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 Sun Microsystems, Inc., with the support of the Embedded Software
Consortium under the Ministry of Education announced today the
partnership with National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua
University, and National Chiao Tung University to promote OpenSPARC
technology development.
In an announcment held on July 7th, in Taipei, Sridhar Vajapey, Sun Microsystems, gave the opening and
talked about OpenSPARC program followed by Dr. Shyu, Dean of EECS of
Tsing Hua University, representing MOE's SoC program, and Dr. Lee,
Professor of Tsing Hua University and Director for MOE's ESW program,
followed by Joe Pai, Sun's GM for Taiwan. All were very thankful to
Sun for making such leading design and technology to Taiwan's
institution and were giving a very high expectation on how this
program would potentially benefit Taiwan's technology and industrial
advancement in the future.
Sridhar Vajapey presented ceremonial plagues and a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server and FPGA board to
the three universities' representatives. The three representatives:
- Dr. Tei-Wei Kuo, Deputy Dean of CS&IT of National Taiwan University
- Dr. Jenq-Kuen Lee, Professor of Tsing Hua and Director of MOE's ESW program
- Dr. Wuu Yang, Professor of Chiao-Tung University
then gave a thankful speech and praised how it would change how the
curriculum would be developed and taught. Dr. Kuo mentioned that NTU
along will have 5 courses in the coming semester using OpenSPARC as
part of the curriculum. Dr. Lee indicated that there will be more than
three thousands Taiwanese students benefiting from the teaching of the
OpenSPARC program. Dr. Yang praised Sun for generously donating such
leading edge technology to institutions like his around the world.
Program Agenda
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More photos from the press event
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