Carnegie Mellon thrives on its interdisciplinary, collaborative nature, not only within the university, but also with companies. The university, and particularly the College of Engineering, have enjoyed a successful history of corporate partnerships that have led to significant research advances.




Following in that tradition, IBM and Carnegie Mellon teamed up to host a research exchange this past fall. The day included panel sessions presented by teams of IBM and Carnegie Mellon researchers, as well as breakout sessions for further discussion of the topics presented in the panels. Topics covered included Services Science, Materials Science, High Performance Computing, and Human-Computer Interaction. The day concluded with a group review led by Robert Morris, VP of Services Research at IBM and Peter Lee, Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon.

The IBM Carnegie Mellon Research Exchange at Carnegie Mellon is a joint effort that has come from collaboration with Robert Morris (Carnegie Mellon's Partnership Executive) and Spiros Papadimitriou, Research Staff Member, IBM Research (Carnegie Mellon Alum and Campus Liaison) and others at IBM. The purpose of this event is to maintain an ongoing exchange of research ideas between IBM researchers and Carnegie Mellon faculty in an effort to develop collaborative research activities of mutual interest. From this foundation, IBM and Carnegie Mellon can work together to build core research strengths to solve academic and industrial/corporate problems. The first exchange of ideas was hosted by IBM in early February 2007 at the T.J. Watson Research facility in New York. Twelve Carnegie Mellon faculty and staff met with a large number of IBM researchers and kick off this ongoing interaction.

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