Infosys funds research center of USC

Bangalore: Infosys Technologies, a global IT services and consulting company, has announced an agreement with The University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering. It is said that the company will set up an Infosys-supported Research Center at USC. The agreement was signed by Yannis C. Yortsos, dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO and managing director, Infosys Technologies.

Yortsos, said, “Infosys’ global vision of engineering is compatible with that of the Viterbi School and the University of Southern California. This agreement will explore a model of interaction in research, education and training in areas of interest to both Infosys and USC. The collaboration will include joint research, bilateral visits by researchers, student internships and distance education, among other activities.”

The agreement provides that the Center for Research & Education in Advanced Software Technologies (CAST) will open on the USC campus. Created with funding from Infosys, CAST will facilitate joint research and education in such areas as software architecture, service oriented architecture and information integration, intelligent systems and agents, mobile and wireless systems, sensor networks and CAD frameworks and tools for hardware and software.

Subu Goparaju, vice president and head SETLabs, Infosys Technologies, stated, “The United States is the hub for innovation in science and technology. Through this collaboration we hope to work with the best and the brightest engineering talent in the world on innovative technology solutions. USC has among the largest number of international students of any US university and the USC graduate program in engineering is widely acknowledged to be among the top 10 in the US.”

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