International IBM Research Prize for Fraunhofer FOKUS

Fraunhofer FOKUS is gaining laurels for its research activities regarding the electronic safe for data and documents. On 15th December in Berlin Erwin Jung, director of IBM Science Relations, has awarded Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin with the International Shared University Research (SUR) Grant, which included prize money of 50,000 US dollars. IBM appreciates the efforts of Fraunhofer FOKUS on the project „elektronic safe“. The partners are targeting the conception and realization of a virtual safe for personal data and digital documents. The SUR points out the good collaboration between IBM and Fraunhofer FOKUS since the project started in April 2009.