Hitachi Sponsors Georgia Tech Convergence Innovation Competition For Second Year
02 Febrero 2012 - 6:59AM
Business Wire
Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (Hitachi CTA)
today announced that Hitachi is a sponsor of the Georgia Institute
of Technology’s 2011-2012 Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC).
The CIC is a highly successful program for companies seeking
short-term innovation results.
The CIC, now in its sixth year, features Georgia Tech students
of all majors and levels of study. After forming teams and
developing a viable business case, the students build commercially
viable end-to-end prototypes and present live demos of
applications, devices, media or services. Industry partners such as
Hitachi provide guidance throughout the process. At the end of the
semester, a panel of judges from academia and industry review the
presentations and rank the best in each category. The 2011-12 CIC
announced categories include mobile augmented reality,
machine-to-machine, societal impact, health IT and campus
community.
“Our students benefit from working on these projects with a
global technology company such as Hitachi,” said Russ Clark, PhD,
associate director of the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations
Center (GT-RNOC) and research scientist in Georgia Tech’s College
of Computing. “The real-world focus on providing compelling
end-user benefits while designing for the efficient development and
deployment of applications and services is critical to preparing
the students for contribution to business and society going
forward.”
“Hitachi is proud to sponsor the Convergence Innovation
Competition again this year,” said David Foote, Hitachi Chief
Technology Officer. “Last year’s competition was very successful,
and resulting in multiple highly creative and commercially viable
applications. This year, Hitachi is supporting multiple categories
with an emphasis on ease of deployment and ROI potential for
applications developers and service providers.”
In addition to sponsoring the competition, Hitachi is providing
Georgia Tech a full suite of the Hitachi SuperJTM Applications
Environment middleware product, an ecosystem for the OSGiTM Service
Platform, along with support and consultation for students as they
progress through the program. For more information on the OSGi
Service Platform, please visit www.osgi.org.
The CIC is a joint production of the GT-RNOC and the Institute
for People and Technology (IPaT). The RNOC staff, along with
industry partners and leading researchers, facilitates the guidance
of student teams. For successful development, RNOC provides
top-notch technical support with their expansive array of
infrastructure and platforms. The IPaT partnership extends
opportunities to encompass new competition categories and student
engagement in the areas of healthcare, media, humanitarian systems
and other complex human enterprises.
About Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world’s
premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News &
World Report’s top public universities, the Institute enrolls more
than 20,000 students within its six colleges. Georgia Tech is the
nation’s leading producer of engineers as well as a leading
producer of female and minority engineering Ph.D. graduates.
Holding more than 780 patents and receiving approximately $570
million in sponsored awards, Georgia Tech ranks among the nation’s
top ten universities (without a medical school) in research
expenditures. Visit www.gatech.edu for more information.
About Institute for People and Technology
The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) is a network of
Georgia Tech’s world-class researchers and industry innovators
collaborating on groundbreaking research to transform the fields of
media, education, healthcare and humanitarian systems. For more
information about IPaT visit http://www.ipat.gatech.edu.
About GT-RNOC
GT-RNOC exists to accelerate innovation combining SIP + Web2.0
applications and services for Interactive TV set tops, handsets,
and mobile computers. Considered an enabling center, RNOC provides
Georgia Tech academic, research and development communities with
the access networks, core services, application services and
enablers, as well as fixed and mobile clients required to pioneer
end-to-end ubiquitous visual and voice communication integrated
with personalized real-time information and media. GT-RNOC produces
the Convergence Innovation Competition annually during Georgia
Tech’s fall and spring semesters. For more information, visit
http://rnoc.gatech.edu/.
About HITACHI
Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc., a subsidiary
of Hitachi, Ltd., develops, manufactures and markets solutions for
communications service providers in the Americas.
The company offers high-speed optical networking equipment for
long haul and metro applications, standards-compliant
fiber-to-the-premises solutions, software platforms for subscriber
applications deployment and management, and products and
technologies for wireless network operators, including 4G evolved
packet core solutions. For more information about Hitachi
Communication Technologies America, please visit
www.hitachi-cta.com.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo,
Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately
360,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2010 (ended March 31, 2011)
consolidated revenues totaled 9,315 billion yen ($112.2 billion).
Hitachi will focus more than ever on the Social Innovation
Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems,
power systems, environmental, industrial and transportation
systems, and social and urban systems, as well as the sophisticated
materials and key devices that support them. For more information
on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at
http://www.hitachi.com.
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