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AT&T Labs-Research is the research arm of AT&T, and consists of three Labs: Internet and Network Systems Research, Information and Software Research, and Voice Enabled Services Research. Priorities include innovation in Speech, Access, Security, Information (Network Management and Information), eCollaboration (new services), and Enabling Infrastructure (Network and Software). AT&T Labs-Research looks to answer the fundamental questions defining the future (e.g., five years out) of communications -- What services? What networks? What systems? What technologies? What information? -- and work back to today to guide AT&T and the industry.

UC Berkeley The School of Information Management and Systems, founded in 1995, is Berkeley's newest and most interdisciplinary school. Like most professional schools, SIMS has a dual mission. Our teaching mission is to train a new generation of information managers who are skilled in organizing, manipulating, and communicating information. Our research mission is to develop a better understanding of, and tools for, information management. As SIMS faculty represent many disciplines, they pursue research in a variety of areas, this includes but is not limited to: information organization and retrieval, database management, human-computer interaction, economics of information, and intellectual property law.

The Center for Appalachian Network Access (CANA) is a sister project of 100x100. CANA's mission is to serve as a regional resource for the deployment of high speed internet access networks in underserved rural communities throughout the Appalachian region and to provide technical, operational and educational support so that these communities can take full advantage of the opportunities for economic, educational and social progress. The economic mission of CANA is to create individual, economic self-sufficient and self-operating networks. CANA will provide the network hardware and technical and managerial assistance; the communities will be responsible for operating and maintaining the system.

Carnegie Mellon University is consistently ranked among the top four Computer Science programs nation-wide. In just over 100 years, Carnegie Mellon has evolved into an internationally recognized institution with a distinctive mix of programs in computer science, robotics, engineering, the sciences, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities. More than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive an education characterized by a focus on innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration to create and implement solutions to real problems. A small faculty-to-student ratio provides an opportunity for close interaction between students and professors. While technology is pervasive on its 110-acre campus, Carnegie Mellon is unique among research universities because of its conservatory-like programs in art, drama and music in its College of Fine Arts.

Fraser Research is a nonprofit institute for communications research
located in Princeton, New Jersey. The emphasis is on fundamental research in broadband communications and the architecture of large-scale networks.

Led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government, Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnerships among academia, industry, and government that helped foster today's Internet in its infancy. For more information about Internet2, visit: http://www.internet2.edu/ .

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with Westinghouse Electric Company. It was established in 1986 and is supported by several federal funding agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private industry. PSC provides government, academic and industrial users with access to one of the country's most powerful facilities for high-performance computing, communications and data handling. PSC advances the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing, communications and informatics and offers a flexible environment to enable solving the largest and most challenging problems in computational science.

Rice University, located in Houston, is consistently ranked one of America's best teaching and research universities. It is distinguished by its: size--2,850 undergraduates and 1,950 graduate students; selectivity--10 applicants for each place in the freshman class; and resources--an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6-to-1, and the fifth largest endowment per student among American universities. Rice's residential college system builds communities that are both close-knit and diverse, and the university's collaborative culture crosses disciplines, integrates teaching and research, and intermingles undergraduate and graduate work.

Stanford University Jane and Leland Stanford established Leland Stanford Jr. University in memory of their only son, who died of typhoid at 15. Located on 8,180 acres on the San Francisco Peninsula, the university opened its doors to nearly 500 young men and women on October 1, 1891. It is organized into seven schools - Humanities & Sciences, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Business, Education, Law and Medicine - and more than 30 interdisciplinary centers, programs and research laboratories.