Friday, May 13, 2011

EMC beefs up Mass. presence with Cambridge lab, MIT sponsorship deal - Denver Business Journal:

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managementgiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Medi Lab sponsorship is one of several initiatives coordinated out of EMC Researcbh Cambridge, which will be located at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will house EMC’s security-businessw research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as abou t a dozen researchers, technologists and businessa leadersacross EMC’s business units. The company also has researcy facilities in China andSanta Calif.
“Research and advancefd technology groupsacross EMC, alongv with our global university research partners, are discoverint and exploring new technologies that will shapse the future of digital said Jeff Nick, EMC senior vice president and chief technology in a statement. “This is an incredibls opportunity for EMC to bring together some ofthe world’s leading researcu minds and innovators in areas such as personal information information integration and cloud computing.
” As a consortiumm sponsor of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to accesas the center’s research on how peopl use and interact with new EMC said its initial collaboration will be on new models for data ownership and interfaces for business transactions and health care IT A consortium sponsorship costas $200,000 per year for a minimum of three years. Sponsors receivwe full intellectual property rights to technology developed at the lab durinttheir sponsorship. The announcement comes a week after EMC and a grouop of universities and technologyh companies announced the development of a high performancew computing research facilityin Holyoke, Mass.
Othe tech giants have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridgre in recent years. (Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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