On Tuesday, IBM and the University of Porto inaugurated the first Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Portugal, located on the campus of the College of Engineering.
IBM CAS in Portugal is the company’s ninth research centre in Europe and the twentieth in the world. It will specialise in applied research in five core areas:
SSME - Service Science Management and Engineering (Management Science and Services);
SOA - Services Oriented Architecture;
Cloud Computing / Virtualisation;
Business Process Modelling;
Secondary School Education
The opening ceremony was conducted by José Joaquim Oliveira, chairman of IBM Portuguesa, José Marques dos Santos, Rector of the University of Porto and Carlos Costa, Director of the College of Engineering.
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