SEDA SErvicios de Desarrollo Avanzados para Laboratorios Industriales

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SEDASErvicios de Desarrollo Avanzadospara
Laboratorios Industriales
Cipriano Santos Senior Scientist, HP Laboratories
24th Jornada Informativa del IME Ciudad de
Mexico, 6 Junio, 2005
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SEDA Mission

• Optimal matching of HPL researchers with
  professors/students at a network of Mexican
  Universities to bridge the gap between RD at HP
  Lab and HP business requirements

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Challenges of an industrial laboratory

• Tech Transfer
• Difficult to translate lab prototypes or proof of
  concepts into workable material that business
  groups can understand, productize, maintain and
  support
• Need to bridge the gap between RD at a Lab and
  business requirements S
• Limited resources
• Cost pressures to reduce RD spending
• Too many generals with very few soldiers
• University RD
• Industrial lab requires specialized and skilled
  human capital. This may only be available at
  universities
• RD at an industrial lab is not necessarily
  aligned with research goals of universities
• IP issues between Lab and University
• National Security issues
• Transferring RD to Asia present potential
  threats to U.S national security.

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Network of Mexican Universities Providing Advance
development Services

• Players
• HP Labs researchers with advance development
  requirements
• Several Lab directors sponsors
• UNISON -Prof. Pedro Flores, UNAM - Ing. Jorge
  Gil, Tecnologico de Monterrey -Prof. Fernando
  Jaimes,
• Fumec Fundacion Mexicano Americana para la
  Ciencia
• Dr Raul Carvajal
• Initial funding
• HP Labs resources Internship programs, RD
  investments
• Additional Funding
• Conacyt (scholarships programa nacional de
  investigadores)
• Mexican state governments (Sonora, Jalisco,
  Monterrey)
• Long term sustainability.
• Techba supports a network of Mexican enterprises
  derived from network of Mexican universities
  providing advance development services for
  different technology niches.

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Benefits

• Benefits to HPL
• Time zone at most 2 hours difference
• Allows real time collaboration
• Response time is in hours, not days
• At most 4 hours flying from/to Mexico to Palo
  Alto
• Advance development services from Mexico satisfy
  HPL scarce resource needs
• Development costs comparable with Asia
• Benefits to Mexico
• increase RD efforts in the country, therefore
  increased knowledge assets
• Job generation through spin-offs from Network of
  Mexican Universities
• Keep engineering and scientific talent in Mexico
• Attracts U.S industrial laboratories to invest
  and build RD in Mexico

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SEDA Current status

• Norman Salazar Pedro Flores student
• 9 months internship at HPLabs
• Two invention disclosures submitted
• One patent application in preparation
• Co-author of papers SIGMETRICS ACM performance
  analysis, SPAA ACM Symposium on parallel
  algorithms architectures , DNIS Databases in
  Networked Information Systems, HP Open View
  University Association Workshop
• Code transfer to a product of HP
• Code to be integrated into a management platform
  or standalone
• Worked in 3 different projects of IETL and ISSL
• More students of Pedro Flores arriving at HP Labs
• Ernesto Brau
• Caleb Lizarraga and soon two more

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SEDA organization

• People roles, processes, responsibilities and
  accountability
• medical insurance, visas, re-location logistics
  travel and housing, computer accounts, office,
  computer, badges, HP IP and Confidentiality
  protection everything that is required by the
  students to work.
• Residency
• U.S Full time,
• working remotely from Mexico with several visits
  to HPL.
• SEDA Funding.
• SEDA Website to enable matching
• SEDA membership
• SEDA metrics of performance
• SEDA quality control

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Questions ?