Department of Space, Government of India represented by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

The prime objective of ISRO has been to develop space technology and its application to various national tasks. Since 1969, when it was set up, ISRO has established space systems like the INSAT for telecommunication, television broadcasting and meteorological services, and the Indian Remote Sensing Satellites (IRS) for resources monitoring and management. ISRO has also developed the satellite launch vehicles PSLV and GSLV to place these satellites in the required orbits.

Signatories :- G. Madhavan Nair Secretary, Department of Space, Government of India, and Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization Bangalore, India

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India

Department of Science & Technology (DST) was established in May 1971 with the objective of promoting new areas of Science & Technology and to play the role of a nodal department for organising, coordinating and promoting S&T activities in the country.

Signatory :- V. RamamurthySecretary, Department of Science & TechnologyGovernment of IndiaNew Delhi, India.

Indo-US Science and Technology forum (indousstf)
The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum is a binational, autonomous, not-for-profit body established under an intergovernmental agreement with the mandate to promote and catalyse U.S.-India collaborations in science, technology, engineering and biomedical research through interactions between academia, industry and government. (web site: www.indousstf.org).

Signatories :- Dr. Arabinda Mitra , Executive Director, INDO-US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORUM

AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham (AMRITA University)

This is the youngest Deemed-to-be-University in India, and the first time a college has achieved this status in less than ten years. With four campuses including school of Engineering, Business, Medical & Arts & Sciences, Amrita University
is renowned for its value-based education and leadership in various areas of Engineering, Medicine, \Management, Arts , Humanities and Applied Sciences.

Signatory: P. Venkat Rangan,Vice Chancellor AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham
(AMRITA University) Coimbatore, India

The University of California, Office of the President, Oakland, California



Signatory :- Gretchen Kalonji Director of International Strategy Development Office of the President University of California Oakland, California

The University of California at San Diego

UCSD is a powerful magnet for those seeking a fresh, next-generation approach to education and research. Since its founding four decades ago, UCSD -- one of the ten campuses in the world-renowned University of California system -- has rapidly achieved the status as one of the top institutions in the nation for higher education and research. UCSD’s interdisciplinary ethos and tradition of innovation and risk-taking underlie its research strength and ability to recruit top scholars and students.

Signatory :- Frieder SeibleDean of Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering Eric and Johanna Reissner Professor of Applied Mechanics and Structural EngineeringUniversity of California, San Diego , La Jolla, California, Ramesh Rao, Director, San Diego Division of Calit2: California Institute for Telecommunications & Information TechnologyProfessor of Electrical and Computer EngineeringQualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technology University of California at San DiegoLa Jolla, California.

The University of California at Berkeley


 


Signatories:Shankar Sastry Director, CITRIS: Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Bioengineering University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California

Calit2: California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology
Calit2 represents a new mechanism to address large-scale societal issues by bringing together multidisciplinary teams of the best minds (both on and beyond UC campuses) in a way that had been impossible earlier. Calit2 is taking ideas beyond theory into practice, accelerating innovation and shortening the time to product development and job creation. Where the university traditionally has focused on education and research, Calit2 extends that focus to include development and deployment of prototype infrastructure for testing new solutions in a real-world context.

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Throughout its evolution from trade school to internationally prominent research university, Carnegie Mellon has remained true to three primary objectives: to deliver distinctive, first-quality education; to foster research, creativity and discovery; and to use the new knowledge created on campus to serve society.Despite many changes, the Carnegie Mellon University of 2005 has much in common with the Carnegie Technical Schools of 1900. The school still encourages great thinkers with varied backgrounds to collaborate toward practical goals. It preaches collaboration and innovation across traditional barriers of knowledge, producing extraordinary individuals who leave their mark on the world. Above all, Carnegie Mellon still maintains a commitment to students, practical research and education.

Signatories :- Mark Kamlet ProvostCarnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pradeep Khosla, Co-Director, CyLabDean of Engineering, Carnegie Institute of Technology Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor College of Engineering and School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

The University at Buffalo was founded in 1846 as a private medical college and merged with the State University of New York system in 1962. Today UB is New York State's premier public center for graduate and professional education, as well as the state's largest and most comprehensive public university. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, the University at Buffalo stands in the first rank among the nation's research-intensive public universities.


Signatories :- Satish Tripathi Provost & Executive Vice President University at BuffaloThe State University of New YorkBuffalo, New York

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Once called "the first American university" by educational historian Frederick Rudolph, Cornell University represents a distinctive mix of eminent scholarship and democratic ideals.Today's Cornell reflects this heritage of egalitarian excellence. Both a private university and the land-grant institution of New York State, Cornell University is the most educationally diverse member of the Ivy League. On the Ithaca campus alone nearly 20,000 students representing every state and 120 countries choose from among 4,000 courses in 11 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools.


Signatory :- Hunter R. Rawlings III, President Cornell University Ithaca, New York.

