Industrial Partners

We are proud of the many URCS undergraduate and graduate alumni who have gone on to careers at high technology companies, and grateful for the support we receive from our industrial partners to support our research.  Our students also benefit from on-campus visits and talks from leading research and development laboratories.


Current Industrial Research Support

  • Huawei Technologies Unrestricted Gift, Prof. Chen Ding, 2012.
  • Google Sponsorship of Undergrad CS Games Team, 2012.
  • Google Faculty Fellow, Prof. Jeff Bigham, 2011.
  • Intel Science & Technology Center for Pervasive Computing, Prof. Henry Kautz, 2011-2016.
  • Google Faculty Fellow, Prof. Kai Shen, 2010.
  • IBM Center for Advanced Studies Research, Prof. Chen Ding, 2006-2012.

Industry Events 2012

Amazon

Amazon Tech Talk by URCS alumni Jonathan Norwood, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 10-11:30am, CSB 601.  Open to all students and faculty.

Google

Google Faculty Lunch with URCS PhD alumni Mayur Thakur, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 12:15-1:15 pm, CSB 632.  Open to all CS faculty.
Google Tech Talk, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 6:30-7:30pm, Dewey 1-101.  Free giveaways and food. All welcome!
Google reps talk with undergrad students about staying competitive in your job search, Tue 31 Jan 2012, 11-12noon and again 2:15-3:15pm, CSB 633 (Majors Lab).
Google reps talk with graduate students, Tue 31 Jan 2012, 3:30-4:30pm, Grad Lounge.

New York Times

Computational Journalism talk by UR alumni Brad Stenger, Tue 31 Jan 2012, 5:00-6:00pm, Wells-Brown Room, Rush Reeves Library.  Open to everyone.
Meeting with graduate and undergraduate students, Wed 1 Feb 2012, 11:00-12:00noon, CSB 701.