A Short History Of Collaboration, Innovation And Education In Research
Red Hat News, Thursday, June 8,2023
In 2017, Red Hat Chairman Paul Cormier and Boston University (BU) professor Orran Krieger helped spearhead a collaborative partnership between the two institutions that would come to include expanding Red Hat's participation in the MOC Alliance, the establishment of the Red Hat Collaboratory at BU for research incubation, and the creation of a Red Hat OpenShift Data Science environment at BU for open source education resources. The Red Hat Research team has been managing Red Hat's relationship with BU since the team's inception in 2018.
To celebrate the fifth year of Red Hat Research and the research quarterly, RHRQ editor Shaun Strohmer sat down with Paul and Orran to look back at how and why this partnership formed and its impact on education and the tech industry. They had plenty to say about changes in computing environments, what computer science education needs today, and why open source is the cornerstone of innovation.