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

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

Works

Ilkka Tuomi has written books, including ''Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet'' which develops theory of

open innovation Open innovation is a term used to promote an information age mindset toward innovation that runs counter to the secrecy and silo mentality of traditional corporate research labs. The benefits and driving forces behind increased openness have bee ...

based on analysis of Internet-related innovations and open source, and ''Corporate Knowledge: Theory and Practice of Intelligent Organizations'', which develops theory of

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieve organisational objectives by making ...

. Tuomi has written several articles in ''

First Monday ''First Monday'' is an American legal drama television series which aired on CBS during the midseason replacement from January 15 to May 3, 2002. The series centered on the U.S. Supreme Court. Like another 2002 series, '' The Court'', it was i ...

'', an important

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ed journal on the

. 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 Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency, while determining the development of the social structure and cultural values. The term is b ...

, 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 Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

References

Ilkka Tuomi key papers at First Monday: * Ilkka Tuomi
The Lives and Death of Moore's Law
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'', volume 7, number 11 (November 2002) * Ilkka Tuomi
Internet, Innovation, and Open Source: Actors in the Network
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'', volume 6, number 1 (January 2001) * Ilkka Tuomi
Evolution of the Linux Credits File: Methodological Challenges and Reference Data for Open Source Research
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'', volume 9, number 6 (June 2004) * Ilkka Tuomi
Economic Productivity in the Knowledge Society: A Critical Review of Productivity Theory and the Impacts of ICT
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'', volume 9, number 7 (July 2004)

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Further information about Ilkka Tuomi
From the website of Oy Meaning Processing Ltd. 1958 births Living people Finnish computer scientists {{Finland-writer-stub