In a bid to boost enrollment and retention in college computer-science classes, Microsoft and the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College have created the Institute for Personal Robots in Education.
Microsoft will provide Georgia Tech with $1 million paid over three years to develop practical new ways to bring robotics technology into the computer science curriculum. An additional $1 million for the institute will be provided by the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College.
The announcement comes less than a month after Microsoft released a community technology preview of its Microsoft Robotics Studio, a Windows-based development environment for creating robotic applications. The institute will use Robotics Studio as a core technology.
Linda Leung, lleung@nww.com
