R&D Resource Links

Computerworld - Where are the cutting-edge tools of tomorrow being developed? What follows is a listing of research groups, as well as corporate, university and government labs and research facilities, where technologies such as those honored in this year's Computerworld Horizon Awards are being developed.

Research Groups


An association of more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering and related fields, as well as laboratories and centers in industry, government and academia engaging in basic computing research, and affiliated professional societies.

The Computing Research Association
www.cra.orgComputing Research Association Policy Blog
www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog
Blogs on the CRA Web site featuring advocacy and policy analysis for the computing research community.

Computing Research Association Advocacy Network
www.cra.org/govaffairs/advocacy/cran
An electronic mailing list maintained by the CRA through which participants receive timely information about key advocacy opportunities.

Computing Research News
www.cra.org/CRN
Published five times a year by the CRA. Back issues are available online.

CRA Bulletin
www.cra.org/cra-bulletin
Provides pointers to reports and other information that might be of interest to computing researchers, students and administrators. Topics covered include CS/CE student and faculty demographics, salaries, R&D and the IT workforce.


Commercial and Corporate Research Facilities

Accenture Technology Labs
www.accenture.com

AT&T Labs
public.research.att.com

Bell Labs
www.bell-labs.com

Fujitsu Laboratories of America
www.fujitsu.com/us/about/other/fla

Hewlett-Packard Labs
www.hpl.hp.com

IBM Research
Almaden Research Center www.almaden.ibm.com

IBM Research
Watson Research Center www.watson.ibm.com/index.shtml

Intel Research
www.intel.com/research

McAfee AVERT Labs
www.networkassociates.com/us/security/resources/home.htm

Microsoft Research
research.microsoft.com

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
www.merl.com

NEC Laboratories America
www.nec-labs.com

NTT DoCoMo USA Labs
www.docomolabs-usa.com


Ricoh Innovations
rii.ricoh.com/ca_research_ctr.html

Siemens Corporate Research
www.scr.siemens.com

SRI International
www.sri.com

Sun Microsystems Inc.
Sun Labs research.sun.com

Telcordia Technologies Applied Research
www.argreenhouse.com

Palo Alto Research Center Inc.
www.parc.com

University Research Labs

Computer Research Association Forsythe List
www.cra.org/reports/forsythe.html
A searchable database provided by the CRA that lists academic departments that grant Ph.D.s in disciplines related to computing in the U.S. and Canada.

Berkeley Multimedia Research Center
bmrc.berkeley.edu

Brown University
Research areas and centers www.cs.brown.edu/research


California Institute of Technology
Research projects at the Center for Advanced Computing Research
www.cacr.caltech.edu/research/index.cfm

Carnegie Mellon University
Research areas and centers www.cs.cmu.edu/research

Columbia University
Research areas www.cs.columbia.edu/research/areas

Cornell University
Research areas and projects www.cs.cornell.edu/Research/index.htm

Duke University
Research areas www.cs.duke.edu/dept_info/events/index.php

Georgia Institute of Technology
Research areas and centers www.gatech.edu/research


MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
www.csail.mit.edu/index.php

MIT Media Lab
www.media.mit.edu/research/index.html

Northwestern University
Research areas www.cs.northwestern.edu/research/research_groups.php

New York University
Research areas cs.nyu.edu/web/Research/Groups

Ohio State University
Research groups and projects cse.osu.edu/research/

Pennsylvania State University
Research areas www.cse.psu.edu/research

Princeton University
Research areas www.cs.princeton.edu/research

Princeton University Centers, Institutes & Research Programs
www.princeton.edu/main/research/engineering

Rice University
Research Areas for the Computer and Information Technology Institute
www.citi.rice.edu/research.cfm?doc_id=4608

Other Labs at Rice
www.citi.rice.edu/research.cfm?doc_id=4609

Rice Computer Science Department Research Groups
compsci.rice.edu/research.cfm?doc_id=3465

Rutgers University
Research areas and labs www.dcis.rutgers.edu/cs/research

San Diego Supercomputer Center at U.C. San Diego
www.sdsc.edu

Stanford University
www-cs.stanford.edu/research Research areas in computer science

The University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Areas of research and research centers www.cse.buffalo.edu

State University of New York, Stony Brook
Areas of research and research centers www.cs.sunysb.edu/research

University of California, Los Angeles
Laboratories, projects and research centers www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/research

University of California, Berkeley
Research labs and centers www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Areas/Centers

University of California, Irvine
Areas of research www.eng.uci.edu/eecs/research

University of California, San Diego
Research themes www.cse.ucsd.edu/facresearch/facultyresearch.html

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research areas www.cs.uiuc.edu/research/areas.php

University of Maryland
Computer science research areas and groups www.cs.umd.edu/groups/areas.shtml

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research labs and groups www.cs.umass.edu/csinfo/groups.html

University of North Carolina
Research labs, areas and groups www.cs.unc.edu/Research

University of Pittsburgh
Research areas, centers and publications www.cs.pitt.edu/research.html

University of Pittsburgh
General research information page www.pitt.edu/research.html

University of Rochester
Research areas www.cs.rochester.edu/research

University of Southern California
Computer science centers and institutes www.cs.usc.edu/Research/default.htm

University of Texas at Austin
www.utexas.edu/computer/research/centers.html

University of Washington
Research areas www.cs.washington.edu/research

Yale University
Research areas and topics www.cs.yale.edu/research/index.html

Government Labs

Argonne National Laboratory
www.anl.gov

Army Research Lab
www.arl.army.mil/main/Main/default.cfm

The Biometric Consortium
www.biometrics.org
Serves as the U.S. government's focal point for research, development, test, evaluation and application of biometric-based personal identification/verification technology.

Brookhaven National Laboratory
www.bnl.gov/csc

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
www.fnal.gov

Information Technology at the National Academies
www.nationalacademies.org/computers

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
www.lbl.gov

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
www.llnl.gov/llnl/sciencetech

Los Alamos National Laboratory
www.lanl.gov/organization/profiles/ccs_profile.shtml

NASA
www.nasa.gov/audience/forresearchers/technology/index.html

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu

National Institutes of Health
www.nih.gov/science

National Institute of Standards and Technology
nvl.nist.gov

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
www.nrel.gov/research.html

National Science Foundation
www.nsf.gov/news/overviews

Naval Research Laboratory
www.nrl.navy.mil

NIST/MSEL Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
www.ctcms.nist.gov

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/science_technology.shtml

Sandia National Laboratories
www.sandia.gov/mission/ste

European Research Centers

European Association of Research and Technology Organisations
www.earto.org
For list of EARTO members, click here.

Community Research & Development Information Service
www.cordis.lu/en
A service provided by the European Commission, Cordis offers information about European research and innovation activities.

European Research Gateways Search (ERGO)
www.cordis.lu/ergo
ERGO is an online gateway for information about European research and development projects. It features a catalogue of R&D projects from 20 to 30 European research organizations.