Since 1960 The Aerospace Corporation has operated a federally funded research and development center in support of national-security, civil and commercial space programs. We're applying the leading technologies and the brightest minds in the industry to meet the challenges of space.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is committed to a successful and sustainable future for 100% of humanity. Founded in 1983 and inspired by the Design Science principles pioneered by the late Buckminster Fuller, BFI serves as an information resource for concerned citizens around the world.

The Carbon Mitigation Initiative is a joint project of Princeton University, BP and the Ford Motor Company to find solutions to the greenhouse and global warming problem. Together our researchers are developing strategies to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions that will be safe, effective, and affordable.

Best known for his "INVENTIONs" cartoons, which use a string of outlandish tools, people, plants, and steps to accomplish everyday simple tasks in the most complicated way, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg's drawings point out that people are often overwhelmed by over complicating their lives. Rube Goldberg's "INVENTIONS" continue to inspire the many local and regional RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE CONTESTS culminating at the "University National Contest", which is held annually at Purdue University. This National Competition (featuring "winners" from local contests at universities and colleges all over the country) garners growing international and domestic network TV, print, and other media coverage.

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visualization Center at the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics is a state-of-the-art visualization facility for presenting and manipulating very large datasets. In addition to housing a Highly Immersive Visualization Environment [HIVE] we are involved in the development and application of the Geowall visualization system, the Optiputer project, and geoscience research.

The Council is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work.

The Computer Graphics Group is a research group within the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Our research includes scientific visualization, physically-based rendering, and computer-aided design.

The mission of the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering is to educate students for professional practice within the fields of information systems and spatial information science and engineering by offering undergraduate and graduate courses that promote creative discovery, foster teamwork and leadership and prepare students for lifelong learning.

The mission of UMIACS is to foster and enhance interdisciplinary research and education in computing across the College Park campus. Since its inception, UMIACS has played a major role at the University of Maryland in building strong interdisciplinary research programs, cutting-edge computing infrastructure, and long-term partnerships with national and international research centers. The Institute's programs are led by distinguished researchers, many of whom hold joint appointments in strong academic units such as Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Linguistics, Geography, Philosophy, Business, Education, and College of Information Studies. Since computing is at the core of all the Institute's activities, UMIACS has a uniquely close relationship with the Department of Computer Science whose graduate program has been consistently ranked very high by all national rankings. The synergistic environment provided by UMIACS enables innovative collaborations between the Computer Science faculty and other faculty on campus.

Urbanism. What is it? Planners evaluate and define urbanism with diverse criteria: vehicle-miles traveled, density, transit viability, jobs-housing balance, etc. But ultimately urbanism is about life. It's about the vitality and opportunities possible when people live together in neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities. We create visions of pedestrian-friendly, socially-interactive communities by transforming photographs with photo-editing software. The results are photo-realistic visualizations that make development visions palpably real and understandable. We help cities, community groups, non-profit organizations, developers, property owners, and transit agencies effectively communicate possibilities.

Welcome to DTRALink. This isthe official web site of the Defense Threat ReductionAgency. Our mission is to safeguard America and itsfriends from weapons of mass destruction by reducing thepresent threat and preparing for future threats.

The Missile Defense Agency's mission is to develop, test and prepare for deployment a missile defense system. Using complementary interceptors, land-, sea-, air- and space-based sensors, and battle management command and control systems, the planned missile defense system will be able to engage all classes and ranges of ballistic missile threats. Our programmatic strategy is to develop, rigorously test, and continuously evaluate production, deployment and operational alternatives for the ballistic missile defense system. Missile defense systems being developed and tested by MDA are primarily based on hit-to-kill technology. It has been described as hitting a bullet with a bullet - a capability that has been successfully demonstrated in test after test.

The Waterways Experiment Station (WES) is headquarters for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). Part of the Department of Defense laboratory system, the ERDC has as its mission to conceive, plan, study and execute engineering investigations and research and development studies in support of the civil and military missions of the Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies. Four of seven ERDC laboratories are located at the WES site in Vicksburg, Miss. Coastal and Hydraulics, Geotechnical and Structures, Environmental, and Information Technology.

Funded by The National Science Foundation, the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland is developing a set of resources to further the scientific study of the impact of the Internet on Societies. Central to this is understanding the transformative effectboth positive and negativethat the Internet has on human behavior and how the emerging persistent behaviors enable and constrain activities, understanding, knowledge, and culture.

World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.