Innovation

The Reynolds Journalism Institute in the Missouri School of Journalism celebrated the grand opening of the Microsoft App Development Lab Thursday. The lab focuses on creating apps for Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, which comes out on October 26.

This new lab not only provides a new gaming system but also new access to Microsoft brands that were not readily available before.

Journalism students, professors and researchers at the University of Missouri are teaming up with Microsoft in an effort to develop apps for the soon-to-be-released, tablet-friendly Windows 8 operating system.

The Reynolds Journalism Institute on the University of Missouri campus is opening a new lab where faculty and students can experiment with Microsoft products, including the soon-to-be-released Windows 8 operating system.

The Reynolds Journalism Institute announced the opening of the Microsoft Application Development Lab Tuesday.

The lab, part of the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism is "a place where RJI staff and Fellows, students, faculty and others can innovate and collaborate using the soon-to-be released Windows 8 operating system," according to a news release from the institute.

Roger Fidler testified in writing and on video about the idea he pitched nearly 20 years ago for a tablet-size interactive device he believed would one day replace printed newspapers.

Samsung brought forth videotaped testimony from one Roger Fidler (Program Director for Digital Publishing at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute), who asserted that he’s been working on tablet designs since 1981.

Samsung is going after the design of the iPad itself, calling upon the testimony of the designer of a much earlier tablet.