Tata Research Development and Design Centre

{{Infobox company

| name = TATA Research Development and Design Centre

| logo = Tata Group.svg

| logo_size = 250px

| type = Subsidiary

| foundation = {{start date and age|1981}}

| location = Pune, Maharashtra, India

| industry = {{ubl

|Software research

|Machine Learning

|Software Engineering

|Process Engineering

|System Research

}}

| parent = Tata Consultancy Services

| homepage = [http://www.tcs-trddc.com www.tcs-trddc.com]

}}

Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC) is a software research centre in Pune, India, established by Tata Group's TCS in 1981. TRDDC undertakes research in Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Process Engineering and Systems Research.

TRDDC developed TCS Code Generator Framework (formerly called MasterCraft),{{cite web |url=http://www.tcs.com/resources/brochures/Pages/TCSTechnologySolutions-TCSCodeGeneratorFramework.aspx |title=TCS Resources: Brochure: TCS Technology Solutions – TCS Code Generator Framework |accessdate=2010-02-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503153301/http://www.tcs.com/resources/brochures/Pages/TCSTechnologySolutions-TCSCodeGeneratorFramework.aspx |archivedate=3 May 2008 }} an artificial intelligence software that can automatically create code from a simple computer language and rewrite the code based on the user's needs.{{cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/26/business/tata.php|title=When Outsourcing Loses Human Element|publisher=International Herald Tribune|date=27 May 2005}}

Research at TRDDC has also resulted in the development of Swach (formerly known as Sujal), a low-cost water purifier that can be manufactured using locally available resources. TCS deployed thousands of these filters in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster of 2004 as part of its relief activities.{{Cite web |title=Services Update |url=http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/annualreport/2005/IEEE-AR05-Section1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320095706/http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/aboutus/annualreport/2005/IEEE-AR05-Section1.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-20 |website=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}}

Innovation

In 2007, TCS launched its Co-Innovation Network, a network of TCS Innovation Labs, startup alliances, University Research Departments, and venture capitalists.{{Cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/tcs-launches-its-coinnovation-network/191184/|title = TCS launches its Co-Innovation Network|date = 18 January 2007}}

In addition to TRDDC, TCS has 19 Innovation Labs based in three countries.[http://www.tcs.com/about/tcs_difference/innovation/tcs_labs/Pages/default.aspx]

TCS Innovation Lab, Convergence: Content management and delivery, convergence engines, networks such as 3G, WiMax, WiMesh, IP Testing for Quality of Service, IMS, OSS/BSS systems, and others.
TCS Innovation Lab, Delhi: Software Architectures, Software as a Service, natural language processing (NLP), text, data and process analytics, multimedia applications and graphics.
TCS Innovation Lab, Embedded Systems and Robotics, Kolkata and Bengaluru: Medical electronics, Machine Vision, Robotics, WiMAX, and WLAN technologies.
TCS Innovation Lab, Hyderabad: Computational methods in life sciences, meta-genomics, systems biology, e-security, smart card-based applications, digital media protection, nano-biotechnology, quantitative finance.
TCS Innovation Lab, Mumbai: Speech and natural language processing, wireless systems and wireless applications.
TCS Innovation Lab, Insurance – Chennai: IT Optimisation, Business Process Optimisation, Customer Centricity Enablers, Enterprise Mobility, Telematics, Innovation in Product Development and Management (Product lifecycle management) in Insurance.
TCS Innovation Lab, Chennai: Infrastructure innovation, green computing, Web 2.0 and next-generation user interfaces.
TCS Innovation Lab, Peterborough, England: New-wave communications for the enterprises, utility computing and RFID (chips, tags, labels, readers and middleware).
TCS Innovation Lab: Performance Engineering, Mumbai: Performance management, high performance technology components, and others.
TCS Innovation Lab, Cincinnati, United States: Engineering and Manufacturing IT solutions.

Some of the assets created by TCS Innovation Labs are DBProdem, Jensor [http://jensor.sourceforge.net Jensor released as Open Source], Wanem [http://wanem.sourceforge.net Wanem released as Open Source], Scrutinet.

In 2008, the TCS Innovation Lab-developed product, mKrishi, won the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Wireless category.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122227003788371453?mod=article-outset-box|title=The 2008 Technology Innovation Awards|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=30 September 2008|last1=Totty|first1=Michael}} mKrishi is a service that would enable India's farmers to receive useful information on an inexpensive mobile device.{{Cite web |title=About Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) |url=http://www.tcs.com/about/tcs_difference/innovation/tcs_labs/Pages/default.aspx#mumbai |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105134325/http://www.tcs.com/about/tcs_difference/innovation/tcs_labs/Pages/default.aspx#mumbai |archive-date=2009-01-05 |website=tcs.com}}

TCS' Co-Innovation Network partners include Collabnet, Cassatt, foreign academic institutions such as Stanford University, MIT, various IITs, and venture capitalists like Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.{{Cite web |title=The TCS Co-Innovation Network (COIN) |url=http://www.tcs.com/about/tcs_difference/innovation/network/Pages/default.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426014834/http://www.tcs.com/about/tcs_difference/innovation/network/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=2009-04-26}}

References

Category:Software companies of India

Category:Tata Consultancy Services

Category:Tata institutions

Category:Research institutes in Pune

Category:Research institutes established in 1981

Category:1981 establishments in Maharashtra