By Doug
Tattershall
Any company joining the
Industrial Partners Program before June 30 will be designated as a founding member.
Interested companies should contact computer science chairman Mirek Truszczynski at (606)
257-3961 or at mirek@cs.engr.uky.edu.
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May 12, 1999 -- (Lexington, Ky.) -- The University of Kentucky
Department of Computer Science is seeking businesses to participate in a new program that
seeks to bridge gaps between the academy and industry. The Industrial Partners Program
will seek to:
- Improve communication between computer science professors and high-tech industry.
- Enhance faculty awareness of industry needs.
- Increase industry knowledge of the computer science department’s expertise as well
as its educational, research and outreach programs.
- Facilitate technology transfer between industry and the department.
- Provide a neutral forum where industry and department representatives can exchange
information, establish relationships and discuss possible collaborations.
Any company joining the Industrial Partners Program before June 30 will be designated
as a founding member. Six corporations already have joined: Belcan Corp., DataBeam,
Lexmark, Panasonic-Matsushita Corp., Perot Systems and Procter & Gamble. Interested
companies should contact computer science chairman Mirek Truszczynski at (606) 257-3961 or
at mirek@cs.engr.uky.edu.
The UK Department of Computer Science was founded in 1966, making it one of the oldest
computer science departments in the United States. A recent report by the National
Research Council cited the department as the twelfth most dynamically developing computer
science department in the nation. There currently are 450 undergraduate and 75 graduate
students majoring in computer science at UK.
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