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IBM has announced Shared University Research (SUR) awards for different Smarter Planet projects in collaboration with four leading educational institutes of India – Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT-B), Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Indian Institute of Technology – Indore and Symbiosis International University.
Through SUR awards, IBM partners with different universities to facilitate deep research involving multiple disciplines, agencies and government bodies. These projects result in solutions that impact the society and the Planet. IBM gives about 60-70 SUR awards each year globally of which 11 have been with Indian educational institutes in the last two years. The 2012 awards, totaling USD 150,000 will include technical collaboration with IBM experts, access to IBM software and high performance computing required for the successful completion of projects.
Dr. Bhooshan Kelkar, Country Manager, University Relations, IBM India said, “The SUR award is a very competitive global program that leverages academia-corporate partnership to address some of the challenging problems faced by society. We believe the joint research between IBM experts and some of the brightest minds from academia can lead to innovative technologies and solutions.”
IBM India and IIT Bombay will jointly work in the field of Applied Mathematics. This project comes at a time when the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has declared 2012 as the ‘National Mathematical year’ as a tribute to math wizard Srinivasa Ramanujan. The project will involve application of techniques from stochastic models, optimisation and control, graph theory, machine learning and game theory to address the complexities in the areas of telecom, service delivery, smarter commerce and smarter cities.
The SUR project with IIT Bombay, IIT Indore and Cummins College of Engineering for Women relates to building a Collaborative Cloud Platform. This project, is an extension of the last years Cloud Collaboratory led by IIT Bombay, that included College of Engineering Pune and IIT Delhi will continue to focus on facilitating large scale sharing and collaborative scientific research in Education and Energy Management. An efficient collaborative cloud will help cut down operational costs, manage resources better and facilitate higher collaboration through increasing participation. This project will also provide hands on experience for Indian students on cloud as opposed to just theoretical knowledge, exposure to private cloud and public cloud by virtue of on campus cloud setup.
The joint research between IBM India and Symbiosis International University focuses on exploring the behavioural patterns of customers and employees through Social Media Analytics. The project will leverage the expertise of HR organisations in deriving insights from unstructured customer centric data. This project will help organisations in better talent acquisition and management as well as understanding customer behaviour.
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