Donor Highlights (UPDATED AS OF 2/20/08)

The Department of Computer Science 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.

Mr. Scott J. Beaudreau '93 donated $150 to the Computer Science Operating Fund.

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.

Die Products Consortium donated $6,000 to Faculty Research.

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

IBM gave $45,000 for an IBM Faculty Awards.

IBM donated $700 to the support of the AWICS Lecture Series.

Mr. HoeGwuen Lee donated $10,000 to the support of the HPC Lab.

LiquidFrameworks donated $600 to the Department of Computer Science Improvement Fund.

Lockheed Martin donated $2,500 to the Department of Computer Science Improvement Fund.

Lockheed Martin donated $5,000 for CPSC 483 (Computer Systems Design) course material.

Microsoft Corporation contributed $70,000 to the support of reconfigurable computing research.

Microsoft Corporation contributed $90,000 to the support of embedded systems research.

Microsoft Matching Gifts Program (Scott J. Beaudreau) donated $150 to the Computer Science Operating Fund.

Nokia contributed $30,000 to the support of embedded systems and co-design research.

Mr. Stephen O. Pace '91 donated $2,000, half in support of a computer science scholarship and half to the Department of Computer Science Improvement Fund.

Mr. A. Ponder Paul II '93 donated $1,248 to the Department of Computer Science Improvement Fund.

Lockheed Martin donated $2,000 for undergraduate scholarships.

Boeing donated $15,000 for CPSC 483 (Computer Systems Design) course material.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation donnated $87,000 in support of Parallel XML research.

Lockheed Martin donated $2,000 for scholarships.