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IBM Launches Open Collaborative Research Program with Seven US Universities

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IBM and seven leading US universities have announced a new open software research program under the Open Collaboration Research Principles. This program aims to promote open collaboration and overcome intellectual property challenges between universities and industry. The initial projects will focus on software quality, privacy and security, mathematical optimization, and clinical decision support. IBM's Open Collaborative Research program will enable researchers to collaborate with faculty and students at top US universities on strategically defined software projects.

Key Takeaways:

  • The program aims to advance the state of the art in software development, address societal importance, technical difficulty, and need for collaboration.
  • The initial projects will address software quality, privacy and security, mathematical optimization, and clinical decision support.
  • The program will make results developed by IBM Research and university faculty and students available as open source software code.
  • The universities participating in the program include Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at Davis.
  • The program will serve as a great illustration of the benefits of collaborative innovation with the open source community.
  • Beth Burnside, Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley, agrees that the program will maximize the impact and public benefit of university research through open collaboration.
  • Pradeep Khosla, Dean, Carnegie Mellon University, adds that the program is driving additional investment in innovative university and IT industry research.

Statistics:

  • 7 US universities are participating in the program.
  • The program will focus on 4 initial projects: software quality, privacy and security, mathematical optimization, and clinical decision support.
  • The program aims to advance the state of the art in software development, address societal importance, technical difficulty, and need for collaboration.
  • 100% of the results developed by IBM Research and university faculty and students will be made available as open source software code, and all additional intellectual property developed will be openly published or made available royalty-free.

Sources:

  • IBM (NYSE: IBM)
  • University & Industry Innovation Summit Team (December 2005)
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Cisco
  • HP
  • Intel
  • Comtex SmarTrend(SM) Alert (2006)
  • Market Wire (December 14, 2006)
  • Comtex News Network, Inc. (2004-2006)
  • IBM (www.ibm.com)

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