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...joint venture with Microsoft, called "I-Campus," hopes to narrow the gap between educational facilities and major technological firms...
This project comes in the wake of two $20 million private donations given by Microsoft executives Gates and Ballmer, one to MIT and one to Harvard. The money is being used to build new labs for technology research at each school...
Harold Abelson, co-chair of I-Campus, said Microsoft's involvement in this area is different from Gates's and Ballmer's private gifts because it means MIT and Microsoft employees will continue to work together...
...Microsoft's decision to work with MIT on I-Campus is the first of five collaborative projects with universities that it hopes to fund, Abelson says...
Although for the moment, MIT is the bride of choice in this academic-industrial marriage, Microsoft hints that it may find other academic partners in the future. The trade school down the river simply won the honor of being first...