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This page contains a number of links to New Zealand, Australian and International university Computer Science departments, government departments, and organizations.
Auckland University of Technology School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Lincoln University Applied Management and Computing Division Massey University Institute of Information Sciences and Technology : Research Groups University of Auckland Department of Computer Science : City Campus ; Tamaki Campus Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (CDMTCS) Centre for Image Technology and Robotics (CITR) CITR - Research and Development
Nikau (Software Technology) Nikau - Research Groups:
University of Canterbury Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering : Research
University of Otago Computer Science Department Department of Information Science : Research
University of Waikato Department of Computer Science : Research Groups
Victoria University of Wellington School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science : Research Areas
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology School of Computing
UNITEC Institute of Technology Computing and Information Technology
Waikato Polytechnic School of Information Technology
Computer Science Association of New Zealand (CSANZ)
Domainz - The New Zealand Internet Registry Registration of domain names. Information about the domain structure of New Zealand.
Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Statutory authority which is responsible for about 60% of the public expenditure on research and development in New Zealand. It covers almost all fields of science, including the social sciences but excluding defence and health.
Imaging & Sensing at IRL Imaging and Sensing at Industrial Research Limited has expertise in a wide range of industrial sensing technologies including machine vision, laser techniques, optics, microwaves, x-rays and ultrasonics. Much of the team's work is concerned with the computer processing of acquired sensor data for industrial applications.
Information Technology Association of New Zealand (ITANZ) Trade association representing suppliers of hardware, software and services in the computing and telecommunications industries.
InternetNZ Formerly the Internet Society of New Zealand, InternetNZ is a non-profit society established in 1995 to dedicated to protecting and promoting the Internet in New Zealand and fostering a coordinated, cooperative approach to its ongoing development.
Microsoft New Zealand
National Advisory Committee in Computing Qualifications (NACCQ) Made up of representatives from New Zealand Polytechnics and the New Zealand Computer Industry. NACCQ advises APNZ on matters on computing education that effect Polytechnics.
New Zealand Association of Science Educators. A national institution which represents the interests of teachers of science.
New Zealand Computer Society
New Zealand Internet Registry Ltd
Royal Society of New Zealand Site with news, events, publications, and other documentation that reflects the society's input into education, policy advice to government, plus wide involvement with NZ science and technology organisations.
Software New Zealand The goal of this association is to ‘encourage, foster and promote the growth of the New Zealand software industry,’ first locally, then internationally.
Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) Interactive Media Users Organisation.
2020 Communications Trust Home Page
Web Designers of New Zealand
Australian Defence Force Academy School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Australian National University Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering College of Engineering and Computer Science School of Computer Science Department of Information Engineering Computer Sciences Laboratory ANU Supercomputer Facility
Bond University School of Information Technology : Research Activities
Central Queensland University Faculty of Informatics and Communication
Curtin University of Technology Department of Computing : Research Groups Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering Deakin University School of Engineering and Information Technology
Edith Cowan University School of Computer and Information Science : Research Flinders University School of Informatics and Engineering
Griffith University School of Computing and Information Technology Australian Software Quality Research Institute
La Trobe University, Bendigo Department of Information Technology : Research La Trobe University, Bundoora Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering : Research Centres
Macquarie University Department of Computing : Research Department of Electronics
Monash University Faculty of Information Technology Clayton School of Information Technology Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology (GSCIT) Peninsula School of Information Technology School of Information Technology - Malaysia Campus Berwick School of Information Technology School of Information Technology - South Africa
Murdoch University School of Information Technology Research Groups
Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Information Technology : Research School of Software Engineering and Data Communications School of Information Systems
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology School of Computer Science and Information Technology Research Centres and Areas Swinburne University of Technology School of Information Technology : Research Groups and Centres University of Adelaide Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Engineering) Research Activities University of Ballarat School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences Centre for Electronic Commerce and Communications
University of Canberra Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Melbourne Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering : Research Department of Information Systems : Research
University of New England School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of New South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
University of Newcastle School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science : Research Areas : School of Design, Communication & Information Technology
University of Queensland School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
University of South Australia School of Computer and Information Science
University of Southern Queensland Department of Mathematics & Computing
University of Sydney Department of Electrical and Information Engineering : Research Groups
University of Tasmania School of Computing : Research
University of Technology, Sydney Faculty of Information Technology : Research University of Western Australia School of Computer Science and Software Engineering : Research School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering : Research University of Western Sydney School of Computing and Information Technology : Research
University of Wollongong Faculty of Informatics : Research Institutes and Centres School of Information Technology and Computer Science School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Telecommunications and Information Technology Research Institute Faculty of Commerce: School of Economics and Information Systems
ANU Supercomputer Facility
Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly The aim of this group is to promote the interaction of researchers, scientists, and industry professionals who are working in the Neural Network and related fields in the Asia Pacific region.
