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Wednesday, June 18, 2003

IBM sets up Centre for Advanced Studies in Bangalore

Press Trust of India
Bangalore, June 18

IBM India Software Labs (ISL) on Wednesday announced the setting up of IBM
Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) at its facility in Bangalore to allow
universities access to IBM's product development and the supporting
infrastructure.

The Bangalore CAS, one of the eight such centres opened worldwide, will
offer M Tech, MS and PhD students from premier engineering institutes in
India, access to IBM research areas, technical staff and other resources,
with the goal of solving research problems of software developers, an IBM
release said.

IBM has the opportunity to work with academic leaders and researchers on
research projects, it said.

Initiated in 1990 as part of the IBM software lab, CAS is established to
provide the link between academia and industry. Other CAS sites are located
at Austin and Raleigh (US), Dublin (Ireland), Barcelona (Spain), Ottawa and
Toronto (Canada) and Australia.

"Through this programme, we will work closely with universities in India to
create a world-class applied research programme for development of winning
solutions in the academia and IBM," IBM India Software Labs (ISL) director,
Uday Shukla said.

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