1. Satish Srirama satish.srirama@ut.ee
IT in
Satish Srirama
Ome Srirama Jai Vinayaka
Ome Srirama Jai Vinayaka

2. 20 years of achievements No success without struggle All-new IT (PC)
1991
2002
2012

3. Cornerstone of Government IT - e-ID card and X-Road infrastructure
Banks – 98% of transactions over Internet
Tax forms – 5 minutes online
e-voting over Internet – first in the world
E-census 2012 – world record - 62%
National e-Health …
Voting in elections is possible from your home
Filing your income tax return in just five minutes
Signing a legally-binding contract over the Internet, from anywhere in the world, via your mobile phone
Entrepreneurs can register businesses in as little as 20 minutes
One can also check vital company, property and legal records online
You can register for fishing, pay parking fee etc. from your mobile

6. Estonian IT companies Expanding out
One-click mobile payments with mobile operator billing in 73 countries
LBS to 250M users…

7. Garage48, Startups, SME-s, .. #estonianmafia

8. The Baltic Startupsphere* http://eugene.lt/baltics/

9. The Baltic Startupsphere – Estonia

10. Biggest problem in Estonian IT?
Not enough people in IT!

12. Academic excellence since 1632

13. Why Tartu? Need for more qualified people Access to EU
380 years of academic and student traditions
Classical multi-disciplinary university
Quality education and world-renowned research
UT participates in 6 out of 7 national Centers of Excellence, 2008–2013
2011 THES World University Rankings: in top 400
Excellent student support system
Affordable accommodation costs and tuition fees
Size – 1000x difference
Why then Estonia?
A: Size! (easier to be a pioneer)
Smaller team sizes
More personal responsibilities
Skype, etc…
Big global ideas from these small teams
Need for more qualified people
Access to EU

14. International Relations
UT is a member of:
Coimbra Group of Universities (since 2003)
Utrecht Network (since 2006)
European University Association (EUA)
Baltic Sea Region University Network (BSRUN)
55 partner universities
600 Erasmus exchange agreements, ISEP
300 international conferences and seminars in Tartu each year
Appr. 600 incoming international students – incl. both degree-seeking and exchange students – from more than 30 countries.
Appr. 100 international faculty.

15. 600+ students (450 BSc, 200MSc, 40+ PhD)
3 International MSc Programmes
Software Engineering, Cyber Security, NordSecMob
All MSc+ education in English
30 teaching staff
~30 research staff
6 professors and areas
EU FP6, FP7 projects, International collaborations

16. Six main research areas - professors
Software Engineering
Business Process
Management
Marlon Dumas
Bioinformatics
Data Mining
Jaak Vilo
Distributed, Cloud, and Mobile Computing
Eero Vainikko
Programming Languages
Varmo Vene
Language Technology
Mare Koit
Cryptography
Dominique Unruh
Educational software, robotics, etc.

17. Some of the key players in Estonia

18. STACC Partners

19. STACC Research Tracks and Programs
Data Integration and Mining (DIM)
1.1 Web Analytics and Social Network Analysis
1.2 Biomedical data integration and mining
1.3 Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
Delfi, Logica, Quretec, Regio, Skype
ITK, Cybernetica, Quretec
Cybernetica, Swedbank, Quretec
Software and Services Engineering
2.1 Smart Internet Interfaces
2.2 Smart Services
2.3 Software Development Productivity
Delfi, Regio, Webmedia
Webmedia, Regio, Logica, Cybernetica
Webmedia, Logica, Cybernetica, KnowIT

20. Molecular Systems Biology 8:612
We need software and we need to understand data! Data everywhere – Bioinformatics and Data Mining hold great potential for future science and society.
Molecular Systems Biology 8:612

21. IT Masters Study Opportunities @ University of Tartu
English-taught Masters programs:
Masters of Software Engineering
Masters of Cyber-Security (with Tallinn Univ. of Technology)
Masters of Security and Mobile Computing (with Aalto Univ.)
English + Estonian-taught Masters in Informatics
Specializations in data mining, distributed systems, crypto, programming languages and Estonian language technology

22. What is (not) software engineering?
Systems Modeling,
UML/SDL,
Agent-Oriented Modelling
Business Process Management
Sw. Eng. Management, Sw. Eng. Paradigms
Sw. Quality & Standards
Mobile App. Development, Secure Programming,
R.T. Systems Programming
Requirements Engineering,
User Interface
Design
Sw. Quality & Standards,
Social Informatics
Systems Modeling
Enterprise Systems Integration
Software
Economics

23. Masters of Software Engineering Structure
Masters Thesis
Professional practice or
entrepreneurship project
(3-4 months)
Electives+free Module
(24 ECTS)
Specialty Module 1:
Enterprise Software
(4 courses, 24 ECTS)
Specialty Module 2:
Embedded Software
(4 courses, 24 ECTS)
Core Module
(4 courses, 24 ECTS)

24. Masters of Software Engineering
Software Economics – 6 ECTS
Systems Modelling – 6 ECTS
Requirements Analysis – 6 ECTS
Software Quality and Standards – 6 ECTS
Core
24 ECTS
Tartu
Tallinn
Foundations of embedded real-time systems
Real-time operating systems and programming
Real-time systems development with UML/SDL
Formal methods in embedded real-time systems
Embedded
Systems
24 ECTS
Enterprise System Integration
Business Process Management
Data Mining
Enterprise Software Seminar
Enterprise
Systems
24 ECTS

25. Flexible & Compact Schedule
Semester 1
Tartu: Tuesdays (core) and Thursdays (specialization)
Tallinn: Wednesdays (core) and Fridays (specialization)
Semester 2
Tartu: Tuesday and Thursday + choice of electives
Tallinn: Wednesday and Friday + choice of electives
Semester 3
Professional practice/entrepreneurship project
Choice of electives
Semester 4: Masters thesis

26. Truly International Experience
25 international students, 15 Estonian
International staff with experience in 20+ universities worldwide
International guest lecturers from industry and academia
Internship opportunities in international companies (e.g. Skype, Ericsson, Playtech, Nortal)

28. Anything else I need to know?
50 fully-funded study places
About 12 scholarships (funded by IT Academy)
Application deadline: April 2013

29.
Thank you