Australian Computer Science Academic Personal Database Listing of many Computer Science Academics within Australia.
Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia’s largest scientific research agency. See particularly its Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences.
Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Members of the Cooperative Research Centres Program supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government. CRCs undertake
collaborative research and education programs in the fields of natural sciences and engineering, with a strong focus on commercial and other applications. See the listing of CRCs and Former CRCs by Research Field . Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) Aims to have a significant influence in the formulation of science and technology policy; and by improving the overall climate forresearch and development, to bring useful economic, environmental and social benefits to Australia.
High Performance Computing & Communications Centre - CSIRO / Bureau of Meteorology
Neuraltek Company providing research & development, consulting, and training in the field of Artificial Neural Net systems.
Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation Consortium of Queensland universities formed with the objective to increase the State's innovative capacity through deployment and exploitation of advanced computing and communications infrastructure - supercomputers, high-capacity data archives, visualisation and networking capability
Graduate Assistantship Directory (U.S.) This edition of the ACM Graduate Assistantship Directory (GAD) covers the academic year 1999-2000. Listed by name of institution and geographic region.
Resources of Scholarly Societies : Computer Science Part of the Scholarly Societies Project, sponsored by the University of Waterloo Library. It provides access to websites maintained by and for scholarly computer science societies around the world.
IEEE's Computer Society ParaScope A list of institutions involved in high-performance computing and parallel computing.
Aalborg University Computer Vision and Media Technology The major research areas of the laboratory are: Computer Vision; Multimedia interfaces; Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Systems; Autonomous systems and agents.
American Association for Artificial Intelligence A nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artificial intelligence, improve the teaching and training of AI practitioners, and provide guidance for research planners and funders concerning the importance and potential of current AI developments and future directions.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) American Society for Quality The Society's mission is to advance individual and organizational performance excellence worldwide by providing opportunities for learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange.
Amerinex Applied Imaging A company specializing in computer vision products, engineering and research. Contracts with the U.S. government and commercial institutions to develop solutions to image understanding problems.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division Includes information on Argonne's Mathematics and Computer Science Division, which has the world's largest IBM massively parallel computer (an SP1) and is establishing a CAVE virtual reality environment.
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute A technology transfer organization that promotes and expedites the application of research on Artificial Intelligence for the benefit of industrial, commercial, government and academic clients.
Artificial Intelligence Center At SRI International. One of the world's major centers of research in artificial intelligence. Founded in 1966, the AIC has been a pioneer and a major contributor to the development of computer capabilities for intelligent behavior in complex situations. Its objectives are to understand the computational principles underlying intelligence in man and machines and to develop methods for building computer-based systems to solve problems, to communicate with people, and to perceive and interact with the physical world.
Artificial Intelligence Information Analysis Laboratory An active research group working in digital image processing and related areas. Its topics of interest span the areas of nonlinear signal and image filtering, image sequence processing and analysis, multichannel and color image processing, parallel image processing, medical signal processing (ECG, EEG and EMG processing), ultrasonic image processing and storage, fast algorithms and architectures for digital filtering and image processing, morphological image analysis and knowledge-based image analysis.
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) A center of the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC). Topics of research include: Learning Systems; Intelligent Agents; Logic Reasoning and Search; Electronic Marketplaces; Autonomous Robots; Music with AI.
Asia Web Guide - Nikkei Net Interactive Links to web sites of organizations and companies arranged by industry type. See Computers, Internet, Telecommunication.
Asian Technology Information Program A non-profit organization dedicated to providing objective and high-quality information about technology developments in Asia.
Association for Computational Linguistics An international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) An international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. In particular see the List of Special Interest Groups and the ACM Digital Library.
