France's École Polytechnique said it plans to work with Microsoft on research into bioinformatics.
The planned accord, details of which the school said are still under discussion, was announced 18 October during a visit to the school's Paliseau campus by Microsoft CEO STeve Ballmer. In a statement, the school said the agreement would entail "a contribution by Microsoft to the work of the research centre of the École Polytechnique and of its partners in ParisTech," the association of 11 of France's Grandes Écoles in science and engineering.
Areas for collaboration, the school said, concern bioinformatics and related high-performance computing. The work is expected to begin at the start of the 2007/8 acacademic year.
The accord is part of growing Microsoft effort to build better links with research universities in France, and across Europe. Earlier this year the comnpany announced increased collaboration with the French state computer lab, INRIA.
The planned accord, details of which the school said are still under discussion, was announced 18 October during a visit to the school's Paliseau campus by Microsoft CEO STeve Ballmer. In a statement, the school said the agreement would entail "a contribution by Microsoft to the work of the research centre of the École Polytechnique and of its partners in ParisTech," the association of 11 of France's Grandes Écoles in science and engineering.
Areas for collaboration, the school said, concern bioinformatics and related high-performance computing. The work is expected to begin at the start of the 2007/8 acacademic year.
The accord is part of growing Microsoft effort to build better links with research universities in France, and across Europe. Earlier this year the comnpany announced increased collaboration with the French state computer lab, INRIA.
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