IT Trends :: Thursday, June 1, 2006

  • 06/01/06

Deals, Contracts, Awards

Dell Donates $50 million to UT

Wow. The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation just gave $50 million to the University of Texas, where he created the Dell company out of his dorm room, shortly before dropping out. Projects include a $67 million Dell Computer Science Hall on the main UT campus ($10 million of which comes from this particular recent gift), a new pediatric health research center, and a new computer science facility… (The Daily Texan)

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U of Illinois CIO to Lead Information Technology at Davis

Peter Siegel "reorganized [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's] central computing, educational technologies, classroom technologies, computer labs, data, and voice communications units into an integrated information technologies and educational services unit," this article says. Now he will take his expertise to the University of California Davis, which boasts an annual $32 million budget and employs 275 people in the Informational and Educational Technology department… (HPCwire)

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