Association for History and Computing An international organisation which aims to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research.
Association for Symbolic Logic
AT&T Labs Research
ATM Forum An international non-profit organization formed with the objective of accelerating the use of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) products and services through a rapid convergence of interoperability specifications. In addition, the Forum promotes industry cooperation and awareness.
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Founded with support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research. Within the framework of the Federal Development Program of the Austrian Government Microelectronics and Information Processing, the Institute was assigned key institute for research area S7 Artificial Intelligence. According to this development program, ÖFAI maintains close links to the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Vienna (IMKAI) as well as to major Austrian companies in industry, banking, and software services.
Bavarian Consortium for High Performance Scientific Computing (FORTWIHR)
British Computer Society (BCS) The only chartered professional Institution for the field of information systems engineering. Provides service and support to the IS community, including individual practitioners, employers of IS staff and the general public. Umbrella organisation for a large number of specialist groups. Also an Engineering Institution, fully licensed by the Engineering Council to nominate Chartered and Incorporated Engineers and to accredit university courses and training schemes.
Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence CSCSI exists as a special interest group of CIPS for the promotion of interest and activity in AI.
Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Contains links to a substantial number of research groups and projects carried out at Carnegie Mellon SCS.
Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) A collaborative project of Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Princeton University, AT&T Labs, Bell Labs, Bellcore, and The NEC Research Institute. A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center.
Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC) A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center established in 1989. Assists computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers in making parallel computation accessible to industry, government, and academia.
Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization Established in 1983 to assist developing countries in the introduction of computers and information technology. Under the guidance of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, CICC conducts programs in the information technology field in cooperation with various Japanese agencies.
Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development, Sardinia. (CRS4) An interdisciplinary research centre developing advanced simulation techniques and applying them, by means of high performance computers, to the solution of large scale computational problems in various fields.
Center for Geometric Computing The objective of the Center is a long-range coordinated effort, carried out at Brown, Duke, and Johns Hopkins with major support from the Army Research Office, which is aimed at facilitating an effective technology transfer from Computational Geometry to relevant applied fields.
Commercial Hardware and Software Vendors National HPCC Software Exchange.
COMPAQComputational Geometry Working Group This working group was formed as part of the ACM Workshop on Strategic Directions in Computing Research, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science in 1996. The goals of the working group are to identify key research directions for the computational geometry community, to explore connections with other areas of science and engineering, and to suggest actions and initiatives to enhance the community's visibility, funding, impact and productivity.
Computational Vision Group at Caltech. Research in orientation diffusions, dynamic vision, human motion learning, 3D body tracking, finding faces in cluttered scenes, deformable filters in early vision, visual tracking of handwriting, functional magnetic resonance imaging of visual segmentation, 3D photography, perception of shape from shading.
Computer Conservation Society
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT (CSAIL)
Computer Vision Group Cornell University. Recognition, image matching, image databases, motion, stereo, segmentation, machine vision applications.
Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing The mission of the Center is to sustain Cornell University's prominence in research by providing a high-performance computing environment to advance and facilitate research and education in all areas of computational science and engineering across the campus and for cross-university alliances. Formerly the Cornell Theory Center.
Cray Inc. - Research
Data & Analysis Center for Software The DACS is the DoD Software Information Clearinghouse serving as an authoritative source for state of the art software information and provides technical support to the software community.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Processing Technology Office (DARPA) (IPTO) The ITO is responsible for research into breakthrough information technologies for use in advanced defense applications. The office's mission is to provide the networking and computing hardware, software, systems and management technologies vital to ensuring Department of Defense military superiority.
Digital Equipment Corporation
The Dutch National Research Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science - Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) CWI is one of the founding members of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, ERCIM. The mission of CWI is to perform frontier research in mathematics and computer science; and to transfer new knowledge in these fields to the society in general, and to trade and industry in particular.
Electronics Laboratory - Institut für Elektronik (IfE) The Electronics Laboratory belongs to the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. The IfE is active in many of today's research fields, including: digital signal processing, electronics packaging, high performance computing, high speed electronics, neural networks, optical signal processing, sensor electronics, EU Technology Transfer.
EUROPA - Directorate-General of Informatics The role of the Directorate-General is to manage and coordinate the European Commission's IT and telecommunications resources on behalf of Commission's services, and in particular to formulate and implement a dynamic overall IT strategy fully in tune with the Commission's priorities.
