TCS to set up research centre at IIIT-Hyderabad
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IT services, consulting and business solutions company, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), will be setting up a research and development (R&D centre) at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad) with an investment of Rs 20 crore.
Called the FC Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems (KCIS), the 60,000-sft centre will act as an umbrella organisation at IIIT-Hyderabad to both strengthen the existing groups and facilitate new technologies.
The centre will also act as a force multiplier in attracting projects and funding from other entities in the government and industry sectors, coordinate research in related domains across different centres at the institute as well as in its research collaboration with other academic institutions in the country.
"The new KCIS will carry out high-impact research in intelligent systems, which is critical area for carrying out sustainable innovation in topics like natural language processing, robotics and cognitive sciences," TCS chief executive officer and managing director N Chandrasekaran told mediapersons on Thursday.
Besides high-quality research, the KCIS will focus on entrepreneurship promotion in the intelligent systems area as startup companies are the best means to transform the research in the academic labs for the benefit of the society at large, TCS said.
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