Google Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are donating software and computers to six U.S. universities, part of a plan to support student programmers.
The companies have provided hundreds of their old servers to computer-science departments at the schools, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University in California, according to a joint statement today.
Google, owner of the world's largest Internet search engine, and IBM, the biggest computer-services company, are encouraging undergraduate students to build their own Web applications, giving them a better understanding of technology as they prepare to enter the workforce.
``It unleashes a whole new group of designers who will use the Web as a computing platform,'' Willy Chiu, a vice president at Armonk, New York-based IBM, said in an interview.
The project also involves the University of Washington in Seattle, Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Maryland in College Park. The number of colleges could increase to 60 worldwide, Chiu said.
Google shares climbed $15.02, or 2.6 percent, to $594.05 on Oct. 5 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. IBM rose 61 cents to $116.30 on the New York Stock Exchange.
The companies began a partnership earlier this year when IBM agreed to add Google functions such as maps and YouTube video clips to its programs for office workers. Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) --
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