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IBM and U of I’s Grainger College of Engineering at Urbana-Champaign launched a decade-long, $200 million research partnership called IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute in 2021, focused on artificial intelligence, supercomputing and materials research. Since then, IBM has collaborated with U of I to launch the National Quantum Algorithm Center, which will be a tenant at of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago that’s being built at the former US Steel factory site on the Far South Side. IBM plans to build a team of up to 50 researchers in Chicago.
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Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
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Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
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IBM is using Illinois because they know everyone in the state can be bought.
IBM the world’s most stale IT company decides to invest in Illinois. IBM income is mostly derived from maintaining the decades old legacy systems for dying companies that can’t afford to invest in upgraded technology.