GATEWAY LOCATION CISCO INVESTS €26M AT R&D FACILITY
Last year, global networking products giant Cisco announced a €26m investment over two years at its Galway research and development facility, with the creation of 115 new R&D positions. The new projects expand the mandate of the Cisco Galway R&D centre into new business
areas in communication and collaboration software technology including enterprise and cloud enabled desktop, mobile applications, desktop virtualisation and real-time web communications. The Cisco Galway site originally opened in 2007. Cisco also has sales and EMEAR capital operations at its offices in East Point, Dublin.
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FUJITSU WORKS WITH DERI ON NETWORK KNOWLEDGE RESEARCH
Last year, Fujitsu Laboratories began a significant investment in a research programme with Digital Enterprise Research Institute (Deri), which is based in NUI Galway. The research is being carried out in the area of networked knowledge, identifying new models and commercial opportunities for exploiting the vast quantities of static and dynamic data on the internet, making it more valuable to end-users. “This joint research collaboration with Deri, featuring
large-scale research resources in the field of semantic web, offers new R&D opportunities and represents a step forward toward the realisation of a human centric intelligent society envisioned by Fujitsu,” said Tatsuo Tomita, president of Fujitsu Laboratories. The research is led by Prof Stefan Decker, director of
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Deri at NUI Galway and one of the leading scientists in the semantic web field. He and the research team are investigating models and approaches for integrating and validating data available on the internet with a view to enabling innovative applications and businesses to be designed and brought to the market across numerous industries.
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