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Established in July 1982 as a representative body for the European Artificial Intelligence community. Its aim is to promote the study, research and application of Artificial Intelligence in Europe.
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research establishments from fifteen European countries are members of ERCIM.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Merged with the GMD German National Research Centre for Information Technology. Conducts cutting edge research on a national and international level, in cooperation with partners from trade and industry. Contains a number of institutes.
Fujitsu Limited
Geometric Computing and Computer Vision Group Cardiff University. Conducts research into 2D machine vision, robotics, 3D vision and geometry. The main areas of interest are automated visual inspection, three-dimensional vision, computer aided design, model based computer vision, data/sensor fusion, geometric computing, robot vision, encoding of images, uncertain reasoning with images, non-photorealistic rendering, and genetic algorithms.
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence - Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) One of the largest nonprofit contract research institutes in the field of innovative software technology based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods. DFKI is focusing on the complete cycle of innovation - from basic research and technology development through demonstrators and prototypes to product functions and commercialization.
GMD German National Research Centre for Information Technology GMD (merged with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) conducts cutting edge research on a national and international level, in cooperation with partners from trade and industry. GMD/Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft contains a number of institutes: Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center The GVU Center at Georgia University seeks to develop computer graphics, information visualization, and ease of usability to improve the communication of information between people and between computers and people.
Harvard Robotics Laboratory Research projects include computational vision, neural networks, tactile sensing, motion control and VLSI systems.
Hewlett Packard
Higher Education and Research A component of IBM's global education web site, an evolving partnership with higher education designed to stimulate the use of computer technology in academic instruction and academic research.
IAPR - The International Association for Pattern Recognition An international association of non-profit, scientific and professional organizations (being national, multi-national, or international in scope) concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense.
IBM IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. The technical objectives of the IEEE focus on advancing the theory and practice of electrical, electronics and computer engineering and computer science. IEEE Communications Society A community comprised of a diverse group of industry professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications technologies. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Formerly the Neural Networks Society (NNS), the interest of the Society is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Neural Networks carried out throughout the IEEE. This includes the theory, design, application and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms emphasizing neural networks, including connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.
IEEE Computer Society
Information Science Research Institute The overall mission of ISRI is to foster the improvement of automated technologies for document understanding. ISRI has focused its attention on technologies for recognition and retrieval of information from machine-printed documents.
Information Systems, Process Engineering & Software Technology Group CERN (IPT) A division of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Provides support and service for CERN project teams that produce software for high energy physics experiments. Also identify and address software engineering problems across experiments and projects, and provide common solutions.
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. A scientific and technological institute operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry. The main missions of INRIA are: to carry out basic and applied research; the creation of experimental systems; the organization of international scientific exchange; the transfer and dissemination of knowledge and expertise; to contribute to the effective implementation of research findings; to contribute to cooperative development programmes, especially through training; to carry out scientific evaluations; to contribute to standardization.
Institute for Information Technology National Research Council Canada. One of the Research Council's 16 research institutes. Its mission is to assist industry through collaborative research and development projects. See Visual Information Technology. Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA, U.S.)
Institute for Software Research University of California at Irvine. An alliance of applied research and technology partnerships between academia and industry. Its focus is on advancing the state-of-the-art and state-of-the practice in software production.
Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics One of seven institutes of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Hellas, Crete.
Institute of Computer Science One of seven institutes of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Hellas, Crete. Conducts applied research, develops applications and products, and provides services. The research directions are chosen according to the short- and long-term needs of the Informatics sector in Greece, the European challenges in R&D and current trends in research and technology.
Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic The present program of the Institute includes: theoretical computer science, computational mathematics, knowledge based systems, neural networks, non-linear modelling, medical informatics.
Intel Corporation
International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Affiliated with the CS division of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department U.C Berkeley.
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) The international standards and conformity assessment body for all fields of electrotechnology. See also the JTC1 Information Technology Standards. (Links to the various Joint Technical Committees of the IEC and ISO.)
International Federation for Information Processing A non-governmental, non-profit umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information processing. It was established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO as an aftermath of the first World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Technical work, which is the heart of IFIP's activity, is managed by a series of Technical Committees.
