Virginia Tech and Facebook have signed an agreement that will remove barriers and make it easier to work together on future research projects.
It’s one of 17 such arrangements, called sponsored academic research agreements, that Facebook executive Regina Dugan announced Wednesday.
Other participating institutions include Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
In a Facebook post announcing the news, Dugan wrote that the partnerships should allow her team to find university researchers and get to work solving high-tech problems in a matter of weeks, instead of months or years.
