2000/2001 Leadership Program

Sponsors

Recognizing the National Computational Science Leadership Program as a powerful learning opportunity for teachers everywhere, a number of national corporations stepped in and pledged generous support. Significant cash contributions were received from ACM/IEEE Computer Society, NASA, SC2000, SC2001, and the Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. to sponsor the participation of low wealth teams and underserved school systems. Cisco Systems, Inc. partnered with SBC DataComm to provide wireless network cards and wireless access points for teachers to use during the SC2000 and SC2001 Education Programs. Following the supercomputing conferences, teachers can take the wireless network cards back to their schools for use throughout the remainder of the program. Compaq Computer Corporation donated more than half of the laptop computers needed for participating teachers and computational science instructors. High Performance Systems provided copies of STELLA, a unique tool that focuses on helping students deepen and enrich their understanding of concepts and builds their capacity for generating understanding. Backing up its belief that giving teachers and students the resources they need enables them to accomplish great things, Microsoft Corporation donated MapPoint, Microsoft Office Premium, and Visio for teachers to use during the program. Program participants can also integrate into their curricula Mathematica, an easy-to-use technical computing package donated by Wolfram Research, Inc. Through use of Mathematica software, students learn to more easily calculate symbolic and numerical equations and are introduced to detailed 2D and 3D visualizations. Committed to enhancing math and science education and equipping teachers with the technology to effectively teach today's students, sponsor donations in support of the NCSLP total more than $2 million in grants and donations!

Overview of Sponsors:

Association for Computing Machinery
Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's first educational and scientific computing society. ACM's members - over 80,000 computing professionals and students world-wide — and the public turn to ACM for authoritative publications, pioneering conferences, and visionary leadership for the new millennium.

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and government networks around the world. Cisco provides the broadest line of solutions for transporting data, voice and video within buildings, across campuses, or around the world.

Compaq Computer Corporation
Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a leading global provider of enterprise technology and solutions. Compaq designs, develops, manufactures and markets hardware, software, solutions and services, including industry-leading enterprise storage and computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, communication products, and desktop and portable personal computers that are sold in more than 200 countries.

High Performance Systems
High Performance Systems, Inc. (HPS) focuses on improving the way the world works, by creating systems thinking-based products and services that enable people to increase their capacity to think, learn, communicate, and act more systemically. HPS was founded in 1985 by Barry Richmond, then a Professor at Dartmouth College. Since then, it has grown into a thriving, privately-held company with substantial global reach in the spheres of business, education, and government.

IEEE Computer Society
IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. The IEEE helps advance global prosperity by promoting the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electrical and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession.

IEEE Foundation
The IEEE Foundation strives to ensure that the search for excellence in engineering and technology will always have support and that limited financial resources will never hinder the perpetual process of education. With contributions from generous sponsors around the world, the Foundation supports IEEE activities that advance technology beyond the immediate demands of the marketplace to the benefit of humanity as a whole.

Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft's vision is to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. As the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products and services that meet customers' evolving needs.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has been adapted for many non-aerospace uses by the private sector. NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and technology in general.

National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the U.S. Government, established by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950. NSF's mission is to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense.

SBC DataComm
SBC Communications Inc. is a leader in the competitive and rapidly changing world of global telecommunications. Through its affiliated companies, SBC provides a full range of voice, data, networking and e-business services through a global network of leading brands and operations in the U.S. and 28 other countries around the world.

SC2000/SC2001 Conference
The Supercomputing Conferences Organization is a voluntary consortium of persons acting together to advance the science and application of high-performance computing technology through the offering of technical meetings and in particular, through the offering of the Supercomputing Conference (SC), the annual conference on high-performance computing and communications, at which all aspects of supercomputing can be considered.

Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit education and research corporation dedicated to the reform and improvement of mathematics and science education by the incorporation of appropriate computational and communication technologies. Shodor places a special emphasis on enabling authentic science and mathematics explorations at all educational levels, developing numerical models and simulations integrated with the curriculum, professional development, and network access to support their use in learner-centered environments.

Wolfram Research, Inc.
Through innovation and progressive growth, Wolfram Research, Inc. continues to thrive as the world's leading technical software company. Wolfram Research products maintain a reputation for innovation, power, quality, and elegance. The company's aim can be summarized: "Pushing the Envelope of Technical Computing."