The Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) was established at the IBM Toronto Lab in 1990. Its mission was to strengthen the links between research communities and IBM. CAS has been working closely with academic institutions, as well as corporate, government, and other IBM research groups on various projects that relate to the products of the IBM Toronto Lab.
Because of the success of CAS Toronto, several IBM Laboratories and Research facilities around the world have opened their own Centers for Advanced Studies. The Dublin Center for Advanced Studies(CAS) was established in 2003. A number of activities have been initiated to enable collaboration between the staff of the lab and key researchers working in related areas. It is hoped that these activities will help ensure timely and effective transfer of leading-edge research to IBM product development groups.
CAS was formed with five main objectives:
To ensure timely and effective transfer of leading-edge research to IBM product development groups;
To provide academics with access to problems of interest to IBM developers;
To enable collaboration among academia, industry, government and IBM research centres as well as IBM development labs;
To provide a venue for research sabbaticals;
To become the leadership model within IBM and Canada for co-operative research.
The main emphasis of CAS research projects is solving problems of utmost importance to software developers. However, it also entertains proposals relating to other aspects of computer science, including those involving theoretical work. CAS is continually initiating long-term projects in collaboration with other members of the research community. The results of these projects vary from research publications to prototypes and new directions for products