At its heart, HP is a technology company, fed and fueled by progress and innovation. As Hewlett-Packard's central research organization, HP Labs' job is to invent for the company's future. The majority of HP's research is conducted in our business groups, which develop the products and services we offer to customers. HP Labs' function is to deliver breakthrough technologies and technology advancements that provide a competitive advantage for HP, and to create business opportunities that go beyond HP's current strategies. The lab also contributes to HP strategy creation and alignment and invests in fundamental science and technology in areas of interest to HP.

In the heart of New York Citys Little Italy, Honeybee Robotics creates robots, flight subsystems, automated drills and other machines destined for work on Earth, Mars, and beyond. Founded in 1983 as a systems integrator using off-the-shelf robots, the company quickly gained a reputation for its innovative design skills and creative problem solving. Honeybee received its first NASA contract in 1986 and has subsequently worked on more than 90 others in addition to completing projects for the Department of Defense and companies such as Coca Cola, Con Edison, 3M, Nike, and IBM. Honeybee is a privately held company that is headquartered in New York City. Honeybee Chairman, Stephen Gorevan, was named Co-Investigator for the Athena Science Payload on NASAs 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission. He will be stationed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, along with five other Honeybee engineers, to operate the Rock Abrasion Tool for the length of the mission. Honeybee Robotics is a NASA-approved provider of space flight hardware.

The IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for the IBM Research Division -- the largest industrial research organization in the world with 8 labs worldwide. Established in 1961, the Watson Research Center is located in Westchester County, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts and spans 3 sites and 4 buildings -- the main laboratory in Yorktown Heights, 2 buildings in Hawthorne, and 1 building in Cambridge. An approximate 1,790 people are employed between these 4 facilities. The research focuses primarily on physical and computer sciences, semiconductors, systems technology, mathematics and information services, applications & solutions.

In operation since 1949, the INL is a science-based, applied engineering national laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's missions in nuclear and energy research, science, and national defense. The INL is operated for the Department of Energy (DOE) by Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) and partners, each providing unique educational, management, research and scientific assets into a world-class national laboratory.

The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) is the foremost business association of leaders in research and development (R&D) working together to enhance the effectiveness of technological innovation in industry. Founded in 1938 through the National Research Council, IRI comprises senior executives from a diverse range of industries whose Member Companies are investing over $100 billion annually in R&D worldwide. IRI is the leading cross-industry organization providing the R&D community with insights, solutions and best practices in innovation management developed through collaborative knowledge creation. Through its award-winning journal, Research-Technology Management, IRI publishes the findings of members' research and their experiences.

The primary mission of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) is to foster excellence in interdisciplinary research and education at the University of Maryland. The Institute strives to provide an environment in which both theoretical and experimental research can flourish. Current research programs are in the areas of Chaotic Dynamics, Chemical Physics, Optical Physics, Space and Upper Atmospheric Physics, Scientific Computation, and Statistical Physics. The Institute takes pride in the fact that one third of the Distinguished University Professors on campus hold appointments in IPST and that several of its faculty are members of the National Academy of Science.

The Institute sponsors programs which encourage the growth and development of the emerging field of quantum information science. Quantum information science (QIS) is a new field of science and technology which draws upon the disciplines of physical science, mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Its aim is to understand how fundamental physical laws can be harnessed to dramatically improve the acquisition, transmission, and processing of information. We founded the Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) to catalyze and stimulate QIS research. We sponsor a vigorous visiting scholars program, develop and teach novel QIS-based courses, hold regular interdisciplinary seminars and workshops, mentor Ph.D. thesis research, and support undergraduate research internships.

The Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy is a public, non-profit corporation dedicated to the development of local understanding of issues concerning science, technology and society (STS). The Institute promotes debate on technology-related policies and works to plan and implement those policies that take full advantage of technological opportunities for the benefit of humanity.

ISR's research philosophy is that design and control methodologies can be developed to integrate components and technologies. At the heart of ISR's research agenda is a drive to advance and exploit fundamental methodological tools for solving systems engineering problems, including intelligent control; modeling and optimization; communications and signal processing; computing; operations research; human factors; reliability and risk assessment; and systems integration.

Long range research focused on emerging and disruptive technologies.

The IAEA is the world´s center of cooperation in the nuclear field. It was set up as the world´s "Atoms for Peace" organization in 1957 within the United Nations family. The Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies.

Scientists in a variety of disciplines (e.g., biology, ecology, astronomy) need access to scientific data and flexible means for executing complex analyses on those data. Such analyses can be captured as 'scientific workflows' in which the flow of data from one analytical step to another is captured in a formal workflow language. The Kepler project's overall goal is to produce an open-source scientific workflow system that allows scientists to design scientific workflows and execute them efficiently using emerging Grid-based approaches to distributed computation. Kepler is based on the Ptolemy II system for heterogeneous, concurrent modeling and design. Ptolemy II was developed by the members of the Ptolemy project at UC Berkeley. Although not originally intended for scientific workflows, it provides a mature platform for building and executing workflows, and supports multiple models of computation.

Knowledge Media is about the processes of generating, understanding and sharing knowledge using several different media, as well as understanding how the use of different media shape these processes. The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) was set up in 1995 in recognition of the need for the Open University to be at the forefront of research and development in a convergence of areas that impacted on the OU's very nature: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies, and Multimedia. We chose to call this convergence knowledge media.

The Laboratory For Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology brings together collaborating faculty and staff in 13 departments to address the complex interrelationships between energy and the environment, and other global environmental challenges.

Labs21 is a voluntary program dedicated to improving the environmental performance of U.S. laboratories. The primary guiding principle of the Labs21 program is that improving the energy efficiency and environmental performance of a laboratory requires examining the entire facility from a "whole building" perspective. Adopting this perspective allows laboratory owners to improve the efficiency of the entire facility, rather than focusing on specific laboratory components. Labs21 is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.