Corporate Partners Program

The Corporate Partners Program (CPP) is a program encouraging corporate involvement in the Department of Computer Sciences. Companies, who participate at one of three membership tiers, get involved in the everyday activity of the department. They have opportunities to speak in classes, sponsor student projects and otherwise make contact with CS students and faculty. Members of the CPP include giants of the IT industry as well as some small, specialized companies.

A subset of the Corporate Partners Program is the Corporate Partners Council. Members are executives or senior managers with select CPP companies. They meet twice each year to provide input and feedback to departmental and school leadership. Recent contributions of the council have included help in revising the undergraduate and graduate curriculums and insight in drafting the department's strategic plan. Council members include:

Abbott Laboratories - Carl Beckner

Alcoa - Jacques Vanier

AT&T - George Vanecek

Attune - Steve Ehrlich

The Boeing Company - Bob Feldmann

BP Amoco Corporation - Patrick Raycroft

Hughes Network Systems - Dennis Conti

IBM - Sanjiva Weerawarana

Intel - Kevin Kahn

Lucent Technologies - Helen Bauer

Microsoft Corporation - Rao Remala

Motorola - Jack Leifel

Raytheon Systems Company - Jerry Slater

Schlumberger - David Sims

Silicon Graphics - Rocky Rhodes

Tektronix Inc. - Craig Overhage

Thomson Consumer Electronics - Chuck Parker

Tivoli Systems - Bryan Everly

TRW - Dave Capka

ZS Associates - Dhanendra Sahay

1998
Annual Research Report

Department of
Computer Sciences