Industrial Relations
Cooperation and collaboration with industry has become a productive and
necessary aspect of our instructional and research programs. Primarily
through our Industrial Affiliates Program, we interact with a large number of
companies and their research and development laboratories located throughout
the country. The need for highly qualified scientists in industry, academia,
and government is the main driving force behind this important symbiosis. We
also believe that these relationships with industry are necessary to assure
the long-term growth of the field.
Over the last year our Department received large corporate donations
from over a dozen companies. A notable donation was the 16-node SP2
parallel computer from IBM, valued at over $1 million.
Major software donations came from Oracle
and Microsoft. Gifts to the Computer Sciences Department also include
graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships,
research/instructional equipment, Presidential/National Young
Investigator Award matching grants, faculty development grants, and
unrestricted cash. Smaller donations were received from several other
companies. The total value of all donations exceeded \$8 million in
the past year. The research and instructional equipment, and the
faculty and student support, provided by these corporations constitute
a major asset of our Department.
Relationships between the Department and these companies include a variety of
joint research activities, as well as other interactions of mutual interest.
For example, as part of our industrial affiliate program we provide industrial
corporations with support for student recruiting. The following lists our
major supporters since July 1994 (we also receive, and greatly appreciate,
many smaller gifts and donations):
- Apple Corporation
- Unrestricted grant
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Fellowships, faculty development grant, and lecture series support
- Bell Communications Research
- Unrestricted grant
- Cisco Systems
- Networking hardware
- Digital
- Equipment donation and matching funds
- Epic
- Unrestricted grant
- GAMS Corporation
- Software
- Hewlett-Packard
- Numerous large equipment donations and unrestricted research grants
- IBM
- Faculty development grant, equipment donations,
unrestricted research grants, and graduate-student fellowships
- Intel
- Unrestricted research grant and equipment donation
- Informix Software
- Unrestricted research grant
- Microsoft
- Major software donation and unrestricted research grant
- Oracle
- Major software donation and support
- Softcraft
- Unrestricted research grant
- Sun Microsystems
- Unrestricted research grant, equipment and software donations
- Veritas Software
- Unrestricted research grant
- Xerox
- Unrestricted research grant and matching funds
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