IBM University Programs and Academic Initiative

IBM is working with thousands of universities around the globe to develop students with business and technology skills for a Smarter Planet. Our many University Programs include Ph.D. fellowships, faculty and university awards, as well as impressive Research collaborations. In addition, IBM's Academic Initiative provides schools with access to course materials, training, books and more.

*News releases*
Date	Title
17 May 2012	First Academic Case Competition Proposes Novel Ways to Put IBM Watson to Work
27 Mar 2012	Rutgers Teams With IBM to Build Powerful High-Performance Computing Center in New Jersey
21 Dec 2011	IBM Advances Analytics Skills Program To Universities Globally
08 Dec 2011	More Than 1,000 Schools Help Graduates Get Jobs By Teaching the IBM System z Mainframe
08 Dec 2011	Analytics Goes to the Head of the Class at Northwestern University; Two New Masters Degree Programs Prepare Students for Next Generation Careers
05 Dec 2011	Energy Aid Founded by IBM and Practical Action Launches to Provide Universal Energy Access
17 Nov 2011	IBM Watson Visits Stanford and UC Berkeley to Engage the Next Generation of Leaders
15 Nov 2011	IT Professionals Predict Watson Technology To Transform Education Industry
08 Nov 2011	IBM Software Aids Research Aimed at Extending Seniors' Independent Living
08 Nov 2011	NCAR Advances Weather Research Capabilities With IBM Supercomputing Technology
08 Nov 2011	IBM and MIT Sloan Management Review: Corporate Culture Key to Success with Analytics
31 Oct 2011	Twitter Fans Crown Josh Hamilton World Series “Social MVP” Says IBM and USC Annenberg Social Sentiment Index
31 Oct 2011	IBM Watson Heads to Harvard, MIT to Explore Future of Technology in Business
27 Oct 2011	IBM and Georgia Institute of Technology Partner on “One Million Healthy Children” Project
19 Oct 2011	Fordham University Launches Center for Digital Transformation; Forms Partnership with IBM to Educate Students in Next-Generation Business Analytics
19 Oct 2011	IBM and USC Annenberg Using Analytics to Catch Major League Baseball Fan Sentiment on Social Media
13 Oct 2011	IBM Joins European Consortium to Build a Smart Grid Using Renewable Energy
07 Oct 2011	IBM Launches University Competition to Combat Growth of Non-Communicable Diseases
04 Oct 2011	Mayor Emanuel Announces IBM Grant to Reinvigorate Chicago's K-12 Schools and City Colleges, Help Increase Student Readiness for 21st Century Jobs
13 Sep 2011	IBM and University of Antioquia Cooperate to Seek Drug for Leishmaniasis Treatment
24 Aug 2011	Made in IBM Labs: New Flood Prediction Technology Simulates Rivers 100x Faster than Real Time
29 Jul 2011	University of Louisville Collaborates With IBM to Speed Scientific Breakthroughs
20 Jul 2011	IBM Awards Grants to Help Build a Smarter Planet
08 Jul 2011	IBM and ETH Zurich Use Cloud Computing to Combat Increasingly Resistant Bacteria
30 Jun 2011	IBM and University of Ghana Sign Collaboration Agreement to Support Skills Development and IT Growth
24 Jun 2011	IBM Takes University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to the Cloud
09 Jun 2011	IBM and Tulane University Usher in a New Era for Smarter Buildings in New Orleans
02 Jun 2011	New IBM Cloud Services to Address Education Challenges
23 May 2011	IBM Donates Top Undergraduate Computing Capability to Union College
20 May 2011	IBM Opens New Missouri Facility to Deliver Technology Services
18 May 2011	IBM, University of Rhode Island Partner to Improve Academic Research
17 May 2011	IBM and ETH Zurich Open Collaborative Nanotechnology Center
11 May 2011	ICM Selects IBM to Fuel National Science
05 May 2011	Students Worldwide To Collaborate On Projects To Improve Cities, Transportation and Health Care
28 Apr 2011	Yale School of Management and IBM Collaborate to Prepare Students with Analytics Skills for the Next Generation of Jobs
13 Apr 2011	IBM, Caltrans and UC Berkeley Aim to Help Commuters Avoid Congested Roadways Before their Trip Begins
30 Mar 2011	IBM Watson Goes to School to Engage Next Generation of Innovators
23 Mar 2011	City University of New York and IBM to Reduce Energy Consumption in Public School Buildings
23 Mar 2011	IBM brings technology expertise to Australia’s first Smart Transport Research Centre
10 Mar 2011	IBM Launches Global Bootcamps to Help Companies Tackle Big Data Challenges
04 Mar 2011	IBM Business Analytics Software Helps BJC Healthcare and Washington University Improve Healthcare Through Better Research
28 Feb 2011	IBM Works With McMaster University to Create First Canadian Energy-Smart Buildings on Campus
17 Feb 2011	IBM to Collaborate with Nuance to Apply IBM’s "Watson" Analytics Technology to Healthcare
11 Feb 2011	IBM Announces Eight Universities Contributing to the Watson Computing System's Development
31 Jan 2011	IBM Fuels Social Business Adoption With Partner and Academic Skills Initiative
28 Jan 2011	European Research Consortium to Pilot Digital Privacy Solutions at University and Secondary School
31 Jan 2011	IBM to Expand U.S. Investment in Entrepreneurs
