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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