One recent event certain to catalyze the innovators and entrepreneurs of tomorrow at IU Bloomington was the Oct. 2 groundbreaking for Luddy Hall, the $39.8 million, 124,000-square-foot new home for IU’s School of Informatics and Computing.
Slated for completion in December 2017, private donations will fund at least one-fourth of the cost — including $8 million from Fred Luddy, a former IU student and founder of ServiceNow, a Silicon Valley-based company that offers cloud-based, automated IT help desk services.
“This building is designed to encourage an atmosphere of both collaboration and community and a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, combining the best qualities of academia and the tech sector. So much of what happens at our school is predicated upon the right combination of people, technology and applications — this new building will give our entire school the proximity, environment and tools to collaborate and thrive.”
— Bobby Schnabel, dean of the IU School of Informatics and Computing
Informatics currently is the third-largest undergraduate major at IU Bloomington, while computer science is the second-largest master of science degree program and the second-largest doctoral program on campus.
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