PARTNERSHIPS
Adobe
Adobe`s award-winning technologies and software have refined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engage people anywhere at anytime.
Adobe provides application software and boot camp classes to Digital Media graduate program.
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris.
The Digital Media graduate program has received support from Alcatel-Lucent for the development of Next Generation Play, a project investigating combinations of existing TV IP with ubiquitous 4G handheld technology in the world of casual games.
American Film Institute (AFI)
Founded in 1967, the American Film Institute (AFI) is the nation's preeminent arts organization dedicated to advancing and preserving the art of the moving image. DM faculty and students are working with the AFI and Warner Brothers Home Video to produce a Digital Edition of Casablanca, as a prototype of the AFI Networked Classics Collection, a portal and common information architecture for the study of American film art.
Broadband Institute
The Broadband Institute at Georgia Tech is facilitating Next Generation Play, a project in the Digital Media graduate program that investigates combinations of existing TV IP with ubiquitous 4G handheld technology in the world of casual games.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is funding the development of the Virtual Theater Project. GTRI is a partner with Cisco Systems in the Virtual Theater Project.
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. EA develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet.
Global Classroom Project
The Global Classroom project technologically links student and faculty at Georgia Tech with collaborative partners at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia and the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. The project provides an experimental forum for analyzing cross-cultural, digital communication. Both in subject area study and experientially, students explore issues in this area, analyze them, and report the results of their research, experience, and analysis. More information about this project please see the current class homepage.
Intel
Intel Research is providing partial funding for Carl DiSalvo`s Neighborhood Networks project, which researches how communities might use sensing and robotics technologies to explore their local environments and publicly express and address their interests and concerns. Dr. DiSalvo is working on the project in collaboration with the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University and UPCLOSE at the University of Pittsburgh.
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation and public programs in the humanities. The NEH has provided funding for the Casablanca Digital Edition.
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
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" With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, the NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
Digital Media faculty have received major NSF grants for the following projects: Carl DiSalvo`s The City as Learning Lab, a 4-year NSF-funded collaborative design and research project with researchers at UPCLOSE at the University of Pittsburgh and the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. The project explores the use of robotics technology for learning and activism in urban contexts.
Nurun / Ant Farm Interactive
Nurun / Ant Farm Interactive, a subsidiary of Montreal-based Quebecor Media Inc., is a global interactive marketing agency, whose clients include companies and organizations such as: L'Oreal, Cingular Wireless, The State of Georgia's Department of Economic Development, Equifax, AutoTrader.com, Home Depot, SkyTeam, Telecom Italia, Louis Vuitton, Club Med, and others. Nurun / Ant Farm Interactive has partnered with Georgia Tech's Digital Media Graduate Program to conceptualize, design, and develop mobile technology applications which were demonstrated at the Spring 2006 Digital Media Demo Day. These applications will eventually help Nurun / Ant Farm Interactive provide cutting-edge, mutually beneficial technology to both marketers and consumers.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world. TBS, Inc. is based in Atlanta, GA, and employs more than 9,000 people worldwide. It is home to CNN as well as familiar entertainment networks such as TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, Adult Swim and truTV.