20 Jan 2011	Mayor Bloomberg Launches NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center
22 Nov 2010	European Union Consortium Launches Advanced Cloud Computing Project With Hospital and Smart Power Grid Provider
19 Nov 2010	Report: IBM Supercomputers Are Most Energy Efficient in the World
16 Nov 2010	IBM Research Teams With Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to Make Power Grids Smarter
26 Oct 2010	IBM Analytics Helps Medical Researchers Detect Complication In Stroke Patients
22 Oct 2010	IBM Delivers New Mobile Software for Smarter Maintenance of Cities, Campuses and Businesses
22 Oct 2010	IBM Smarter Cities Initiative Earns John Jay College of Criminal Justice Award for Corporate Leadership
19 Oct 2010	The W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness Awards Samuel Palmisano, President, Chairman and CEO of the IBM Corporation, The Deming Cup
15 Oct 2010	National Smarter-Car Research Network Established at McMaster University
14 Oct 2010	New IBM Global R&D Lab to Open In Australia
13 Oct 2010	Jordan University of Science and Technology Partners with IBM to Build New Cloud Computing Centre
13 Oct 2010	IBM and Universiti Brunei Darussalam to Collaborate on Climate Modeling Research
04 Oct 2010	IBM, Delft University of Technology Collaborate on Smarter Water Research
04 Oct 2010	IBM Launches First Smarter Planet Game to Tackle City Challenges
01 Oct 2010	IBM and Schneider Electric Team to Make Buildings Smarter
23 Sep 2010	IBM Opens Three New Analytics Centers in Europe
17 Sep 2010	The Government of Lithuania and IBM Announce Research Partnership
16 Sep 2010	Chiang Mai University and Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital Work With IBM To Build Medical Hub to Serve Northern Region of Thailand
09 Sep 2010	Entrepreneurs in Smart Transportation and Healthcare Win SmartCamp Silicon Valley and Backing from IBM
07 Sep 2010	The Nature Conservancy and IBM Launch Program for Sustaining Watersheds
25 Aug 2010	IBM and EU Partner to Enable the Digitization of Historic European Texts on a Massive Scale
11 Aug 2010	IBM Helps North Carolina State University Address 'Big Data' Challenge to Bring Innovative Technologies to Market
04 Aug 2010	IBM and IIT Bombay to Collaborate on Mobile Web Research
02 Aug 2010	IBM and University of Aberdeen Collaborate to Identify Molecules from the Deep Sea
29 Jul 2010	IBM Opens the First Multipurpose Cloud Computing Center in Poland
29 Jul 2010	IBM and Carnegie Mellon University to Create Smarter Infrastructure Lab
28 Jul 2010	IBM and UPMC Partner to Make 'Smart' Patient Room Even Smarter
15 Jul 2010	Peking University People’s Hospital Partners with IBM to Build China’s First Evidence-Based Patient Centric Care System
07 Jul 2010	IBM and European Union Join to Develop New Collaborative e-Business Model Extending Open Source and Cloud Technologies
07 Jul 2010	IBM Research and European Union Collaborate to Bolster Reliability of Complex Systems
02 Jul 2010	Italy's University of Bari Uses IBM System z Cloud to Help Local Fisherman Auction Day's Catch While Still at Sea
02 Jul 2010	MADE IN IBM LABS: IBM Hot Water-Cooled Supercomputer Goes Live at ETH Zurich
02 Jul 2010	IBM Partners with University of Missouri on Genomics Research Initiative
16 Jun 2010	DePaul University and IBM Team to Launch New Center for Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
01 Jun 2010	Texas A&M Teams with IBM to Speed Drug Discovery for Tuberculosis
14 May 2010	IBM and McMaster University Collaborate on "Smarter Transportation" Research
14 May 2010	IBM and University of Central Florida Team to Prepare Graduates for High-Growth Technology Jobs
03 May 2010	IBM Unveils New "Serious Game" To Tackle Urban Challenges
21 Apr 2010	Columbia University and IBM Connect to Prepare Students With Resources and Skills for the Growing Green Job Market
16 Apr 2010	IBM Helps City of Stockholm Predict Better Commuting Options
15 Apr 2010	University of Ottawa and IBM Create New Analytics Research Center
08 Apr 2010	IBM and Tanzanian Government Sign Collaboration Agreement
10 Feb 2010	IBM Launches Academic Cloud to Speed Delivery of Technology Skills to College Students
05 Feb 2010	Students of Shanghai Jiaotong University Crowned World Champions of the IBM-Sponsored 'Battle of the Brains'
09 Dec 2009	Fordham University and IBM Launch Curriculum to Prepare Students with Business Analytics Skills
02 Dec 2009	IBM Invests $27 Million Over Five Years to Train Syracuse University Students On Smart Data Center Technologies
02 Dec 2009	Syracuse University, IBM, New York State Launch One of the World's Greenest Data Centers
02 Dec 2009	University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute Receives IBM Shared University Research Award
20 Nov 2009	Brown, IBM Unveil Multimillion-Dollar Supercomputer
19 Nov 2009	UMBC Researchers Use IBM Technology to Fight Rising Threats of Forest Fires
04 Nov 2009	IBM Advances Cloud Computing in Education; Unveils IBM Cloud Academy
17 Aug 2009	IBM Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards
