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Hewlett-Packard to open Russia facility
2007-01-22
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday it plans to open a research and development facility in St. Petersburg, Russia, that will employ dozens of researchers and focus on inventing ways to manage and mine digital data. The Russian center will be HP's seventh R&D center around the world operated under the umbrella of HP Labs, the Palo Alto-based company's central research organization. HP Labs was founded more than 40 years ago and has claimed breakthroughs in areas as diverse as pocket calculators, semiconductor devices, thermal ink jet printing and nanotechnology. Its other facilities are in China, India, the United Kingdom, Israel and Japan. HP declined to say how much it was spending on the new facility, which will be located in the company's existing sales facility in St. Petersburg. Beth Keer, director of the company's Information Services and Process Innovation Lab, will initially oversee the project as acting director while searching for a full-time director and research staff. Keer said the new facility will allow HP to tap into a pool of Russian scientists with a rigorous academic background and help local customers solve region-specific problems arising from fast-growing industries including oil and gas exploration, telecommunications and banking. The research could help companies, for example, mine customer data they've already collected and understand how to better improve their products based on their tastes. "It's really important for us to be where our customers are, and where the scientific talent is," Keer said.
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