The University of North Dakota

The University of North Dakota is one of the largest & most diversified universities in the Upper Midwest. Enrolling 13,187 students, it has long been characterized by a solid foundation in the liberal arts, an array of 10 colleges & schools, a manageable size, high-quality students & faculty, a varied curriculum, rich cultural resources, & an outstanding record of alumni support. Classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a "doctoral/research-intensive" institution, UND is among the small group of nationally important universities whose missions extend beyond undergraduate instruction to include graduate education, research, scholarship & creative activity, & public service.

Microsoft Corporation

Next-generation wireless communications is emerging as the most important technology of this millennium.To ensure that the entire wireless industry is inspired and continues to evolve, innovate and experience success, QUALCOMM develops its technologies and solutions for the purpose of enabling key participants in the wireless value chain.By partnering with and acting as an enabler to the business activities of these participants, QUALCOMM ultimately enables consumers, professionals and government entities — the end users who benefit from the success of the wireless industry today and into tomorrow.


Signatory - S. Somasegar Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation Redmond, Washington.

QualComm Incorporated

Next-generation wireless communications is emerging as the most important technology of this millennium.To ensure that the entire wireless industry is inspired and continues to evolve, innovate and experience success, QUALCOMM develops its technologies and solutions for the purpose of enabling key participants in the wireless value chain.By partnering with and acting as an enabler to the business activities of these participants, QUALCOMM ultimately enables consumers, professionals and government entities — the end users who benefit from the success of the wireless industry today and into tomorrow.


Signatory :- Jeff Jacobs President, Global Development QUALCOMM IncorporatedLa Jolla, California

Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems is the world's largest EDA technologies and engineering services company. Cadence helps its customers break through their challenges by providing leading edge electronic design solutions that speed advanced IC and system designs to volume production. Customers use Cadence software and hardware, methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, printed circuit boards and systems used in consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems.


Signatory :- Dipender Saluja Corporate Vice President Cadence Design Systems, Inc.San Jose, California.

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. It is widely considered one of the finest academic institutions in the world. Founded on September 8, 1636.A faculty of about 2,300 professors serves about 6,650 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students. The college and university rankings published annually by US News & World Report generally place Harvard at the top, primarily based on surveys of university officials and various criteria such as graduation rate, SAT scores, and alumni giving rate. Surveys of the general public in the U.S. reveal that Harvard is perceived to be the top university across the nation, while other leading schools tend to rank high only within specific geographic regions, such as the West Coast, the South, or the Atlantic. Harvard leads the nation in the number of faculty in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, an honor given to only about 2,000 most accomplished scientists.

Princeton University

Princeton simultaneously strives to be one of the leading research universities and the most outstanding undergraduate college in the world. As a research university, it seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding, and in the education of graduate students. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.

University of Washington, Seattle

The University of Washington is one of the nation's premier research universities. Every year since 1974, UW has ranked among the top five institutions in annual Federal research obligations. (Currently UW is second to Johns Hopkins, with Stanford, Michigan, and MIT in third through fifth positions. Currently UW ranks sixth among all universities nationally in industrial R&D support, fifth in the launching of startup companies, and fifteenth in private giving -- among all institutions, public and private.) The UW faculty includes more than seventy five members of the National Academies, nine MacArthur Foundation award winners, three winners of the National Medal of Science, and five recent Nobel Prize winners.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

A leading center for public higher education in the Northeast, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has gained a reputation for excellence in a growing number of fields, for its wide and varied academic offerings, and for its expanding historic roles in education, research, and public service.The flagship campus of the Commonwealth’s University system, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a major research university enrolling 24,000 students, from all 50 United States and over 100 countries.

University of California, Los Angeles

UCLA’s leadership in teaching, research, and public service makes it a beacon of excellence in higher education. Our students, faculty, and staff come together in a true community of scholars to advance knowledge, address societal challenges and pursue intellectual and personal fulfillment.

Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education.

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, the largest institution of The University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin is a major research university home to more than 48,000 students, 2,700 faculty and 17,000 staff members. From teaching and research to public service, the university’s activities support its core purpose: to transform lives for the benefit of society through the core values of learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity and responsibility.

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Illinois has tremendous breadth and depth in academics, with more than 150 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate and professional programs. A preeminent faculty propels many academic programs to be ranked among the best in the world. This emphasis on campuswide academic excellence has built Illinois' reputation as one of the nation's premier public universities.

University of Wisconsin

The University of Wisconsin is a major research university, nationally and internationally renowned for its academic excellence, resources, faculty, and commitment to undergraduate education.

Purdue University
Founded in 1869 and named after benefactor John Purdue, has an enrollment of 69,098 students; West Lafayette enrollment of 38,712 students (fall 2005); students from 50 states and 130 countries.Main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana (126 miles southeast of Chicago, 65 miles north of Indianapolis). Statewide university system includes five campuses and numerous teaching and research sites.