October 15, 1999

Microsoft Will Give MIT $25-Million for Educational-Technology Research

By VINCENT KIERNAN

In a $25-million deal announced last week, the Microsoft Corporation will underwrite research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop information technology for use in university education.

The five-year project, called "I-Campus," will comprise research in such areas as on-line advising, multimedia resources, remote collaboration, and administrative software, said officials of both M.I.T. and Microsoft Research, the software company's

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