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October 08, 2007, 03:21 PM ET
Tipping the "Internet Scale"
Google and IBM announced that they will expand a college program that teaches students how to write computer code for the Internet age. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that the curriculum helps students learn to program computers to harness thousands of distributed machines to handle massive amounts of data in what’s called “Internet scale” programming.
The computer-science program, which the companies started at the University of Washington, will be expanded to include Carnegie-Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Maryland. In addition to expanding the program, Google and IBM have dedicated a data center of several hundred computers for the universities to use. —Dan Carnevale
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