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President Obama announced Friday a $795 million government program to develop broadband access in rural parts of the country. Among the beneficiaries will be 900 healthcare facilities.The investment will support 66 new Recovery Act broadband projects nationwide that, according to the grantees, will not only directly create approximately 5,000 jobs up front, but will also help spur economic development in some of the nation's hardest-hit communities, helping create jobs for years to come.
IBM and the University of Missouri (MU) announced an initiative on Friday that, by empowering the school's bioinformatics projects with IBM's high performance computing technologies, aims to develop a first-of-a-kind cloud computing environment for genomics research collaboration at a regional level.