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THE CDSP INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES PROGRAM

The Industrial Affiliates Program at the CDSP Center is designed to promote collaboration, interaction, and information exchange between industry and the faculty and graduate students of the Center that is customized, responsive, and long-term.
There are two distinct types of affiliate membership: Supporting Members and Collaborating Members. Collaborating Members join either at the Partner Level or the Sponsor Level.
  • Supporting Members
    CDSP Supporting Memberships are designed to enable member companies to interact with faculty and students without a committment to a research collaboration. The emphasis is on communication between the CDSP and industry, both in terms of the results of CDSP research activities and also in terms of potential employment opportunities for CDSP students.
CDSP Supporters benefit from:
- Access to, and interaction with, CDSP graduate students and alumni. We are developing a formal structure to increase interaction between affiliate members and CDSP students, and to facilitate communication concerning temporary and permanent employment opportunities. This structure includes:
  • electronic posting to CDSP students and alumni of job openings through CDSP email and Web facilities,
  • active circulation to affiliate companies of information about students nearing graduation,
  • active participation in the CDSP workshop, and waiver of workshop fees for member employees,
  • site visits by members to CDSP, or by a group of CDSP faculty and students to members,
  • invitation to the CDSP annual workshop and all CDSP seminars and special events,
  • facilitation of summer internships and other temporary employment, and
  • other forums as seems appropriate.
- Increased visibility through CDSP affiliation. Affiliate members are entitled to:
  • having a stand for recruitment of CDSP students at the annual CDSP workshop, and
  • acknowledgment of the company's support of the CDSP Center on our web page and on appropriate CDSP publications.
- Direct access to the Center's research results. Affiliate members receive copies of the CDSP Newsletter, and upon request, expedited access to CDSP technical reports.
  • Collaborating Members
    CDSP Collaborating Memberships are designed to enable investigators from the affiliate company to interact with faculty and graduate students on MS and PhD thesis research topics of mutual interest. Collaborating Members have the opportunity to provide research directions and to participate in joint university-industry proposals and research projects. In addition, CDSP Collaborating Members are entitiled to all the benefits enjoyed by Supporting Members.
There are two levels of Collaborating Membership, Partner Level and Sponsor Level.

- Partner Level Membership is designed to promote research interaction between the corporate member and the Center while allowing maximum flexibility to meet the specific objectives of members of any size or industrial sector. This interaction might include support of a graduate student, often working at the member's site, or support of a CDSP faculty member to initiate interaction potentially leading to Sponsor Level Membership or to a research proposal to an outside funding agency.
- Sponsor Level Membership is designed to support intensive research collaborations between corporate members and CDSP faculty and students. It includes 12 month support of a graduate student and support of his/her faculty advisor to participate actively in the project. A representative of the corporate affiliate member acts as a co-advisor for the student, thereby participating on a regular basis in determining the research direction of the student.
If you are interested to receive more information and an application form, please email to tadmor@ece.neu.edu, Professor Gilead Tadmor, Director of the CDSP Center.
The activities of CDSP are supported by industrial-affiliate memberships by
CDSP Member Companies' Profiles

Analog Devices, Inc. is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of high-performance analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs) used in signal processing applications. Approximately 40% of Analog's revenues come from the communications market, including products for wireless applications and high-speed access to the Internet. ADI also serves the PC, high-end digital entertainment and industrial markets. Analog's products include analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, amplifiers, power management devices, interface circuits, radio frequency (RF) ICs and DSPs.

The Company is headquartered near Boston, in Norwood, Massachusetts, and has manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, California, North Carolina, Ireland, the Philippines and Taiwan. Design and development centers are located in eight U.S. states and outside the U.S. in Ireland, Canada, England, Israel, India, China, and Japan. Founded in 1965, Analog Devices employs over 8,000 people worldwide. The Company's stock is publicly traded (NYSE: ADI) and is included in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

BBN Technologies/Verizon Communications For over 50 years, the name BBN has been synonymous with technical diversity and innovation. BBN has pioneered a number of firsts: the development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of today's Internet; the first packet switch; the first router; the first network e-mail using the @ sign; and the first real-time software for large-vocabulary speech recognition. Today, BBN, which is part of Verizon Communications, continues to conduct leading-edge research and development of advanced technology solutions for the information age. These technology areas include speech and language processing; wireless and satellite networking; network architecture and management; information security; system integration; distributed, collaborative applications; structural acoustics; sensor signal processing; and real-time, multiprocessor systems. BBN Technologies received the 1999 IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition award for "pioneering contributions to computer networking technology through the development of the first packet switch, the ARPANET Interface Message Processor, and the Terminal Interface Message Processor." More information about BBN can be found at http://www.bbn.com.

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