TU München - Fakultät für Informatik Lehrstuhl III: Datenbanksysteme

Award will fund "Workload Management for an Operational Business Intelligence Supercomputer"

Prof. Alfons Kemper's chair was selected as one of 59 professors in the world to receive a 2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, a program designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes around the world to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. TUM will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on Information Management.

Professor Alfons Kemper and Stefan Krompass, authors of the winning proposal titled "Workload Management for an Operational Business Intelligence Supercomputer" will lead the collaboration project with HP Labs. “Our goal with this program is to collaborate with the brightest minds from around the world to tackle the industry’s most complex problems and push the frontiers of fundamental science,” said Prith Banerjee, senior vice president, Research, HP and director, HP Labs. “TUM has demonstrated outstanding achievement and a vision that will help inspire technological innovation and address the most complex challenges and opportunities facing the industry in the next decade.”

HP reviewed nearly 300 proposals from more than 140 universities in 29 countries on a range of topics within the eight high-impact research themes at HP Labs – analytics, cloud, content transformation, digital commercial print, immersive interaction, information management, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability.

More details about the HP Labs Innovation Research Program and worldwide award recipients are available at http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/2009_results.html.