. NTNU joined in 1995. Focus of UNIK is towards applications, thus the strong relation to the Institutes at Kjeller and other relevant industry.
UNIK's main cooperation partner today is FFI. Telenor R&I, Kongsberg Defense Communications, Thales and Thrane Norway support education at UNIK through their staff members. In 2007 UNIK started together with IFE and the University College of Akershus (HiAk) a study within Energi and Environment.
UNIKis co-located with
NORSAR
NORSAR or Norwegian Seismic Array was established in 1968 as part of the Norwegian- US agreement for the detection of earthquakes and nuclear explosions.
Description
Located at Kjeller, north of Oslo, NORSAR runs and maintains seismic arrays i ...
at
Kjeller close to
Lillestrøm
Lillestrøm is a municipality in Viken county. It is located in the traditional district of Romerike. With a population of 85,757 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated municipality in Viken. It was founded on 1 January 2020 as a merger be ...
, 25 km east of
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
. The building hosts the first termination of the
ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical fou ...
in Europe, back in 1973.
The start of the Internet in Europe and the mobile phone development is closely related to people teaching at UNIK:
*
Pål Spilling
Pål Spilling (October 29, 1934 – January 16, 2018) was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and professor at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller in Norway.
He obtained his cand.real. degree in physics from the University of ...
, who brought the Internet to Europe
*
Torleiv Maseng
Torleiv Maseng (born 1946) is a prominent Norwegian engineer, who made some contribution to the Global System for Mobile Communications project. His work included the standard use of channel estimation and the combination of equalization, error c ...
, who contributed to the development of
GSM
* Øivind Kure, who influenced the research directions of
Telenor
Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...
as being research director and who is a partner in the Q2S center of excellency at
NTNU
UNIK's 25 anniversary
UNIK celebrated 25 years of higher academic education on Master and Phd level on 22. March 201
Vinton Cerf contributed with a video note mentioning the contribution of the people at Kjeller and UNIK in extending the ARPANET outside of the US.
External links
UNIKWiki on Research in Wireless CommunicationsNORSAR and the Internet
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Universities and colleges in Norway