IBM, Columbia University Team Up for Green Jobs Initiative

 

With 5 million new jobs in the clean energy sector expected as part of the Obama administration's $150 billion clean tech investment, any science-minded college student that doesn't consider a future in clean energy would be misguided. That's where IBM's Smarter Cities Skills Initiative comes in. The program opens up the company's green IT resources to Columbia students, presumably in an attempt to sway the next generation of college students towards IBM tools.

Among the resources that...