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Research Organizations in Information Technology

In an article entitled "Keeping your gaze on the goals of IT" in USATODAY (1-23-01), John Makulowich briefly describes 10 sites that focus on research in information technology.
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    A key source for top-notch publications, conferences and the views of IT experts.
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA The key R&D hub for the U.S. Defense Department, it pursues research that few companies on their own dare - that place where both risk and reward are sky-high.
  • Online Dissertation Services
    You can search and order resources at this Web site.
  • Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
    A portal for more than 600 federal laboratories and centers as well as their parent departments and agencies. Chartered by the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 to push and strengthen the commercialization of technology nationwide.
  • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    A valuable part of the Institute for gathering a perspective on IT is the IEEE History Center, which promotes the history of information and electrical technologies.
  • MIT Media Lab
    Innovative projects from world-class researchers. Laboratory projects include Electronic Publishing, Interactive Cinema, Personal Information Architecture, Tangible Media, Nanomedia, Media That Learn, Digital Life, Opera of the Future, Society of Mind and Machine Listening.
  • National Academies
    The National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council created by the federal government as an adviser on science and technology.
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory
    NIST develops many of the standards that affect the direction of IT research, including advanced information networks, digital cinema, electronic publishing, pervasive computing, computer hardware and software and digital communications ITL tests are used by IT developers and users to evaluate how products perform and to assess their quality.
  • World Wide Web Consortium
    Over the last five years, W3C developed more than 20 technical specifications for the Web. W3C activities are organized into four domains: Architecture, User Interface, Technology and Society, and Web Accessibility Initiative. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, founded W3C at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
  • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
    Xerox PARC conducts research on three strategic themes. These are Smart Matter, which explores new ways of designing and manufacturing devices; Networks and Documents, which focuses on the digital document, and Knowledge Ecologies, which delves into how knowledge in documents can be used effectively as well as new roles for documents in organizations.
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