Hyderabad: TCS in association with IIIT Hyderabad is setting up a FC Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems (KCIS). It finalized 60,000 square feet area with an expected budget of Rs 20 crore.

Leading software company Tata Consultancy Services is planning to set up intelligent systems centre at IIT Hyderabad to promote start-ups and researches. Tata sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry, TCS CEO N Chandrasekharan and Telangana IT Minister K T Rama Rao attended the ceremony to set the foundation stone for research center at 60, 000 sq feet area of IIT-H.

The new KCIS is significantly going to promote lots of innovative researches in several areas including intelligent systems, machine learning, robotics, and natural language processing and many other technologies which are relevant to automation.

The new center will try to attract projects and funding from various entities in the government and industry sectors. And it will coordinate with the associated areas across the various centres of IIT Hyderabad as well as the other institutes in the country.

Mr. Mistry addressing the gathering and said that, “TCS and IIT Hyderabad the two leaders have come together to set up a centre in a city which has already established itself as technology hub and continued to grow”.

TCS said a statement that, start-up companies are the best one to transform research in academic labs for the benefit of society, so the KCIS will also focus on private enterprise promotion in the intelligent systems area.