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The Week in Germany: Business, Technology and the Environment January 25, 2008 IT Department at Kaiserlautern Technical University Receives Renowned
IBM Faculty Award The information technology department at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany has received the world-renowned IBM Faculty Award. The $40,000 cash prize will go to promoting a specific research project in information management. It was recently presented to the university at a ceremony on campus by Udo Hertz, director of development for information management at IBM in Germany.
Information Systems Professor Stefan Deßloch, who accepted the prize on behalf of the research team he leads at the Kaiserslautern university, honored the close cooperation between his institute and IBM: "It is precisely in a thematic area like information integration, which is so closely related to praxis, that close cooperation with industry is so important to define realistic requirements. This can happen in an ideal fashion within the framework of our cooperation with IBM." Hertz meanwhile emphasized the other side of the coin - the importance for his corporation of working with researchers: "With the Faculty Award we are honoring the forward-looking IT work of the TU Kaiserslautern. Fostering practical projects in academia is a key focus of IBM and an important investment for our company in Germany." The project which the prize will sponsor is called 'Processing of Data in Information Integration and in service-oriented Architectures' (Verarbeitung von Datenmengen in der Informationsintegration und in dienstorientierten Architekturen). It aims to develop processes to simplify and streamline the integration of data from different programs and databases, which would help overcome a major problem in information management. Organizations and companies tend to save their data in several different and incompatible programs and databases. Usually this means that a wide range of complex technologies must be jointly utilized to bring this information together. Integrating and better managing information often fails in many cases. Developing software that allows for simpler integration of information could considerably improve the information management of organizations and companies. The IBM Faculty Award sponsors research projects that deliver relevant results in improving business processes. A high-level panel of international IBM researchers and scientists select the winners. "Fostering the universities serves not only research, but is an
important investment for us in the education of our future employees,
whom we regard as the most important capital for our businesses in Germany,"
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