International Neural Network Society An association of scientists, engineers, students, and others seeking to learn about and advance the modeling of behavioral and brain processes, and the application of neural modeling concepts to technological problems.
International Society of Applied Intelligence A non-profit organization with the purpose of conducting scientific literacy and educational activities.
International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN)
International Standards Organisation (ISO) In particular see JTC 1 Joint Technical Committee 1. International Federation for Information Processing A non-governmental, non-profit umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information processing. It was established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO as an aftermath of the First World Computer Congress held in Paris in 1959. Today, IFIP has several types of Members and maintains friendly connections to specialized agencies of the UN system and non-governmental organizations. International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) Organizes academic conferences on Web Technology, makes information arising from these conferences and forums permanently and openly available on the widest possible scale, preserves the history of the conferences, and encourages the global development of the World-Wide Web.
Japan Information Technology Services Association Association of the computer software & services industry in Japan.
JTC1 Information Technology Standards Links to the various Joint Technical Committees of the IEC and ISO.
Laboratory for Artificial Neural Systems (LANS) The central research area is the use of supervised artificial neural networks, however unsupervised or partially supervised paradigms are also being studied for data clustering, principal component analysis, and as neurobiologically inspired models for recognition of spatio-temporal sequences.
Linux International A non-profit organization which distributes information about Linux.
Linux Documentation Project The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) is working on developing good, reliable documentation for the Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in taking care of all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online documentation (man pages, HTML, and so on) to printed manuals covering topics such as installing, using, and running Linux. Links to other Linux related projects and information.
Machine Intelligence Laboratory Part of the Information Engineering Division of the University of Cambridge Engineering Department. Includes the Computer Vision and Robotics Group, Medical Images Group, and Speech Research Group.
Machine Vision Unit University of Edinburgh, Artificial Intelligence Department. Research covers several areas, spanning range and intensity image analysis, stereo, automatic model acquisition, geometric reasoning, matching, medical image processing, shape modelling, sensor fusion and parallel processing. Recent activity has been focused on model acquisition, surface-based model matching, range data acquisition and segmentation.
Maui High Performance Computing Center Ranked as one of the top computing centers in the world, MHPCC provides Department of Defense (DoD), government, private industry, and academic users with access to high performance parallel computing technologies, expertise, and educational services.
Microsoft Corporation See also Microsoft Research: Advanced interactivity and intelligence; Systems and architecture; Mathematical sciences; Programming tools, methodologies and techniques.
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Media Laboratory Carries on advanced research into a broad range of information technologies including digital television, holographic imaging, computer music, computer vision, electronic publishing, artificial intelligence, human/machine interface design, and education-related technologies.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) MERL's charter is to conduct problem-driven basic research in computers and their uses. Research areas include : computer graphics; volume graphics; computer vision; human-computer interaction; human learning, development, and cognition; artificial intelligence; social virtual reality, multimedia, computer networks, medical applications, computational linguistics.
Motorola, Inc.
NASA Information Sciences and Technology Directorate
National Academy of Sciences In particular see the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council.
National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development (NCO / NITRD)
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) NECTEC is a dynamic organization which is responsible for the development of Information Technology in Thailand. Its mission is to ensure Thailand's competitiveness in Electronics and Computers and the use of IT to stimulate economic and social impact through its own R&D programs as well as R&D funding services to universities.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (NIST) (MCSD) MCSD is charged with providing technical leadership within NIST in modern analytical and computational methods for solving scientific problems of interest to American industry. See also Mathematics, Statistics and Computational Science
National Science Foundation (USA) An independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering. In particular see The Directorate forComputer and Information Science and Engineering.
National Security Agency The National Security Agency / Central Security Service is responsible for the centralized coordination, direction, and performance of technical functions in support of U.S. Government activities to protect U.S. communications and produce foreign intelligence information.
NEC Corporation
North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Organised with the intention of providing leadership in the modeling and management of uncertainty with an emphasis on fuzzy systems, theory and applications.
Novell, Inc.
Numerical Algorithms Group Developers of graphics and visualisation software spanning 2D data representation to very high-end 3D visualisation software.
Principia Cybernetica Project A world-wide organization collaboratively developing a computer-supported evolutionary-systemic philosophy, in the context of the transdisciplinary academic fields of Systems Science and Cybernetics.
