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In 2009, IBM computer scientists will continue to collaborate with university researchers on several socially important projects, including:

Software for maturing workers
Focus: Multigenerational workforce
IBM researchers: Vicki Hanson, John Richards, Shari Trewin
University researchers: Sara Czaja (University of Miami/Miller School of Medicine & Department of Industrial Engineering), Peter Gregor (University of Dundee)

Patient-centered care
Focus: New generation hospital, including data and information management, real-time data acquisition and process control & management
IBM researchers: Segev Wasserkrug, Pnina Vortman
University researchers: Technion, Rambam Medical Center

Multicore computing
Focus: Multicore exploitation, including translation, optimization, code generation and runtime technologies for parallel programs, algorithmic scheduling, concurrecy libraries and benchmarking optimistic parallelization
IBM researchers: Vijay Saraswat, Gheorghe (Calin) Cascaval
University researchers: CMU, Rice University, SUNY Oswego, University of Texas at Austin

Service delivery
Focus: Mathematical modeling and analysis of service professionals' social networks
IBM researchers: Vinayaka Pandit, Gyana Parija
University researchers: Indian School of Business

In 2007, IBM and academic researchers collaborated on four open source projects:

Software quality
Focus: Applications performance
IBM researchers: Stephen Fink, Gary Sevitsky, Frank Tip
University researchers: Ras Bodik (UC Berkeley); Barbara Ryder (Rutgers)

Privacy & security policy management
Focus: Access control and end-to-end privacy
IBM researchers: John Karat, Jorge Lobo
University researchers: Lorrie Cranor (Carnegie Mellon); Elisa Bertino (Purdue)

Mathematical optimization
Focus: Optimizing industrial processes
IBM researchers: Jon Lee, Andreas Waechter, Pierre Bonami
University researchers: Jesus de Loera (University of California - Davis); Francois Margot (Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University)

Clinical decision support
Focus: Clinical records and at-home healthcare monitoring
IBM researchers: Marion Blount, Michelle Zhou
University researchers: Steve Feiner (Columbia), Kathy McKeown (Columbia); Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech)

See also:
2007 OCR index

Collaborative Research Initiatives

For details about OCR, contact Steve Lavenberg: sslaven@us.ibm.com

Last updated on January 6, 2009

About Open Collaborative Research  

IBM established the Open Collaborative Research (OCR) program to support open-source software research between IBM and universities.

The participating universities, named in December 2006, include: Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue, Rutgers, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Davis.

Selected projects are expected to be technically challenging and of great importance to the software industry and the world-at-large. They are intended to forge deep relationships between the university and IBM researchers.

All parties must agree that any software developed in an OCR project will be made available as open source. Other intellectual property stemming from OCR collaborations also will be openly available.

OCR grew out of an initiative in December 2005 by IBM, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and ten other IT and academic institutions to promote Open Collaboration Principles, which would accelerate collaborative research and innovation in software.