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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4798)	6/30/1999 5:14:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Software Engineering Institute branches out to India. Software Engg Institute to set up arm in Bangalore Asha Rai BANGALORE 30 JUNE INDIA has won the battle to house the prestigious Software Engineering Institute's first regional campus outside the United States, beating a host of other contenders. And, Bangalore has become the obvious choice for its location. SEI, which is part of the Carnegie Mellon University, offers, among other services, the prestigious capability maturity model (CMM), the world's most sought-after software quality certification. The Indian campus will be located in Bangalore's Electronics City. The project will be a joint venture between a consortium of Indian Institute of Science, Government of Karnataka and LG Soft India and the Centre for Information Systems Engineering (CISE), part of the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute for the establishment of 'Regional Centre for Information Systems Engineering (R-CISE ) — Asia-Pacific'. The Bangalore R-CISE is expected to serve as a virtual extension of SEI. While the memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the project was finalised during the recent US visit of Sanjoy Das Gupta, secretary of information technology, Karnataka, a CMU team is expected to arrive in Bangalore in September to finalise the modalities. However, the Indian campus will not be known as 'SEI' for technical reasons — SEI is a US government-funded R&D centre, with its work primarily meant for that country's defence department. ''We would not like the Indian arm to limit itself to software engineering alone. We would like the institute to do major software development works,” said Prof N Balakrishnan, head of Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, IISc. CMU had set up CISE in November '97 to focus on the technologies developed at SEI and to help in the global adaptation of SEI's CMM and personal software process (PSP). Karnataka's contribution to the project would be in the form of providing physical resources (land), while IISc would provide intellectual resources, said senior officials in the state government. LGSI is expected to provide the initial corpus of a couple of million dollars. The initial capital requirement has been pegged at Rs 20 crore, and the institute will be raising its own resources.R-CISE will be providing consulting services, assessment, audit and certification services, training and educational services, development of computer-based training modules and tools, licensing of CMM/ CISE/SEI products, localisation/ regionalisation of SMM/CISE-SEI products and services. Its Indian operations would be sustained through a programme entailing continuous dissemination and transfer of critical intellectual capital and implementation experience in software engineering from the CMU. According to the draft MoU, R-CISE is to develop a symbiotic relationship with appropriate academic, government and industry organisations in the country. India has been chosen for SEI's regional presence on account of its large and credible growth in software industry; its position as the home of second largest pool of English speak scientific and engineering talent; its average growth rate of 55 per cent in software industry and its status as the base for over two lakh engineers. economictimes.com