ASSETS 2009

Sponsors and Partner Organizations

The ASSETS 2009 Conference would like to acknowledge the following organizations:

Sponsors

SIGACCESS

SIGACCESS promotes the interests of professionals working on research and development of computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities. The SIG membership (from both academia and industry) focuses on the application of technologies to serve the needs of persons with vision, motor, hearing, and speech impairments; cognitive limitations, including learning disabilities; and issues of ageing. Topics on advanced technologies, assistive technologies, and design form the core of the research topics. The SIG also strives to educate the public to support careers for disabled persons.

Partner Organizations

The ACM Student Research Competition Sponsored By Microsoft Research

Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognised venue for undergraduate and graduate researchers to:

• Share research results
• Exchange ideas and gain new insights
• Meet and talk with academic and industry luminaries
• Understand the possible practical applications of their research
• Perfect their communications skills

Through Microsoft Research sponsorship, ACM is able to provide more opportunities for students to present their research by increasing the number of SRC's hosted by ACM Special Interest Group Conferences.

Doctoral Consortium Supported by The National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense." In addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow. And in every case, the NSF ensures that research is fully integrated with education so that today's revolutionary work will also be training tomorrow's top scientists and engineers.

IBM Research

IBM Research is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with eight labs in six countries. Its global network of scientists work on a range of applied and exploratory research projects to help clients, governments and universities apply scientific breakthroughs to solve real-world business and societal challenges.