IBM and Universities Team Up to Close a ‘Big Data’ Skills Gap

IBM is expanding its push to encourage the study of "big data" through a brace of new partnerships with prominent universities and a new round of grants to support data-analytics pursuits in academe, the company announced on Wednesday.

By Lee Gardner

Full Story: http://chronicle.com/article/IBMUniversities-Team-Up/141111/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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