CISE features links to current programs such as advanced computational and networking infrastructure and research. The crosscutting section provides connections to interdisciplinary programs funded by the NSF and other agencies. Hard data is available in the science statistics section, where visitors will find databases and bibliographic material on information technologies and science policy analysis and research. This group's job is to take technology out of the laboratory and put it to work in American businesses and industries. Private sector firms can assess their technology or test and create prototypes through the center.
Links lead surfers to registration and information sections.
Users can also subscribe to the National Technology Transfer Center for unlimited Internet access to the organization's public databases. Subscribers can specify detailed search criteria or browse through multiple databases of federally funded technologies. Links also are available to several technology-related publications. When all of this scientific lingo gets to be a bit too much, surfers may want to visit this home page to learn how specialized Internet services are made available to the individual consumer. Users are linked directly through the site to physicians, hospitals, insurance providers and other health care organizations.