The MIT-Microsoft Alliance
“Graduate student Eric Brittain is designing a system to make it easier for students in classrooms to communicate in real time with their instructors during lectures. Using a small, wireless device…”
Denise Brehm, Tech Talk, MIT News Office, December 13, 2000
Original Link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2000/dec13/icampus.html (No longer active)
“A portable mobile workstation the size of a PalmPilot and a cryptographically secure MIT Card are among the six proposals that have been chosen by the MIT/Microsoft I-Campus Joint Steering Committee for further funding consideration. Twenty proposals were submitted….”
Naveen Sunkavally, The Tech, February 2, 2000
“Project I-Campus, the MIT-Microsoft alliance for research in educational technology, has begun issuing calls for proposals from the MIT community…”
Rebecca Bisbee, iCampus Project Administrator, Tech Talk, November 24, 1999
Original link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1999/nov24/icampus.html (No longer active)
“The MIT/Microsoft alliance began accepting research proposals Monday to distribute the up to $25 million in research funds associated with project I-Campus…”
Dana Levine, The Tech, November 23, 1999
“As the next step in the Microsoft/MIT I-Campus Alliance, the Microsoft/MIT Joint Steering Committee will be asking for proposals from faculty and students in early December, said Project I-Campus Codirector Harold Abelson PhD ’73, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science…”
Karen Robinson and Rima Arnaout, The Tech, November 3, 1999
“MIT shocked the community with the announcement of an industrial partnership with Microsoft Corporation Wednesday. The initiative, called I-Campus, involves a 25 million contribution from Microsoft over the next five years. In return, MIT offers access to its faculty and research facilities….”
Rima Arnaout, The Tech, October 10, 1999
“MIT and Microsoft Corp. have unveiled an ambitious alliance to enhance university education through information technology….”
Tech Talk, October 6, 1999
Original Link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1999/oct06/microsoft.html (No longer active)
“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Microsoft Corp. today unveiled an ambitious alliance to conduct research and create new technologies that will improve information technology-enabled teaching models and educational tools for university education….”
MIT News Office, October 5, 1999