Date:02/08/2009 URL:
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/08/02/stories/2009080256860100.htm
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Embarks on a three-year project
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Long contract with Thiagarajar College of Engineering
For collaborative work in the field of 'cloud computing'
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MADURAI: The Research and Development wing of Yahoo!India entered into a "long
contract" with the Thiagarajar College of Engineering (TCE) here on Friday
to do collaborative work in the field of 'cloud computing.'
A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed by the R&D Director of
Yahoo!India K. Chidambaram and the college correspondent Karumuttu T. Kannan
both of whom described it as a "mutually beneficial association."
Speaking to media persons before signing the MoU, Mr. Chidambaram said that he
was impressed with the enthusiasm shown by the TCE faculty and students to
work in advanced and cutting-edge areas of internet services.
With this pact, TCE became the first academic institution in India with which
Yahoo!India had entered into a long-term contract for a period of three years,
he said.
According to him, the company normally goes only for "short contracts" but it
is different in case of the Madurai-based engineering college which has shown
the capacity to work in challengingfields of technology.
Cloud computing is an internet-based computing wherein resources are provided
over the internet as service to users. "This is an emerging field of technology
which requires lot of brain power and TCE was a natural choice for us since we
found that it is among the few institutions involved in research," Mr.
Chidambaram
said.
He said that Yahoo!India had collaboration with four academic institutions in
the country among which the TCE got the opportunity of having the longest
duration in the first shot itself.
"The progress of research will be monitored carefully and it will be analysed
every quarter. Delivery of results is an important criterion because the
research
agreement involved lot of money," he said. Mr. Kannan said that TCE was keen to
enter into a tie-up with the multinational company because "we want to
graduate ourselves into a research institution along with excellence in
academic sphere." He described the collaboration as a feather in the cap and a
new milestone for the institution.
V. Abhaikumar, Principal, said that undergraduate, postgraduate and research
students would work along with the faculty in this project. S. Mercy Shalinie,
Head of Computer Science department, TCE, also spoke.
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