Industrial Affiliate Memberships

Analog Devices, Inc.

DSP Hardware;

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 Company

Internetwork research, mobile networking, high-performance computing, speech and language processing;

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."