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Satellite Interactive Terminal Education Network: The department also maintains a nationwide Satellite Interactive Terminal Education Network setup by the Anna University, Chennai for the benefit of its students Partnerships: The department has signed MoUs with industries for consultancy projects and Government funded R&D projects in the current IT trends such as Object Recognition, Product Defect Classification, etc. The research areas include Data Mining and Warehousing, Distributed Computing and Grid Computing, Text, Image and Web Mining, Embedded Systems and Cloud Computing Research and Development: The department of Information Technology promotes one-of-its- kind focused interest groups to facilitate fundamental core computing research. The groups include: Data Structures and Algorithms Group Network & Protocol Architecture Group Operating Systems Group Mathematical Computation Group Compiler Design Group Web Technology Group Google Apps Developers Group