The IBM Eclipse Innovation Award program is an international award competition for faculty designed
to encourage the use of open source and open standards-based tools for academic curricula and research.
Between 2003-2006, IBM provided over 270 awards for the purpose of furthering teaching, research,
and community building around the Eclipse environment.
Eclipse is an open universal platform for tool integration that has an extensible Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
As part of the open source community, the Eclipse technology is royalty-free. Eclipse-based tools give developers freedom
of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment and run on many operating systems, including
Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and Mac OS. They offer significant value to researchers and educators, by providing
an industrial-strength infrastructure for conducting research and developing curricula in many areas of computer science
and computer engineering.
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