The Academic Industry Partnership (IAP) is a forum that encourages research, development and innovation by bringing together industry partners and academia to pursue hot topics in applications and infrastructure, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, hardware acceleration, operating systems, networking, data security, data storage and management – All within the framework of distributed systems – from giant data centers to small IoT devices at the edge of the cloud. particle for direct body IAP hosts workshops and webinars on campus with academic and industry experts to discuss their work and generate new ideas and activities