TCS, US varsity to set up research facility

Pittsburg, April 14

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A prestigious US university and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have collaborated to set up a state-of-the-art facility here which its promoters say would lay the groundwork for the fourth industrial revolution by conducting cutting edge research.

The collaboration comes more than a century after Jamshedji Tata came to this city, known as the steel-making capital, to understand technologies which he would later use to launch India’s own industrial revolution.

Top Indian industrialist Ratan Tata, joined by Carnegie Mellon University president Subra Suresh along with Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran, broke the ground of the new TCS Hall at the university campus.

Supported by an unprecedented USD 35 million grant from TCS, which is the largest-ever industry donation for the CMU, the building when complete by next year would become the hub of CMU and TCS collaborations on promoting next generation technologies.

“Today, we are not looking at heavy metal and millions of tonnes of steel. We are looking at a collaboration of intellectual skills and the development of two countries together that might bring about global understanding between people,” Tata said.

Suresh said the latest addition to the rapidly-expanding CMU landscape, this nearly 50,000 gross square-foot TCS Hall, will house research and academic spaces where both institutions will collaborate on mutual interests in fields such as cognitive systems and autonomous vehicles and robotics. — PTI