UC Berkeley and Yahoo! forge research partnership
19 July 2005
Yahoo! and the University of California, Berkeley, have announced plans to open up a research lab near the university.
The partnership is aimed at getting access to the ideas and concepts of the students studying and researching at the university, according to Yahoo!
The joint research laboratory will be aimed at exploring social and mobile media technology and will be led by Marc Davis, a professor of information management and systems at UC Berkeley.
"By working together, Yahoo and UC Berkeley will change the future of internet media for millions of people around the world," Professor Davis wrote in a statement.
The Yahoo! Research Labs-Berkeley site will open off-campus next month. Yahoo! intends the lab to be one of several steps in providing a centre of both academic and social research and it will be completely funded by the web giant.
The research centre will be staffed by a group of ten to 20 researchers, comprised of Yahoo! employees and UC Berkeley students and faculty and the developments made by the laboratory will be subject to joint patenting on a case-by-case basis.
Yahoo! currently operates two other research facilities in California, located in Pasadena and Sunnyvale, but this is the group's first partnership with a higher education institute.
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