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Last, but not least, the CIT has acquired three Cell Broadband Engines (it is one of only 4 sites outside the USA with such technology) which are being used to investigate their performance in speeding up oil exploration and seismic applications.
CIT has also boosted its investment in backend technologies including networking and VOIP, by working with leading vendors like Nortel, Foundry, Fujitsu Siemens and Tandberg.
Education and research go hand in hand
CIT has been focused on driving research in education, an objective that cuts through all activities that the college gets involved in. "From the ground up there was always support for R&D and we have gone all out to hire the best faculty. Today we have faculty members from the best institutions in the world. Of the 70 current members, 50 are doctorates while the rest hold masters degree along with extensive industry experience," says Rafic Makki, Dean of CIT.
The college has also been focusing its energies on applied research and has a team of developers as well to support the initiative to take ideas from concept to product.
Among the key projects on hand is the United Nations environmental program along with Abu Dhabi environmental agency to develop a geo portal for West Asia.
A geo portal has environmental data which can be utilized by scientists for research. Decision makers can also make use of information from these portals while making critical decisions from an environmental point of view.
All these innovations are being enabled by in-house research and built using non-branded products. One of our big successful projects was the 'Smart Box', the first telemetric safety device for cars, similar to the black box found in aircraft, which can capture, analyze and deliver relevant data via a wireless network. With its primary objective to curb road accidents and reduce traffic injuries and fatalities, the device -- using multiple microprocessors based on power architecture, plus a multitude of other sensors -- can be attached to the automobile's carriage to, for example, monitor the vehicle's speed, comparing it to the speed limit of the street.
The box, which is not much larger than a typical PDA, leverages a number of specific software applications, including Global Positioning System and IBM's award-winning speech software, Via Voice, Bluetooth and open standards communication interfaces. This was the first hi-tech device to be developed having commercial value.
Another interesting project which is being submitted for funding is GENIArabia. Gearing up for an investment of about $10 million into the project, CIT is proposing to establish GENI Arabia as a networking and information security research center connected to and part of the GENI network. GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovation) is an experimental facility being planned by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), in collaboration with the research community, for the purpose of providing a research infrastructure to enable the development of the future internet.
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