Purdue Robot Vision Laboratory Performs research in sensory intelligence for the machines of the future, including 3D object recognition, vision-guided navigation for indoor mobile robots, task and assembly planning, etc.
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) A campus research unit of the University of California, San Diego. It is the focus of computational activities for the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). In operation since 1986, SDSC has provided the national research community with access to the highest-performance computers available; conducted applications and technology research/development projects; trained researchers, educators, and students; and facilitated technology transfer to industry and government.
Sandia Corporation Sandia is a national security laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by the Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company. Within the area of computational and information sciences the goal is the advancement of state-of-the-art computer use while maintaining the accuracy, security, and accessibility of information. Distinguishing strengths include the development of advanced computing networks and facilities, computational methods for emerging computer technologies, mathematical techniques for information surety, and computer-based techniques for intelligent machines.
SCIzzL The Scalable Coherent Interface Local Area MultiProcessor Local Area Memory Port Users, Developers, and Manufacturers Association.
SIGART SIGART is the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence.
Silicon Graphics A leading force in the development of high-performance computing technology ranging from desktop workstations and servers to supercomputers. Also creates software for design, Internet, and entertainment applications. Silicon Graphics provides solutions in several key industries, including manufacturing, government, entertainment, communications, energy, the sciences, and education.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) A group of professionals formed SIAM to advance the application of mathematics to science and industry. Its members are computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers, statisticians, and engineers.
Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University. Established by the U.S. Department of Defense to advance the practice of software engineering. (Quality software that is produced on schedule and within budget is a critical component of U.S. defense systems).
The Software Productivity Consortium A nonprofit organization of industry, government, and academia. The Consortium develops processes, methods, tools and services that significantly improve the ability of its members and affiliates to build high integrity software intensive systems.
Software Program Managers Network The mission of the Network is to enable managers of large-scale, software-intensive development or maintenance projects to more effectively manage and succeed by identifying and conveying to them management best practices, lessons-learned, and direct support. SPMN supports large-scale software projects throughout the U.S. Armed Services.
SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineering
SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory The primary aim of the Laboratory is to advance the theory and practice in producing complex software and hardware systems that have the intended structural and behavioral properties. Another objective is to explore advanced network-based infrastructure for distributed, heterogeneous computing. Founded in 1946 in conjunction with Stanford University as the Stanford Research Institute, SRI International is one of the world's largest contract research firms.
Stanford Center for Design Research (CDR). The CDR explores the application of new computer technologies in support of collaborative design. A wide array of research projects are described.
Sun Microsystems
Sunsite The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide.
Supercomputing@FSU (Florida State University)
The Turing Project Research Group Combines research in philosophy of mind, mathematical logic, computer science, cognitive science, and the history of computing. Collaborative research is in progress with academics in the U.S. and Europe. Established in 1995, the Project is now the most comprehensive single collection in the world of unpublished documents relating to Turing's work in computing.
Turku Centre for Computer Science (Finland)
Uniforum Association A professional association for end users, developers, and vendors to promote and exchange information about the practices and benefits of open technologies and related hardware, software, applications and standards.
Unisys
USENIX Association USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association.
UTCS Neural Networks Research Group The group is part of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Research concentrates on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, including natural language processing, episodic memory, schema-based vision, self-organization in the visual cortex, and neuro-evolution in sequential decision tasks such as game playing and robotics.
Vietnamese Association for Computing, Engineering Technology, and Science (VACETS) A non-profit, non-political, professional and technical organization with the mission of providing a forum for engineers and scientists to exchange ideas and information, and to foster professional friendships.
W3C World Wide Web ConsortiumAn international industry consortium, jointly hosted by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (U.S); the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique [INRIA] in Europe; and the Keio University Shonan-Fujisawa Campus in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users; reference code implementations to embody and promote standards; and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Conducts research in five main areas: smart matter (explores new ways of designing and manufacturing devices, on a multitude of scales); new document types; knowledge ecologies (explores how knowledge within documents can be utilized effectively, and defines new roles for documents in the fostering of individual and organizational knowledge); network devices and document services (enabling electronic document commerce); document information fabric (the development of robust, scalable, high performing, networked systems).
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