TUM and SAP announce strategic partnership in artificial intelligence

Learn about this new 100-million-euro campus that TUM and SAP are using to establish Artificial Intelligence research in Garching. Get to know more about current technology breakthroughs and partnerships that define advanced technology.

Introduction:

TUM and SAP: Taking partnership to a new level The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and SAP are now one step further. Today they have opened the hi-tech research center in the Garching campus. The funding has been extended to 100 million euros, and its purpose is to promote this center as a hub of innovation and cutting-edge technology.

New Research Center Unveiled:

TUM and SAP marked Wednesday as the official opening of the newest research center, the joint project between two parties. What you are about to enter in 2020 is not just a building but a worldwide center for AI research. Here, 700 SAP employees and 120 TUM researchers would build innovative software solutions.

Focus Areas:

The research at this new center will concentrate on several key areas: The research at this new center will concentrate on several key areas:

• Artificial Intelligence: The beginning of advanced manufacturing-based AI technologies.
• Digital Supply Chain: Maximizing and Aggressively Improving Supply Chain Operations.
• Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG): The pursuit of innovation for information systems that are sustainable, /productive, and of high ethical standard.
• Future of Work: Tackling some emerging trends in attending the workplace.
• Synthetic Data: Collecting big data to develop AI systems and provide them with high-quality work.
• Quantum Computing: Challenging the capability of computational resources available in the system.

A Pioneering Partnership:

On the digitalization of processes used by large-scale or industrial enterprises, TUM has a connection with SAP. It was founded in 2003 and has always maintained the niche of combining academic delivery and business acumen. This new center is the broadest such partnership in Germany, marking a new level of partnership between the two parties. It tells about the important milestone in their cooperation.

Statements from Leaders:

Markus Blume, the Science Minister of Bavaria, has spelled out the importance of this cooperation. He described it as a pioneering research approach that will foster development in Bavaria and across the European state.

TUM’s President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann said positively on the matter stating that he would keenly work on enhancing the cooperation with SAP. Regarding the center that he spearheaded, he often described its functionaries as being in charge of turning concepts into products that can be sold.

SAP Executive Board member Thomas Saueressig has also recently described this new campus as a working hub for cooperation between different fields. In this task, he emphasized the value of creativity and partnership.

Involvement of TUM Researchers:

Research leaders from TUM will participate in this initiative several faculty members from TUM are researchers of this institute. Their expertise spans various fields, including:

• Interpretable and Reliable Machine Learning: Listed below is an example of an academic profile of a scientist: Prof. Dr. Zeynep Akata.
• Applied Topology and Geometry: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bauer is the dean of the HECTOR School of Business HECTOR SHB, which is a combined party of the university as well as several other partners including companies.
• Foundations of Deep Neural Networks: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Jegelka:
• Ethics in Systems Design and Machine Learning: Prof. Dr. Niki Kilbertus
• Information Systems: Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar
• Quantum Computing: Prof. Dr. Christian Mendl
• Resource-Aware Machine Learning: Prof. Dr. Suvrit Sra
• IT Service Management, Development, and Operations: Prof. Dr. Ingo Weber
• Information Systems and Business Process Management: Dr. Holger Wittges

Conclusion:

New SAP building in TUM’s Garching campus is not only a research facility but a whole lot more. Thus, formal education and real-world practice are shown to possibly be the best can be done when these two establishments interact. Thus, this collaboration will for sure advance breakthroughs that will define the future of the automobile industry in Bavaria and worldwide.

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