IT Trends :: Thursday, August 17, 2006

Deals, Contracts, Awards

UC Joins Google Book Project

Add the University of California to the list of schools (including Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and the University of Michigan) participating in Google's controversial Book Search project. UC's 100 libraries constitute the largest academic research library in the world. UC is already a part of Yahoo and Microsoft's book scanning operations, which is called the Open Content Alliance…

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IBM Alliance with University Aims to Make Students Mainframe- and Linux-Savvy

The partnership between IBM and Pace University's School of Computer Science and Information Systems will deepen its scope this year with seminars, lectures, workshops, and student visits to IBM labs and manufacturing facilities in upstate New York. The efforts are to ultimately provide New York City (where Pace is located) employers with a more educated, experienced workforce…

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