Donor Highlights (UPDATED AS OF 2/2/12)

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering enjoys and appreciates its relationship with its benefactors. The following list highlights gifts given in support of the department, independent of its Industrial Affiliates Program support and scholarships. The CSE Capital Campaign pledges toward its September 2015 goal of $1 million are located at www.cse.tamu.edu/capital_campaign.

Cash Contributions

between $50,000 and $99,999

Joellyn and Raymond H. Eubank '48, Sherri and Richard H. Eubank '74, and Sheri Eubank Edwards '76 — endowment providing scholarships to full-time students in good standing pursuing a degree in computer science from Texas A&M University.

Google — identifying semantic crowds on the real-time web.

Google — Sketch Recognition research.

Lockheed Martin — Virtual Network Engineering Laboratory and development of an undergraduate course in computer security.

Microsoft Corporation — reconfigurable computing research.

Microsoft — Real Time Distributed Systems Lab.

Microsoft — Real Time Distributed Systems Lab.

Microsoft Corporation — embedded systems research.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation — Parallel XML research.

between $10,000 and $49,999

Mr. HoeGwuen Lee — HPC Lab.

Cypress Semiconductor — Interface Ecology Lab.

Boeing — CSCE 483 (Computer Systems Design) course material.

Fujitsu — C++ Research.

IBM — IBM Faculty Awards.

Institute for Software Engineers, Inc. — improvement of software engineering course material.

Microsoft — E-Science research.

Microsoft — fund studies in Human-Robot Interaction.

Nokia — embedded systems and co-design research.

Rockwell Collins — evaluation of multicore COTS microprocessors for safety critical applications

Rockwell Collins — hand-tracking recognition research.

Rockwell Collins — support for the implementation and evaluation of software-defined wireless communication system project.

TrendCom Technologies — real time distributed systems research.

between $1,000 and $9,999

Mr. Stephen O. Pace '91 — half in support of a computer science scholarship and half to the CSE Improvement Fund.

Mr. A. Ponder Paul II '93 — CSE Improvement Fund.

Chevron — CSE high school contest, Computational Thinking '09.

Chevron — student expenses to attend the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference.

Chevron — Aggie Women in Computer Science.

Chevron — and TACS.

Chevron — CSE high school contest, Internet Privacy '11.

Chevron — AWICS faulty and AWICS Senior Women Summit.

Chevron — students competing in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Fall 2011.

ConocoPhillips — CSE Improvement Fund.

ConocoPhillips — Aggie Women in Computer Science.

ConocoPhillips — Texas A&M Computing Society.

Cypress Seminconductor Corporation — embedded systems research.

Die Products Consortium — Faculty Research.

International Cultural Exchange, Inc. — Scholarship.

Lockheed Martin — CSE Improvement Fund.

Lockheed Martin — Collegiate Cyber Security Defense Student Design Team.

Lockheed Martin — undergraduate scholarships.

Lockheed Martin — scholarships.

Lockheed Martin — CSCE 483 (Computer Systems Design) course material.

Lockheed Martin — CSE student participation in the 2009 Regional ACM Programming Contest.

Lockheed Martin — student expenses to attend the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference.

Lockheed Martin — CSE student participation in the Association for Computing Machinery.

Lockheed Martin — CSE Open Access Lab.

Marathon Oil — CSE class materials.

Rockwell Collins — CSE Scholarship for sophomore or above.

Nokia — research in the areas of hypermedia, computer-supported cooperative work, multimedia, computers and education, and intelligent user interfaces.

Spectra Engergy — AWICS and UPE.

Vulnerability Research Labs — wireless communications research

up to $999

Mr. John T. Anderson '00 — scholarships.

Mr. Scott J. Beaudreau '93 — CSE Operating Fund.

Mr. Marvin J. Hamilton '51 — Department Improvement Fund.

Microsoft Matching Gifts Program (Scott J. Beaudreau) — CSE Operating Fund.

Accenture — CSE Operating Fund.

Accenture — scholarships.

IBM — AWICS Lecture Series.

LiquidFrameworks — CSE Improvement Fund.

Lockheed Martin — Aggie Women in Computer Science.

In-Kind Contributions

Allen Hurst (Improving Enterprises); Angela Okonski (Teacher St. Joseph School Bryan); Jordan Cazamias and Janice Rosado (undergraduate students in computer engineering Texas A&M); Mike and Cindy Mullen, parents ( College Station) — judges for the CSE Internet Privacy 2011 contest. Prize donations: Chevron - $2,000, USAA - $2,000, two digitals and flip cameras along with a memory cards, Best Buy gift cards, and i-Tune gift cards.

Allen Hurst (Improving Enterprises), Jeff Zachem, Arthur Peake (Dell), Ross Wright, Sam Hooker (FrogSlayer Software Company), Dr. Guofei Gu, Dr. Dylan Shell (CSE) — judges for the CSE Texting '10 contest. Prize donations: Chevron - $5000, HP - HP Photosmart 325 Compact Photo Printer/R707 Digital Camera, Dell - giveaways for the student sling bags.

Allen Hurst (Improving Enterprises), Ross Wright, Ross McDonald (FrogSlayer Software Company) — judges for the CSE Computational Thinking 2009 contest.

Ross Wright, John Januskey (Frogslayer), Selen Ustun (KBSI), Steven Loucks, Steven Doan (Schulmberger) — judges for the CSE Graphics 2008 contest.

Curtis Hite, Ed Grannan (Improving Enterprises), Eric Dean (National Instruments), Ross Wright, John Januskey (Frogslayer), Lance Elston (SunGard), Tim Doshier (Chevron), Ryan Goldfine (Reynolds & Reynolds), Danna Rother (IBM), Lynn Hewitt, Natalia Canahuati (Marathon Oil), Padu Namasivayam, Toni Smith, Najib Abusalbi (Schulmberger), Jonathan Preston (Lockheed Martin), Selen Ustun (KBSI) — May 2009 panels for computer engineering student project reviews and exit interviews.

(The) Aggies at Microsoft donated a Cybertouch Orion 42" Wide Screen USB monitor as a platform to display CSE departmental information to students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

Chevron donated the following surplus hardware to Dr. Rauchwerger, Dr. Liu, and Dr. Kerne: 64 nodes of IBM X335 servers, each of which contain two 2.4GHz 32bit Intel Processors, 4GB of RAM, and two 73GB SCSI drives; 2 racks, one terminal switch, and four PDUs.

Chevron gave the department 130 IBM X335 servers, each of which contain two 2.4GHz 32bit Intel Processors, 4GB of RAM, and two 73GB SCSI drives; four computer racks; two Terminal switches; and eight power distribution units.

Chevron donated computing equipment in fall semester 2009 valued at more than $750,000 to help the department upgrade existing storage facilities. Some of the storage is being used for research related to large-scale simulations, data processing from social networks, and the study of brain networks and neurological disorders.

Hewlett-Packard donated server equipment and desktops (valued at $250,000).

HP donated an HP ProLiant ML310 Gen 4 Server and peripherals to IEEE-Tech at Texas A&M University.