IBM announces SUR Awards

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IBM announces SUR Awards

IBM has announced Shared University Research (SUR) awards for different projects in collaboration with five leading educational institutes of India - IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, College of Engineering Pune (CoEP), Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) and PSG Tech, Coimbatore. The award, totalling US$250,000, will include technical collaboration with IBM experts, access to IBM software and computing required for the successful completion of projects related to healthcare and education.

Bhooshan Kelkar, Country Manager, University Relations, IBM India, said, "The Shared University Research programme is a very competitive, worldwide programme that promotes academia-corporate partnership to address some challenging problems faced by society. We hope that the collaboration between IBM experts and some of the brightest minds from academia will help provide innovative technology solutions that will bring healthcare and education closer to people."

The SUR project with IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and College of Engineering Pune relates to building a Collaborative Cloud Platform. The project led by IIT Bombay will focus on facilitating large-scale sharing and collaborative scientific research ion Education and Energy Management. An efficient collaborative cloud will help cut down operational costs, manage resources better and facilitate higher collaboration through increasing participation. The project is also expected to yield important insights and tools to advance the co-design of future computer systems and optimally aligned software applications.


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