TCS to invest $1 mn in Stanford R&D project

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is planning to invest $1 million and join a five-year transnational research and development (R&D) collaboration with Stanford University for research in the critical area of data privacy.

"As part of the collaboration, TCS and the computer science department of Stanford will work on joint projects focussed on areas of data privacy," S Ramadorai, MD and CEO of TCS, said today.

"The aim is to create a reliable global platform for security of online data privacy," he added.

The collaboration would help TCS provide leading edge data masking tools for clients to securely transmit data, Ramadorai said.

"We have an internal team working with a data masking platform, and we will share some findings with the researchers. The outcome might be an improved version of our product or a totally new project," he said.