Finnish Engineering Award presented to Sampo Karjalainen and Aapo Kyrölä

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Finnish Engineering Award presented to Sampo Karjalainen and Aapo Kyrölä - the creators of the virtual Habbo Hotel gaming community

Sampo Karjalainen and Aapo Kyrölä, the creators of the virtual Habbo Hotel gaming community, have been awarded this year's Finnish Engineering Award this year. The Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers, TEK, and Tekniska Föreningen i Finland, TFiF, granted the 20,000 euro award for developing and commercializing the software technology of Finnish computer games. The award winners have developed the Habbo Hotel gaming community and product family, and established Sulake Corporation Oy, the company, which manages the brand.

According to the jury, the software concept has been quickly utilized and commercialized in the developing international markets and the project has shown innovation and technological expertise. Habbo Hotel was created with personally developed, Java-based FUSE technology. The technological implementation demonstrates the skills of the creators, e.g. scaling works fluently supporting an environment full of simultaneous users. The award is also recognition of the know-how of the software technology for computer games created in Finland in recent years.

The Finnish Engineering Award is annually presented to a person or a team that has greatly advanced technical expertise in Finland. Creative effort, originality and practical implementation of an idea or theory are distinctive features of winning engineering works. Economic viewpoints also receive attention in the assessment. The award was presented for the first time in 1981.

The Finnish Engineering Award was presented this year in Helsinki on 31st of May.

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Congratulations Habbo Hotel!

[Krypsis]

Wow, that's quite cool, + Rep!

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Thanks a lot and nice avatar