Smarter Education

IBM is collaborating with thousands of educational institutions, organizations, and communities around the globe to develop students with the skills for a 21st century services and knowledge-based economy. IBM solutions, which embrace technologies such as cloud computing, open source systems, virtualization, and analytics, are helping clients transform educational systems -- making them more interconnected to access and share resources, instrumented to gather key data, and intelligent to enable innovation and smarter decision-making.

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IBM Education: Open minds. Open access. Open education.

Blog: Jai Menon, vice president of technical strategy and university programs, IBM, talks about the fascinating results of the 2009 Smarter Planet University Jam.

Listed below in Audio are our two most recent podcasts --- a summary of each provided immediately below:

Podcast: Jamming for a Smarter Planet - A discussion of the surprising insights gained from the 2009 Smarter Planet University Jam. Interview with Jai Menon, VP, Technical Strategy and Global Leader of University Programs, and Ravi Nemana, top faculty contributor to the Jam and Executive Director of SSME at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at UC-Berkeley.

Podcast: An interview with Dr. Ismail Ari, top faculty contributor to the Smarter Planet University Jam and assistant professor of electrical engineering at Ozyegin University in Istanbul, Turkey.

*Press releases*
Date	Title
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	University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute Receives IBM Shared University Research Award
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
12 Oct 2009	IBM and ACM-ICPC Announce Global 'Battle of the Brains' Software Competition
18 Sep 2009	IBM Program To Help Students Gain Critical Mainframe Skills Grows To More Than 600 Universities
16 Sep 2009	IBM, Shenyang, and Northeastern University Collaborate to Create Smart, Eco-City
08 Sep 2009	IBM and Michigan State University Open Delivery Center
02 Sep 2009	IBM and Metropolitan Community College of Omaha Collaborate on First Green Data Center Degree
12 Aug 2009	Nicholls State University Teams with IBM to Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future
11 Aug 2009	IBM Analytics Expands To Help Governments Around World Build Smarter Systems
30 Jul 2009	IBM's Smarter Planet Framework to Aid Nepal's Vision For 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
18 Jun 2009	IBM Supercomputer at University of Toronto is Canada's Most Powerful
29 May 2009	IBM, Syracuse University, New York State to Build One of the World's Most Energy-Efficient Data Centers
23 Apr 2009	National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research
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
12 Mar 2009	IBM and Marist Survey Shows U.S. College Students Want Technology Skills to Compete for Jobs
23 Feb 2009	IBM Delivers Software to Ontario Universities via Cloud Computing
08 Dec 2008	IBM and Researchers From Harvard Launch Project to Discover Lower Cost, More Efficient Solar Cells
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

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IBM Announces Academic Cloud

Date added: 10 Feb 2010

(l. to r.) Dean Roger Norton, Marist College, with student Carol Hagedorn, and Jim Corgel, general manager of IBM's academic initiative. IBM today announced an academic cloud that will help colleges integrate technology into their curricula.

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