Industrial Membership Companies are invited to join the Center for an annual fee or to support a specific student. By participating in the Center, Members will have access to research results well in advance of normal publication, as well as an opportunity to influence the direction of research programs and raise issues of relevance to their concerns. The interchange of faculty, graduate students, and industry scientists in a variety of roles will encourage the pursuit of research on themes of interest to both industry and academia. We expect the Center to play a key role in fostering closer interactions between the College of Computer Science and industry. Many of the faculty members of the Center have distinguished research programs supported by outside funding.
Industrial relationships provide a source of support for research and graduate students.
In addition, a dialog with practitioners in the field allows faculty to learn about their concerns and to develop opportunities for collaboration and for practical application of their research. Such a dialog is a source of new problems for basic and applied research, and contributes to the quality and applicability of research results. The existence of the Center will help us to attract high-quality graduate students in the software area, and to provide interesting problems for them and support for their research. The Center for Software Sciences provides a highly visible mechanism for industrial relationships, and helps to focus faculty efforts to form such relationships in a synergistic way. The Center has a Director and a Board of Advisors.