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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — North Carolina State University is among 17 school systems and U.S. and overseas colleges selected to participate in a new cloud computing effort that IBM (NYSE: IBM) is calling the Cloud Academy.
In an announcement made Wednesday at an education conference in Denver, IBM said the program is "a global forum for educators, researchers and information technology (IT) personnel from the education industry to pursue cloud computing initiatives, develop skills and share best practices for reducing operating costs while improving quality and access to education."
Other United States-based institutions in the academy are George Mason University; Georgia State University; Gwinnett County Public Schools; Marist College; New York University; Pike County Schools; The Executive Leadership Foundation's Technology Transfer Project – a collaborative effort for Historically Black Colleges and Universities; and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
International institutions are Beijing University of Technology in China; Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q), Qatar University (QU) and Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) in Qatar; Ecole normale superieure de Lyon in France; Ozyegin University in Turkey; Nanyang Technical University in Singapore; and Victoria University in Australia.
The IBM Cloud Academy will enable these institutions and other participants to collaborate using an IBM-managed cloud, available via the Internet, the company said.
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