HP joins MIT Oxygen research project.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 June 2000-HEWLETT-PACKARD: HP joins MIT Oxygen research project (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21062000 Palo Alto, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced it has joined the Oxygen research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), with plans to contribute $5 million over a five-year period.

"We have a long history of collaborative research with HP," said Michael Dertouzos, LCS director, "and this support deepens and broadens our involvement with HP Labs, one of the world's great industrial research facilities." "We are particularly interested in this alliance because Oxygen has precisely the same objectives as our own CoolTown research project -- to...