Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University and IIT- Bombay also among 5 institutes selected from India, 50 worldwide.
The College of Engineering, Pune (CoEP), is among the five educational institutes in India, which have been selected by the global information technology (IT) firm, International Business Machines (IBM) for its prestigious Shared University Research (Sur) 2011 awards.
These five institutes would cumulatively get USD 250,000 from the firm. Fifty institutes were selected worldwide. Under the Sur project, the five Indian institutes will have technical collaboration with experts, software and high performance computing from IBM for projects related to education and healthcare.
The country manager, IBM India university relations, Bhooshan Kelkar said the IBM during its centennial year, has announced five awards instead of the usual two for Indian institutes. Kelkar was interacting with the media at a city hotel on Tuesday. The vice chancellor of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), K Krishnakumar and the director, CoEP, Anil Sahasrabudhe, were also present.
Among the five Indian institutes selected for the IBM Sur awards this year, three are from the state: College of Engineering Pune (CoEP), Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) at Nashik and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B).
The other two institutes are IIT Delhi (IIT-D) and PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.
For the IBM Sur project, CoEP will be working together with IIT-B and IIT-D on building a collaborative cloud platform.
“The focus will be on facilitating large-scale sharing and scientific research on education and energy management. Sharing is the most important concept in cloud computing. Research will be conducted on how to cut down operational costs, manage resources better and overall increase in efficiency level. Our efforts will be to bring in advance co-designs of future computers systems and optimally align software applications,” said Sahasrabudhe.
The Sur project with YCMOU is focused on intelligent Information and communication technologies (ICT) enabled education content delivery system for students across 56 rural and urban centres in Maharashtra.
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