12 Aug 2009	Nicholls State University Teams with IBM to Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future
29 Jul 2009	Students See into the Future during IBM Jam; Faculty and Students from 40 Countries Collaborate with IBM to Build a Smarter Planet
12 Jun 2009	IBM Scientists Directly Measure Charge States of Atoms Using an Atomic Force Microscope
03 Jun 2009	Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics Collaborates with IBM In Large Scale Study of “Space Weather”
27 May 2009	IBM and Poland's Wroclaw Research Center Sign Joint Research Collaboration
27 May 2009	UNC Health Care and IBM Speed Development of Disease Treatments
26 May 2009	IBM Launches Vietnam Innovation Center to Fuel Technology Growth
22 May 2009	IBM Helps Ling Tung University Build System to Monitor and Analyze Patients' Health at Home
05 May 2009	IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments
23 Apr 2009	National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research
22 May 2009	IBM and Bulgarian Government in Partnership in Nanoscience
21 Apr 2009	Students of St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics Crowned World Champions of the IBM-sponsored 'Battle of the Brains'
17 Apr 2009	Kogakuin University in Japan Manages Next-Gen Infrastructure with Public Cloud Services from IBM
13 Apr 2009	IBM Collaborating With Hundreds of Universities Driving Curriculum Change for a Smarter Planet
05 Apr 2009	University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine Joins IBM to Build a Community-Wide Medical Home Healthcare Delivery Model for the Greater Tulsa Area
30 Mar 2009	Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute and IBM Launch Smart Grid Framework
18 Mar 2009	The Catholic University of Goiás Selects IBM to Improve the Availability of Its IT Environment
17 Mar 2009	UC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrow's Virtual Worlds
12 Mar 2009	IBM and Marist Survey Shows U.S. College Students Want Technology Skills to Compete for Jobs
25 Feb 2009	IBM Academic Program for System z Enterprise Server Skills Now Deployed at Approximately 550 Schools Worldwide
23 Feb 2009	IBM Delivers Software to Ontario Universities via Cloud Computing
13 Jan 2009	MSU Named Home to IBM Global Delivery Center
18 Dec 2008	New Consortium to Fuel Breakthrough Collaborative Information Technology Growth and Build Next Generation Skills in South Carolina
08 Dec 2008	IBM and Researchers From Harvard Launch Project to Discover Lower Cost, More Efficient Solar Cells
02 Dec 2008	IBM And DeVry University Launch New Enterprise Computing Track
20 Nov 2008	IBM Seeks to Build the Computer of the Future Based on Insights from the Brain
12 Nov 2008	New Ph.D. Fellowships and Faculty Awards Honor Legendary IBM Employees
29 Oct 2008	IBM and University of Saskatchewan Accelerate Research to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
24 Oct 2008	North Carolina State University and IBM Extend Access to Educational Resources to the World Through Cloud Computing
22 Sep 2008	IBM Teams With Universities in California, Illinois and China to Help Students Prepare for Careers in Business and IT
18 Sep 2008	Egyptian Government and IBM Initiatives to Develop Scientific Research, University Curriculum and IT Exports
15 Sep 2008	IBM, Government and Higher Education Institutions Launch Service Science Initiative in Malaysia
03 Sep 2008	IBM Delivers Resources to Help Educators Prepare Students for IT Jobs

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IBM Watson Makes the Grade

Date added: 17 May 2012

In Rochester, New York, Christian Beck (left) and Jamiee Saxton (right), students of the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester are winners of the IBM Watson case competition for their proposal on crisis and disaster management. Students from the school submitted new ideas for applying the IBM Watson technology to address complex societal and business challenges in the transportation, energy, retail and public sector industries. The competition is helping students gain new skills in analytics and cognitive computing to prepare for future career opportunities. (Matt Wittmeyer/Feature Photo Service for IBM)

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AP Fordham Watson

Date added: 05 May 2011

Fordham University students Abhishek Mehra, left, and Allison Murray, right, join Fordham Prof. R.P. Raghupathi, center, winner of an IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Award, to discuss how university students around the world are working on projects to improve cities, transportation and healthcare. Since it bested Jeopardy! quiz show champs in February, IBM Watson has captured the attention of students around the world. By bringing Watson-like technologies into the classroom, IBM and the winning faculty members are sparking innovation and encouraging students to look at society's tough challenges from a fresh perspective. (Bob Goldberg/Feature Photo Service for IBM)

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