University Collaborations
The Academia and Industry contribute in different ways to society and these contributions in the form of research publications and products/services were largely independent to begin with. The limitless power of a university-industry collaboration through real-time relationships and direct technology transfer has seen increased adoption today. The results of such collaboration include : new opportunities, innovation, new ventures, tools, frameworks etc., to name a few.
By actively forging collaborations with leading Research Institutes & Universities in the USA , Europe and Canada , Torry Harris aims to strengthen its R&D division through greater attention to early stage innovation in the areas of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Agile Development.
Torry Harris currently collaborates with the following universities:
- University of Leeds, UK
- Agile Software Engineering Group of the University of Calgary, Canada
- Lancaster University, UK
- University of Twente, Netherlands
- University of Aalborg, Denmark
- University of Maribor Science Park, SOA Competency Centre , Slovenia
- Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Drexel University, USA
- Bournemouth University, UK
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The Distributed Systems and Services group at Leeds University, unites two central research themes within the mainstream of Computer Science - architecture and systems, each linked through a common objective: to support the needs of the next generation of distributed/Internet computing.
The Agile Software Engineering/e-Business engineering (ASE/EBE) group at the University of Calgary is headed by Dr. Frank Maurer and focuses on the following research areas: Tools for Agile Software Teams, Application engineering for digital surfaces, Empirical studies on agile software practices.
Research and teaching takes an experimental systems approach at the Computing Department of Lancaster University. They combine theory, systems building and multidisciplinary work to create the distributed interactive systems of the future.
CTIT (Centre for Telematics and Information Technology) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands is one of the largest academic ICT research institutes in Europe. Over 475 researchers actively participate in the research programme. Integration of technology-based research and its application in specific domains is a clear focus of CTIT.
The department’s ambition is to be recognized internationally as a leading computer science environment.
It is a department with many coherent activities within research, education, technology, development and co- operation with the surrounding society and research dissemination within the computer science area. The department's research approach ranges from formal logic, over experimental construction to empirical description.
SOA Competency centre is a non-profit center for research, development, introduction and dissemination of knowledge and technologies in the field of SOA, the key objectives are to transfer knowledge and technology in the economy, participation in joint projects and the flow of ideas between the academic and business worlds.
SOA Competency Center operates under the auspices of the Scientific Park, University of Maribor, and shows a close relationship with the University of Maribor, on the one hand and the key technological and strategic partners on the economy.
The Institute of Information Management (IWI-HSG) is one of the leading research institutes of the University of St. Gallen. Founded in 1989, it employs more than 50 researchers, today. The research program "Business Engineering" of the University of St. Gallen incorporates all larger research projects at the IWI-HSG. The aim of this research program is to bring together researchers of the university and public sector experts and business experts from our corporate partners. IWI-HSG's applied research is performed within the context of competence centres that focus on specific research themes. The IWI-HSG is a full Associate Member of the European Research Center for Information Systems.
The Department of Computer Science (CS) has research and education programs in software engineering, artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling and human computer interaction, computer vision and graphics, high performance computing, networks and security, symbolic computation and computer science education. The department recently established, with digital media, a joint gaming curriculum and research lab.
The Software Systems Research Centre focuses on the research, development and application of innovative modelling tools and technologies for software systems. A particular emphasis is upon research that impacts professional practice. Hence, research foci are geared to those phases of development that are either particularly problematic (in terms of the software industry) or which have the biggest impact on project success (or otherwise). They concentrate, therefore, upon those often neglected 'upstream' aspects of software engineering that have a major impact on software development practice, such as moving from business perspectives through requirements to software design.