IBM India to collaborate with Indian Universities via SUR

IBM has announced Shared University Research (SUR) Grants for 2013 for different projects related to Analytics and Cloud in collaboration with leading educational institutes in the country.
These grants are expected to provide help to IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, Anna University, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, (VNIT) Nagpur, Cummins College of Engineering for Women and IIM Udaipur on projects ranging from Healthcare, Stock Market analytics and Cloud Computing.

The award will result in technical collaboration between the institutes and relevant IBM experts and also provide access to IBM software required for the successful completion of the projects.

Mezjan Dallas, Country Manager  University Relations, IBM India, said, Through Shared University Research (SUR), IBM partners with different Universities in India to facilitate deep research across multiple disciplines. In addition, many of this year's research projects are collaborative in nature, between multiple universities, thereby enabling them to leverage one another's strengths and potentially create greater impact.

Through Shared University Research (SUR), IBM will partner with different Universities to facilitate deep research involving multiple disciplines and multiple agencies including the government bodies.