GVU: About the Affiliates Program



	About the Affiliates Program
Who we are... The GVU Center was established at Georgia Tech in 1991 in recognition of the tremendous influence of emerging graphics, visualization and usability technologies on computing, engineering, and scientific research. In the 5 years since, we have grown from 9 faculty members to 40, with more than 100 graduate students. The Center was recently ranked number one in the U.S. for Graphics:User Interaction specialty programs by U.S. News & World Report (3/11/96). Our faculty, researchers and students-who come from disciplines as diverse as Computer Science; Industrial Engineering; Literature, Communication & Culture; and Psychology-are conducting research that will change the way we live and work. They are working in today's most exciting technologies, including virtual environments, animation, robotics, human-computer interaction, medical imaging, and multimedia. The GVU Center actively promotes interdisciplinary research, education and service, and provides a focal point for achieving successful collaborations. By integrating research, education and service, GVU is developing a collaborative environment where researchers unfamiliar with computer graphics and human uses of technology can integrate these technologies into their own research work. It provides an intellectual melting pot for students and faculty from diverse academic disciplines. We believe that our environment uniquely prepares our students for their professional careers and encourages research that is both relevant and challenging. Specialty programs GVU sponsors several specialty programs for industrial and academic colleagues. These programs offer opportunities for industrial involvement: The Usability Engineering Program is a new program involving companies that wish to participate in the evaluation of new user interface assessment tools and methods. It has its own organization, faculty members, and advisory board. Participate in the development and evaluation of software tools for building Virtual Environment applications. The VE Program also licenses several software systems, including the Simple Virtual Environment (SVE) Toolkit, Virtual GIS, and Virtually Better for Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy. Future programs as announced. Why become a GVU affiliate? The increasing pace of technological innovation demands that universities and industry work more closely together than ever before. The GVU Industrial Affiliates Program provides an organized avenue for direct corporate involvement with the Center, its faculty, students and research projects, helping your company keep abreast of today's-and tomorrow's-technological advances. Equally important, the IAP provides a fertile ground for nurturing relationships with tomorrow's technological leaders, and is a means of attracting the best and brightest to your organization. It is truly a "win-win" opportunity. What can you expect? There are many advantages to maintaining an interactive relationship with GVU. Here are some of the services currently available to our industrial colleagues and friends in the broader community: Information about graduate students' progress, their interests, expected graduation dates, and their availability for summer internships. Support of a graduate student doing research in an area of mutual interest. Periodic notice of new GVU research reports, which can be accessed via ftp site or World-Wide Web. Printed copies are available on request. Abstracts of dissertations and full copies on request. Regularly scheduled open houses in the lab and an annual Research Review Day, which includes presentations, demonstrations and other opportunities to interact with faculty and graduate students. An opportunity to participate in the College of Computing staff-in-residence program, which includes office space, computer usage, and access to all lectures and classes. A series of continuing education short courses for the benefit of colleagues outside the Georgia Tech community. How do you join? There are two levels of membership in the program, depending on the size of your company. The annual donation for full membership is $30,000, or equipment donations or research funding valued at $150,000. Smaller companies-that is, those with fewer than 1,000 employees or annual revenues of less than $100 million-may join as associate members and pay an annual donation of $15,000, or $5,000 with additional equipment donations or research funding valued at $50,000. Members of the Industrial Affiliates Program typically designate one faculty member as their primary technical contact, usually because that person's research is of direct interest to the company. Your donation to the Center is generally used to support a graduate student working with that faculty member. An alternative option is to designate one of the Center's specialized programs as your primary interest. For example, you may designate the Usability Engineering Program, and your funds would support the activities of that program. You would then have the opportunity to participate in the activities sponsored by that program, as well as enjoying membership in the Industrial Affiliates Program. (The specialty programs may be joined directly for a $20,000 contribution and with no membership in the IAP.) The Industrial Advisory Board Full members of the Industrial Affiliates Program are invited to nominate a senior person from their organization to sit on the GVU Industrial Advisory Board, which meets annually in conjunction with Research Review Day. Companies with full membership in the IAP are also made members in the College of Computing's Industrial Partners' Association. The GVU Center reserves the right to make changes to its programs and services available to Affiliates from time to time at its sole discretion. IAP Members *Advisory Board Representatives* Asea Brown Boveri Corporate Research Erik Sparre Digital Equipment Corporation Dorothy Redner Hewlett-Packard Research Labs Tom Christian Hitachi Research Laboratory Yoshiaki Takahashi Intel Corporation Roger Ray Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Les Belady NEC Corporation Masahiro Yamamoto Siemens AG Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt Silicon Graphics, Inc. Forest Baskett Sun Microsystems Robert (Bob) Glass Associate Members Bentley Systems, Inc. ERDAS, Inc. Affiliated Departments and Faculty/Researchers School of Aerospace Engineering Kurt Gramoll College of Architecture Chuck Eastman Anatoliusz Lesniewski Jean Wineman College of Computing Gregory Abowd Albert Badre Levien deBraal Norberto Ezquerra Nick Faust Ashok Goel Mark Guzdial Larry F. Hodges Jessica Hodgins Scott Hudson Colin Potts Ashwin Ram William Ribarsky Jarek Rossignac Spencer Rugaber Amnon Shabo John Stasko School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Nelson C. Baker Augusto Op den Bosch Office of Information Technology Mary Trauner School of Industrial & Systems Engineering T. (Govind) Govindaraj Alexander Kirlik Christine Mitchell School of Literature, Communication & Culture Anne Balsamo Jay Bolter Matthew Causey Richard Grusin Terry Harpold Kenneth Knoespel Peter McGuire Gregory VanHoosier-Carey Interactive Media Technology Center Michael Sinclair School of Psychology Richard Catrambone Gregory M. Corso Elizabeth Davis Arthur D. Fisk Neff Walker For more information about how your company can participate in the GVU Industrial Affiliates Program, please contact: Larry F. Hodges Associate Director for Industrial Relations GVU Center Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280 USA phone: 404/894-8787 or 894-4488 FAX: 404/894-0673 email: hodges@cc.gatech.edu For more information about the GVU Center: phone: 404/894-4488 FAX: 404/894-0673 email: gvu-info@cc.gatech.edu URL: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu

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