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  1. PRESS RELEASE:  IBM OS/2 RESEARCH PROJECT EXPANDED                                                                                  
  2.                                                                                                                                     
  3. May 5, 1993                                                                                                                         
  4.                                                                                                                                     
  5.       SOMERS, N.Y.. . . IBM Personal Software                                                                                       
  6. Products (PSP) division and IBM Media Industry today announced an                                                                   
  7. extension of a joint research project with the University of                                                                        
  8. Missouri School of Journalism through February 1995.  Included in                                                                   
  9. the extension are more than 300 licenses of IBM's OS/2* 2.0, used                                                                   
  10. to automate the Journalism Schools' commercial newspaper,                                                                           
  11. television station and radio station.  OS/2 2.0 is IBM's                                                                            
  12. advanced, 32-bit operating system for Intel-based personal                                                                          
  13. computers.                                                                                                                          
  14.      Pioneered five years ago, the partnership -- one of the                                                                        
  15. largest between industry and journalism education to date -- was                                                                    
  16. developed to automate the news gathering, reporting and                                                                             
  17. production processes as well as to make leading edge technology                                                                     
  18. available for journalism education at the University of Missouri                                                                    
  19. School of Journalism.                                                                                                               
  20.      "In return for the resources we supply, IBM Media Industry                                                                     
  21. receives valuable insight on the technology needs of journalism                                                                     
  22. professionals in the newspaper publishing and broadcast news                                                                        
  23. industries," said Hal Topper, director of IBM Media Industry.                                                                       
  24.      "IBM is proud to work with the University of Missouri School                                                                   
  25. of Journalism to prepare the next generation of professional                                                                        
  26. journalists with the tools they need to meet the technological                                                                      
  27. challenges of today and tomorrow," said John Patrick, vice                                                                          
  28. president, sales and marketing for IBM's Personal Software                                                                          
  29. Products division.  "Professionals from a broad range of                                                                            
  30. industries, from journalism to banking, to manufacturing, are                                                                       
  31. committing to OS/2 for the stability, ease-of-use and power the                                                                     
  32. operating system provides."                                                                                                         
  33.      Leveraging the technology available today in OS/2 2.0, 300                                                                     
  34. networked OS/2 workstations connect the School of Journalism's                                                                      
  35. students, faculty, staff, university-owned newsrooms, writing                                                                       
  36. labs and media outlets.                                                                                                             
  37.      As the School of Journalism's platform of choice, OS/2 2.0                                                                     
  38. is used to produce -- from start to finish -- The Columbia                                                                          
  39. Missourian, a general circulation newspaper produced daily since                                                                    
  40. 1908.  OS/2 2.0 workstations are also involved in facilitating                                                                      
  41. the news broadcasts of two other School of Journalism media                                                                         
  42. outlets: KBIA-FM, a National Public Radio station and KOMU, an                                                                      
  43. NBC-TV affiliate.                                                                                                                   
  44. "Our computer system is the envy of every journalism school in                                                                      
  45. the world," said Brian Brooks, associate professor of journalism                                                                    
  46. and project coordinator.  "We have been able to pursue some                                                                         
  47. highly innovative technology, like OS/2.  And as a result of the                                                                    
  48. project, our students graduate with knowledge of the latest                                                                         
  49. techniques and procedures for integrating computer technology and                                                                   
  50. the practice of journalism."                                                                                                        
  51.      IBM originally provided nearly $2 million worth of                                                                             
  52. equipment, including software, hardware and peripherals.  The new                                                                   
  53. agreement includes plans for additional licenses of OS/2 and                                                                        
  54. hardware upgrades.                                                                                                                  
  55.      To commemorate their visionary program, the University of                                                                      
  56. Missouri School of Journalism was awarded the 1 millionth and one                                                                   
  57. copy of OS/2 2.0 in August of 1992.   By year end, over 2 million                                                                   
  58. copies of OS/2 2.0 had shipped.                                                                                                     
  59.                                                                                                                                     
  60.                    OS/2 2.0 Advanced Features                                                                                       
  61.                                                                                                                                     
  62.      OS/2 2.0 is the award-winning advanced operating system for                                                                    
  63. 32-bit personal computers that helps protect customers'                                                                             
  64. investments in existing software by enabling them to run tens of                                                                    
  65. thousands of applications originally designed for DOS and/or                                                                        
  66. Windows**, as well as the new applications designed specifically to                                                                 
  67. take advantage of the leading-edge technology in OS/2.                                                                              
  68.      This robust platform offers superior technology, including                                                                     
  69. an easy-to-use graphical user interface called the Workplace                                                                        
  70. Shell, true preemptive multitasking that allows customers to run                                                                    
  71. multiple software platforms simultaneously, and Crash Protection,                                                                   
  72. which guards against one application bringing down the entire                                                                       
  73. system.                                                                                                                             
  74.                                                                                                                                     
  75.                                    # # #                                                                                            
  76.                                                                                                                                     
  77.  *    Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the                                                                            
  78.       International Business Machines Corporation                                                                                   
  79.                                                                                                                                     
  80.  **   Indicates trademark or registered trademark of the Microsoft                                                                  
  81.       Corporation                                                                                                                   
  82.