Donor Highlights (UPDATED AS OF 11/5/09)

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.

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.

Microsoft Corporation — reconfigurable computing research.

Microsoft — Real Time Distributed Systems Lab.

Microsoft Corporation — embedded systems research.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation — Parallel XML research.

Mr. HoeGwuen Lee — HPC Lab.

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

IBM — IBM Faculty Awards.

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.

TrendCom Technologies — real time distributed systems research.

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 — AWICS.

Chevron — AWICS and TACS.

Cypress Seminconductor Corporation — embedded systems research.

Die Products Consortium — Faculty Research.

Lockheed Martin — CSE Improvement Fund.

Lockheed Martin — undergraduate scholarships.

Lockheed Martin — scholarships.

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

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

Mr. John T. Anderson '00 — scholarships.

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

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.

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.