Software major Microsoft has enrolled BV Raju Institute of Technology (BVRIT) as its member under the Microsoft Innovation Alliance programme.
Under this, students and teachers will be given access to a set of software resources and facilities for collaboration and skill development. The idea is to promote entrepreneurship among engineering, management, pharmacy, dental sciences and polytechnic streams, said Microsoft general manager (developer and platform evangelism) Moorthy K Uppaluri.
Local industry, institutions and universities will be brought to a common platform to solve industrial and societal problems. He said Microsoft would partner with 15 other colleges in the country in a year's time.
BVRIT, the first member of this alliance in Andhra Pradesh, will provide the required infrastructure like incubation centre, research and development centres and IT/ITeS operations on the campus, said its principal TS Surendra.
BVRIT has already worked on two projects — video surveillance and compression and remote operation of motors and pumps using an SMS for conservation of water — using Microsoft technologies, he added.
