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• Apply now for grants to access and use IBM software in the Amazon EC2 cloud

  IBM has partnered with Amazon Web Services to give Academic Initiative members and their students access to select software products in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). For a limited time, members can get grants that will provide up to $100 USD in free usage for each student enrolled in degree-earning courses at accredited institutions. Don't miss out; apply now!
  
  

• Rational Team Concert Express-C — just right for collaborative projects

  Consider the Community Edition of this application lifecycle management product for your courses that require collaborative, distributed software development. It provides full agile practice coverage and support for Subversion, Git, Eclipse and Visual Studio. With a permanent server license and ten free client access licenses, it's great for project teams of ten or fewer students. Remember, full-versions are available to Academic Initaitve members in our Software Catalog.
  
  

• IBM unveils Cloud Academy, a global forum for cloud initiatives in education

  Announced at EDUCAUSE, this new program will help educators and students pursue cloud-computing initiatives and take advantage of collaboration technology in their studies. IBM will provide the cloud-based infrastructure for the program, starting with some basic Lotus collaboration tools. Participants will quickly be able to: create working groups on areas of interest, "jam" on education-related topics, work jointly on technical projects across institutions, and share research findings.
  
  

• Congratulations to our outstanding Academic Initiative members

  Over the past three years we've had the pleasure of honoring Academic Initiative members who have been breaking ground and using IBM products and technologies in innovative ways. Read their stories and let their successes spark your own creative ideas.
  
  

• Apply for an IBM award for X10 research and curriculum innovation

  The 2010 IBM X10 Innovation Awards will recognize a select group of academic research and curricular development activities in the area of computing at scale on cloud computing platforms based on the X10 programming language. This is an ideal opportunity for academic partners to learn, teach and help develop an eco-system built around a modern, open-source suitable for developing applications for parallel architectures. The program will sponsor the development of libraries and application frameworks using X10 for cloud-based applications, as well as other areas of interest, to further develop the X10 ecosystem.
  
  

• Consider serious games for smarter skills and faster learning

  "Gamers" are not just adolescent boys playing video games on the Xbox. Game mechanics and game-based learning are being integrated into everyday applications for a good reason. While students remember 10 percent of what they read, their retention jumps to almost 90 percent if they do something themselves. Find out more about the future of learning.
  
  

• Inspire your students with Grady Booch's "Why Engineering" video

  Grady Booch is an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist for Software Engineering. In this YouTube video he explains the importance of engineering and how it has contributed to many things, from a simple clock to complex software systems for transportation, electrical grids, and health care and genome tracking. He presents engineers as inventors that can change the world.
  
  

• Redbook: Education for a Smarter Planet — The Future of Learning CIO Report

  This publication is a supplement to the Future of Learning: Executive Insights Report. It provides an in-depth investigation of three enabling technologies in the future of education: consumer IT, open technologies, and cloud computing. It includes real-world examples of the how these technologies work and offers guidance for strategic planning.
  
  

• New courses for teaching with Telelogic Rational Rhapsody

  Four new courses help you teach real-time or embedded systems engineering, software development, and testing with a model-driven development environment. Look for (QQ127) Essentials of Rhapsody for Systems Engineers v7.5, (QQ135) Telelogic Rhapsody Essential Tool Training C++ V7.3,(QQ136) Essentials of Rational Rhapsody v7.5 for Software Engineers (C++), and (QQ335) Rhapsody Model Based Systems Engineering Workflow v7.5.
  
  

• Top ten reasons to join the IBM Academic Initiative

  developerWorks recently celebrated its 10th birthday. To participate in the festivities, we put together a list of the top 10 reasons to become an Academic Initiative member. If you had any doubts about joining, this impressive list should convince you!
  
  

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