IBM today announced the launch of the first of its kind Gen-next technology challenge - IBM Blue Battle - in over 25 leading engineering colleges across India. This is a unique opportunity for students to get hands-on-experience on high end technologies and use IT tools to develop innovative solutions for difficult computing problems in real time.
IBM expects over 1,000 students in each of the 25 hosting colleges to participate in IBM Blue Battle. The first in the series has been launched at IIIT Hyderabad and is being conducted on IBM Multi-core architecture for gaming. Also, colleges lined up in the IBM Blue Battle series include UVCE Bangalore, JNTU Hyderabad, Madras Institute of Technology (Anna University) Chennai, few IITs and NITs.