Infy Inks Pact for Research on Analytics, BI
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Jun 26, 2008

Infosys Technologies and the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) have recently signed an agreement to undertake joint research venture. Under this agreement, Infosys will sponsor research in unstructured data analytics, inference, and diagnostics tools. It will also sponsor the development of next-generation Business Intelligence (BI) tools at IIIT-H. The agreement was signed by Prof. Rajeev Sangal, director at IIIT Hyderabad and Subu Goparaju, vice president and head, SETLabs of Infosys Technologies.

Rajeev Sangal, director at IIIT Hyderabad said, "Academia and industry can work together to take research from laboratory to industry. Thus the Indian IT industry can move higher up the value chain. The collaboration between Infosys and IIIT-H's centre for data engineering is a step in this direction."

The objective of this collaboration is to improve the functionality provided in Health Information Management Infrastructure (HIMI) solutions.

The research will focus on:

* Building region-based feature selection algorithms for images to enhance image search and retrieval

* Integrating radiology report (free-form text) mining functionality into HIMI
Diagnoses Generator System

* Integrating with diagnostic framework for downstream processing

* Categorizing and reorganizing articulated knowledge for efficient knowledge exploration.

Infosys has been collaborating with academic institutions with its global internship program. Infosys has also been hiring university graduates in the US and the UK.


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