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Pekka Korhonen, emeritus professor from the Department of Information and Service Management, has passed away. Korhonen contributed to the internationalisation of the School of Business and achieving world-class in research. Kuvassa Pekka Korhonen puhuu yleisolle. Pekka Korhonen. Photo: Aalto University/Katja Maria Nyman
Text: Jyrki Wallenius, Pekka's colleague and friend
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Pekka Korhonen, emeritus professor from the Department of Information and Service Management has died on January 24th, 2024, at the age of 79.
He was born in Kuopio, Finland, on November 26th, 1944. At the time of Pekka's birth, Finland had just come out of the war and the country was poor - and so was his family. As a child, Pekka lived his mother who was a single parent in Kuopio. The generations were large and there were plenty of children and friends to play with. However, it was not given that even gifted children would receive an education. Pekka was to the best of our knowledge the only one of his childhood friends who decided to enter high school, and later university.
After graduating from high school, Pekka studied mathematics at the University of Helsinki. Pekka completed his BSc and MSc degrees rather quickly in the late 1960s. After that he worked for a decade at the University of Helsinki Computing Centre. After meeting Jyrki Wallenius in 1974 at a Mathematical Programming Conference in Eger, Hungary, he became interested in graduate studies in computational statistics, which he rapidly finished (in 1978) (with a dissertation "A Stepwise Procedure for Multivariate Clustering", Computing Centre, University of Helsinki).
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