Three Technology Companies Join to Finance Research

December 16, 2005 | Source: New York Times

Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems will underwrite a $7.5 million laboratory on the Berkeley campus. The research focus of The Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems Laboratory will be to apply advances in the use of statistical techniques in machine learning to Web services — from maps to e-mail to online calendars — which have become an increasingly important part of the commercial Internet.