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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal
agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of
science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare;
to secure the national defense..." With an annual budget of about
$5.5 billion, the NSF is the funding source for approximately 20
percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by
America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as
mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is
the major source of federal backing.
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SRC is the world's leading advanced semiconductor university research consortium, with member companies and research programs spanning the globe. SRC is an indispensable part of the R&D strategies of the world's leading semiconductor companies and has proven to be a value-added research model that delivers unsurpassed advantage to its members. SRC sponsored university research is of the highest caliber and creates the knowledge and breakthroughs that will invent the industries of tomorrow.
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IBM is the world's largest information technology company.
IBM is aligned around a single, focused business model:
innovation. IBM takes its breadth and depth of insight on
issues, processes and operations across a variety of industries,
and invents and applies technology to help solve its clients'
most intractable business and competitive problems. IBM has the
world's largest IT research organization, with more than 3,000
scientists and engineers working at eight labs in six countries.
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Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software,
services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
In 1991, Microsoft became the first software company to
create its own computer-science research organization. Microsoft
Research has developed into a unique entity among corporate
research labs, balancing an open academic model with an effective
process for transferring its research to product-development
teams. Today, the world-renowned scientists of Microsoft Research
constitute one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most highly
respected software-research organizations in the world.
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The Florida Space Grant Consortium was established in 1989 and is a statewide network of colleges and universities supporting the expansion and diversification of Florida's space industry through grants, scholarships, and fellowships to students and educators from Florida's public and private institutes of higher education. FSGC is administered through the University of Central Florida, which main offices located at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation's Center for Space Education on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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Virtutech, Inc. is the leading provider of virtualized software development solutions. Virtutech's flagship solution Simics models electronic systems with high performance and fidelity, providing a programmer-friendly environment throughout the product development lifecycle. Simics eliminates software developers' dependence on hardware and drives concurrent hardware and software development.
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