The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program, opened its doors in January 1986. Since then, NCSA has contributed significantly to the birth and growth of the worldwide cyber infrastructure for science and engineering, operating some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and developing the software infrastructure needed to efficiently use these systems
Established in 1990, Sun Microsystems Laboratories is the applied research and advanced development arm of Sun Microsystems, Inc., with locations in California and Massachusetts. Sun Labs is one of the ways Sun invests in the future -- the Labs is responsible for many of the technology advancements and inventions that have made Sun a technology powerhouse
The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL, was formed on July 1st, 2003 by the merger of the Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Laboratory for computer Science, each with four decades of rich history. In so doing, the merger created the largest interdepartmental laboratory on campus, with nearly eight hundred members and ninety-plus principal investigators. The primary mission of CSAIL is research in both computer science and artificial intelligence
