IBM Centers for Advanced Studies

The IBM Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS) are a group of research centres on the world that facilitate collaboration with university students and professors using IBM systems. There are 20 CAS located in various countries around the world.^[1] IBM's first CAS was established at the IBM Toronto Software Lab.

CAS is responsible for the annual CASCON.

References

↑ "IBM Centers for Advanced Studies".

External links

Official site

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Initiatives	Academy of Technology Centers for Advanced Studies: CASCON Deep Thunder IBM Fellow Pulse conference The Great Mind Challenge DeveloperWorks: Develothon Linux Technology Center IBM Virtual Universe Community Smarter Planet

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Board of directors	Alain Belda William R. Brody Kenneth Chenault Michael L. Eskew David Farr Shirley Ann Jackson Andrew N. Liveris James McNerney James W. Owens Samuel J. Palmisano Virginia M. Rometty Joan E. Spero Sidney Taurel Lorenzo Zambrano

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