Carnegie Mellon Signs Technology Deal With Portugal

Carnegie Mellon University and Portugal’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education announced plans on Friday for a long-term research and education collaboration in information and communication technologies. According to a news release issued by the university, the deal will emphasize information processing and networks as well as related areas of applied mathematics, technology, and policy. The agreement, which also will create an Information and Communication Technologies Institute, with locations in both Portugal and Pittsburgh, follows a similar collaboration, announced two weeks ago, between Portugal and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.