Read a sampling of IBM announcements, statements, news releases and other featured stories in schools and higher education.
Education news
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IBM and Pike County School have signed an enhanced internet access agreement to provide Virtual Infrastructure Access desktop hosting services to the school district, with IBM providing access service that gives older PCs the ability to access the internet and applications in a manner similar to more current systems. | 14 Jul 2008 |
IBM has announced the opening of new cloud computing centers in South Africa and China Cloud computing enables the delivery of personal and business services from remote centralized servers the cloud that share computing resources and bandwidth to any device anywhere | 24 Jun 2008 |
Georgia State University and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced that the university has purchased an IBM System Cluster 1350 supercomputer through a regional partnership program between IBM and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). | 22 Feb 2008 |
IDG's Computerworld has selected IBM as the top Green IT Company for 2008. This honor is part of Computerworld's very first Top Green IT Companies feature, which was published in the February 18 issue and online at Computerworld.com. | 20 Feb 2008 |
IBM and Illinois State University have announced a new effort to prepare students for jobs of the 21st century. As part of this collaboration, IBM is loaning the long-term use of the latest IBM System z 890 server to the University's College of Applied Science and Technology to build skills on virtualization technologies. | 14 Nov 2007 |
IBM has introduced a new video game designed to help university students and young professionals develop a combination of business and information technology (IT) skills. Thousands of universities around the world now have access to Innov8, IBM's new serious game available at no charge. | 06 Nov 2007 |
What if devices that are important to our daily lives could function continuously, automatically sending vital information to those who could use it to deliver new and valuable services? In such a world, a new panorama of consumer-centric enterprises could emerge. | 24 Jul 2007 |
North Carolina State University (NC State) and IBM have announced that the Virtual Computing Initiative (VCI) is making tools and resources available to students at all educational levels to build 21st century skills, delivering on the promise to promote the universal access of technology. | 07 May 2007 |
IBM is highlighting the momentum of the System i Academic Initiative, which has expanded System i education in colleges and universities to over 25 countries worldwide and is now educating over 20,000 students annually. The milestone was noted as IBM also announced the winners of the System i Innovation challenge. | 03 May 2007 |
At the July 2007 Workshop on Solving Computational Challenges in Medical Imaging, IBM and the University of Washington will show how next-generation technology currently featured in computer entertainment and video-processing platforms is driving advancements in medical imaging. | 30 Mar 2007 |
IBM, Oracle and other leading technology companies and associations have formed a consortium to help create the Service Research and Innovation (SRI) Initiative. Its mission is to increase the amount of funding for service research, development and innovation in the technology industry. | 29 Mar 2007 |
IBM has been selected by the New York City Department of Education to develop the Achievement Reporting and Innovation System (ARIS), a first-of-its-kind data management system that will provide detailed information about student performance and make innovations at one school available to others with similar populations. | 05 Mar 2007 |
IBM has announced a first-of-its-kind programming contest for college and university students in 25 different countries, offering cash prizes and awards for the most innovative applications of the breakthrough Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.). | 05 Feb 2007 |
IBM has announced that Cardiff University has selected IBM's Virtual Infrastructure Access service product as part of a pioneering agreement with IBM to deliver the Modern IT Working Environment (MWE), the university's largest transformational program to date. | 19 Dec 2006 |
IBM and seven leading U.S. universities have announced new open software research projects under a program designed in conformance with the Open Collaboration Research Principles, a set of guidelines announced previously to help promote an open approach to overcome university-industry intellectual property challenges. | 14 Dec 2006 |
Ana G. Méndez University System has chosen IBM to develop a system that allows students to pay tuition and fees faster and easier. The solution will allow the Puerto Rico university to collect recurring revenues, including registration fees, tuition and health insurance, through in-office cashiers and also online. | 12 Dec 2006 |
IBM has announced the ten universities chosen as winners of the latest IBM Shared University Research awards. For the first time, each university will be using the Cell Broadband Engine technology to enable students and faculty to drive innovation and collaborate to create digital media and medical imaging solutions. | 12 Dec 2006 |
Monash University has selected IBM Lotus software to improve collaboration for its 60,000 staff, students and researchers at multiple campuses and research centers around the world. An integrated combination of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, IBM Lotus Sametime and IBM Lotus QuickPlace beat rival bids. | 29 Nov 2006 |
IBM has introduced a service product that helps businesses utilize virtualization technologies to simplify workplace computing. The new Virtual Infrastructure Access service product enables centralized computing at the server level and provides workers security-rich access to applications, information and resources. | 31 Oct 2006 |
IBM and The University of Arizona have announced a new collaborative initiative to develop a course aimed at helping developers build online communities and social network systems using Web 2.0 technologies. The curriculum is designed to equip students with skills in the creation and management of online communities. | 19 Oct 2006 |
IBM has announced the first open source-based, global, hosted e-learning service for higher education and K-12 institutions. The IBM Open Education Service: Collaborative Learning Edition is an online environment based on an open source application created through the use of freely accessible and distributed code. | 09 Oct 2006 |
Rice University and IBM today announced they will collaborate on the development of an open-standards-based, service oriented architecture (SOA) that will help higher education institutions tie together their increasingly diverse academic software applications. | 06 Oct 2006 |
IBM and Georgetown University have announced two new curricula to address the growing demand for information technology (IT) skills that can empower an organization to more rapidly respond to changing marketplace conditions. Both of the new programs are designed to teach all students about service oriented architectures. | 14 Sep 2006 |
IBM has announced new software and resources to help customers leverage their investments in open source development tools and resources. The new offerings will help software development teams build Eclipse-based open integrated development environments that are technologically diverse and vendor neutral. | 07 Sep 2006 |
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has selected IBM to design and build the world's first supercomputer to harness the immense power of the Cell Broadband Engine™ processor aiming to produce a machine capable of a sustained speed of up to 1,000 trillion calculations per second. | 06 Sep 2006 |
IBM has announced a program to equip university computer science majors with the technical skills to develop or adapt computer programs for people with disabilities, the maturing population, and non-native language speakers, so that they can more easily access, navigate and use the Web and electronic office documents. | 24 Aug 2006 |
IBM UNIX-based systems are expected to double the current capacity of one of the nation's most innovative grid initiatives, uniting resources from 27 institutions in fifteen states, to increase dramatically its research capabilities -- from modeling coastal storm surges to advanced genome sequencing. | 11 Aug 2006 |
IBM has joined forces with Aradyme to help state education reporting agencies comply with No Child Left Behind and other reporting requirements. This solution combines Aradyme's Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) solution for state education reporting with IBM's data warehouse offering, IBM Insight at School. | 26 Jul 2006 |
IBM has donated e-learning software code to the Sakai Project, a group of learning institutions creating and deploying open-source course management, collaboration and online research support tools for higher education. IBM developed the donated code exclusively for Sakai to enable the tracking of learning content. | 11 Jul 2006 |
The rSmart Group, a leading open source application software company serving education, will team with IBM in support of the Kuali Financial System. The Kuali Foundation creates software that provides a comprehensive suite of functionality to serve the financial systems needs of all levels of colleges and universities. | 10 Jul 2006 |
