Xerox Corporation recently announced the opening of its India
Innovation Hub located in Chennai at the Olympia Technology Park.
Its initial mission is to develop document management solutions
that are relevant to emerging market countries and contribute
innovation to solutions and services delivery.
“The Xerox India Innovation Hub exemplifies our continued
commitment to customers in the emerging markets,” said Dr
Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox chief technology officer and president of
the Xerox Innovation Group.
The hub will leverage Xerox’s expertise in imaging, data
mining, smart document management, linguistics, and ethnography
with the latest technologies and trends such as cloud and web
computing, human computation, social networks and computational
economics.
“Linking the talent in India with Xerox’s 500
scientists at our centers in the U.S., Canada and France will allow
us to leverage the power of truly global innovation networks and
engage in cutting-edge research to create unique value for our
customers around the world,” said Dr Meera Sampath, director
of the Xerox India Innovation Hub.
Some of the on-going research projects include:
Multi-scale Document Services –
Xerox will partner with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras
(IIT Madras) to use on-demand cloud computing to improve efficiency
and economics of document services delivery.
Distributed Workflow Applications
– In partnership with IIT Madras’s Rural Technology
Business Incubator, Xerox is developing innovative solutions to
improve workflow at small technology-based businesses in rural
India.
Incentive Compatible Machine Learning for
Services- In conjunction with the Indian Institute of
Science, this project focuses on how machine learning and game
theory principles can be combined to improve the performance of
online service market places.
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