IBM Germany is involved in a joint effort with the University of Karlsruhe to develop a prototype university network and to explore new approaches to university education. The network, which includes equipment loaned by IBM, will link a variety of computer systems from different manufacturers.

University research into the technologies that underpin our industry is one aspect of IBM's partnerships with the academic and scientific communities. Others include support of a supercomputer research facility and the study of manufacturing systems.

The company participates in research that both adds to the world's basic store of knowledge and solves real and urgent human problems. Results may shed new light on the nature of matter or improve satellite image processing for agricultural and environmental purposes in Latin America, Spain and Africa.

Dr. Kenneth Wilson, Nobel Laureate and head of the Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., directs efforts to establish a supercomputer facility there. One of five such projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S., the effort at Cornell also involves New York State, Floating Point Systems and IBM.