Partially funded by the Research Council of Norway as a Centre
for Research-based Innovation (SFI),
iAD is the only centre of its kind led
by a commercial company. iAD is directed by Microsoft Development Center Norway (MDCN)
collaboration with Accenture, and leading universities: Cornell
University, Dublin City University, BI
Norwegian School of Management and the universities in
Tromsø (UiT), Trondheim (NTNU) and Oslo (UiO).
Information access technology has emerged as one of the most
innovative
technology areas impacting a wide range of industries,
business models
and even social patterns. The iAD Centre targets core research for next
generation precision, analytics and scale
the information access
domain.
