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The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) is an annual nationwide software development competition, created by the Academic Initiative of IBM. The competition currently takes place in India, Israel, China, Ireland and Switzerland (outside of India the effort is known as the IBM Great Minds Program). == History == International Business Machines (IBM), which was founded in 1896 as The Tabulating Machine Company, is a multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, North Castle, New York, United States. It is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software (with a focus on the latter), and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. The Academic Initiative is an educational enterprise by IBM. It was created as a worldwide initiative in 2003 with the aim to equip educational institutions with the most current IT tools in the market, to better prepare students for the professional world. IBM’s Academic Initiative includes an online portal that provides access to software downloads, hardware, training and course materials, most at no charge. Through the website, IBM provides resources for integration into college curricula to help teach students how to master open technologies. Through the Academic Initiative, IBM partners with institutions that support open standards and seek to use open source and IBM technologies for teaching purposes, to prepare students for a more competitive information technology (IT) workforce. The Academic Initiative also addresses the need for companies to collaborate with academia to develop IT talent and drive IT to smaller towns. The Academic Initiative programs〔(IBM - IBM Academic Initiative - Project Praviin News - India )〕 include various student and university engagements designed to encourage innovation in the technology space at the university level and to enable students to become market ready. The Great Mind Challenge, launched in 2004 by the Academic Initiative of IBM in India, is one of those programs. TGMC was created with a focus on the need to better educate millions of students for a more competitive information technology (IT) workforce by partnering with colleges and universities. Each year, the number of participants and participating colleges increases. TGMC is now one of the largest nationwide student competitions in India. The Great Minds Program started in Zurich in 2007 and since then has rolled out to include Haifa, Dublin and China. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「IBM's The Great Mind Challenge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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