Infosys funds research center at University of Southern California

The University of Southern Calif­ornia (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering
and Infosys Technologies jointly announced an agreement to set-up an Infosys-supported
research center at USC. The agre­ement was signed by Yannis C Yortsos, Dean, USC
Viterbi School of Engin­eering and Kris Gopala­krishnan, CEO and MD, Infosys
Technologies.

"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," said Yortsos. 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 and 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.

The University of Southern Calif­ornia (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering and Infosys Technologies jointly announced an agreement to set-up an Infosys-supported research center

"The United States is the hub for innovation in science and technology," said
Subu Goparaju, VP and Head-SETLabs, Infosys Technologies. "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.