A cooperation “cutting-edge” project will soon be underway between I.B.M. and Tamkang University. The project is aimed at constructing a Linux system to upgrade the Internet service efficiency. In the meantime, the project also carries two long-term goals: to heighten the free-flow of data processing; to cultivate more “State-of-the-art” experts in the future.

Dr. Clement C.P. Chang, Founder of T.K.U., will make this announcement together with Mr. Chien Ta-chun, V. P. for I.B.M. in the Asia and Pacific region (incidentally, Mr. Chien is also a T.K.U. alumnus), on the third floor of Hotel Hsi Hwa at 3 P.M. today (September l7).

The project is to accommodate urgent demands for information growth from various quarters such as research, administration and teaching. In view of the need for such a growth, portions of T.K.U.’s fund were poured into building the first Linux system that the island of Taiwan has ever seen.

In the foreseeable future, T.K.U. is also planning to set up courses related to Linux, to utilize the system in classroom teaching, to high-light Linux research and to expand the use of it on campus administrative services.

Tamkang e-Times also learned that T.K.U. is the first university in the Asia and Pacific region to have acquired such a device, namely the I.B.M. e Server z series and the Shark platform to use them simultaneously.