Corporate Interactions
CS faculty members, researchers, and graduate students
are conducting leading-edge research in architecture, artificial intelligence,
computational biology, databases and digital libraries, languages and
compilation, graphics, operating systems, networks and distributed
computing, scientific and parallel computing, security, and theory of
computing (see research summaries). CIS, a university
initiative that includes CS, encourages and sponsors interactions
with university researchers in interdisciplinary programs including
information science and computational biology. Our relationships
with corporate partners provide many opportunities for collaboration.
We realize that a true partnership results in mutual satisfaction and gain. Toward
this end, we invite our corporate partners to appoint a corporate contact who
will work with CIS to build a strategic corporate–CIS partnership, build strong
personal relationships on campus, or organize recruiting activities on campus
for CS undergraduate and graduate students.
CIS welcomes corporate partners to make unrestricted donations in support of
department initiatives, make research grants to individual faculty and researchers,
give matching funds to NSF or other granting agencies, create fellowships for
graduate students, provide equipment grants, startup funds for new faculty, support
for BOOM (Bits on Our Minds, which showcases our student technology work), or
course-development grants.
We welcome corporate partners’ researchers to the department for long- and short-term
visits to work with individual faculty members and research groups. The
aforementioned research areas and two institutes, The Information Assurance
Institute, and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute, as well as affiliated
programs in computational biology, digital arts and graphics, information science,
and computational science and engineering, are available to joint researchers on
a case-by-case basis.
The Department of Computer Science at Cornell is typically ranked among the top
five computer science departments internationally and includes
CS faculty members and researchers continued
collaborations with the following corporate partners,
whose financial contributions support our educational
and research missions.
Credit Suisse First Boston and Microsoft sponsored
Bits On Our Minds (BOOM) this past March. The General
Electric Fund is providing support to identify new programs
and approaches to increase the number of women and
minorities in computer science. Green Hills Software
provided support for the ACSU programming contest.
Hewlett Packard donated equipment to Professor Gün Sirer
to facilitate the integration of interactive wireless
technology with teaching.
IBM provided the 2002 Faculty Partnership Award for
Professor Jayavel Shanmugasundaram.
Intel supported undergraduate teaching labs and provided
a fellowship to Ph.D. student Dan Grossman. Intel also
supported Professors Gehrke and Shanmugasundaram’s
scalable-sensor data-management project.
Microsoft supported several faculty and senior researcher
projects, including Werner Vogels’s distributed systems effort;
Professor Johannes Gehrke’s work on query caching and
routing, and research on a light-weight DBMS and stream
processor for sensor devices; and Professor Gün Sirer’s
research “Assuring the Security of Components in the .NET
Framework”.
Microsoft also provided a fellowship for Ph.D. candidate
Ranveer Chandra, and support for the Information Assurance
Institute and the CIS curriculum.
PricewaterhouseCoopers provided support to the CS
Undergraduate Computing Association.
Verizon provided support for a CS graduate fellowship.
■ 37 faculty members
■ 19 full-time research associates
■ 110 Ph.D. candidates
■ 100 M.Eng. candidates
■ 200 undergraduate majors graduating
each year
Gifts and Grants
CS is grateful for the support, including
equipment and software, provided
by our industrial partners.
Credit Suisse First Boston
$7,500
Google, Inc.
$58,223
Green Hills Software, Inc.
$1,600
Hewlett Packard
$20,000
IBM
$40,000
Intel Foundation
$102,363
Microsoft Corporation
$386,950
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
$1,000
Verizon
$10,000
CIS is also grateful for gifts
from the following partners:
Microsoft Corporation
$250,878
McGraw Hill
$4,000
You may address
any correspondence
regarding corporate
interactions to:
Nora Balfour
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
4130 Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
E-mail: corprel@cs.cornell.edu
Telephone: 607 255-9197
Fax: 607 255-4428
Web site: http://www.cis.cornell.edu/