The Industrial Affiliates Program

The Corporate Partnerships Program at Stanford University was established in the early 1950s with the evident need for an increase in dialogue between industry and academia. The program now spans virtually all departments in the sciences and engineering. With nearly thirty years of research in the domains of digital sound, composition, acoustics, and psychoacoustics, Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) has been offering an affiliate's program for the music, audio and multi-media industry since 1987.

Full Member companies of the CCRMA Affiliates Program in 1999-2000 include:

Company	Address
Digidesign	Palo Alto, CA
Hewlett Packard	Palo Alto, CA
Interval Research Corporation	Palo Alto, CA
NTT Basic Research Labs	Kanagawa, Japan
Opcode Systems	Mountain View, CA
Yamaha Corporation	Hamamatsu-shi, Japan

Annual Open House

CCRMA holds an annual free one-day Open House in May of each year. This meeting includes selected topic presentations, tutorials, and poster sessions of current research at CCRMA. As well as being our primary means for introducing potential companies to the CCRMA Affiliates Program, the Open House also offers our students a chance to meet representatives from the various companies that we invite to the meeting. This year's meeting will take place on 23 May 2000.

Schedule for the 2000 CCRMA Open House

Membership Levels

The CCRMA Industrial Affiliates Program offers the following membership levels to meet the varying needs and resources of interested companies:

Participating Member

Membership Fee: $5000 per year
Benefits include:
- CD-ROM compendium of materials from our annual research Open House
- copies of all research reports published by CCRMA and early access to papers submitted for publication

Supporting Member

Membership Fee: $10000 per year
Benefits include:
- CD-ROM compendium of materials from our annual research Open House
- copies of all research reports published by CCRMA and early access to papers submitted for publication
- free participation in CCRMA Summer Workshops
- access to restricted portions of CCRMA's WWW site

Full Member

Membership Fee: $15000 per year
Benefits include:
- CD-ROM compendium of materials from our annual research Open House
- copies of all research reports published by CCRMA and early access to papers submitted for publication
- free participation in CCRMA Summer Workshops
- access to restricted portions of CCRMA's WWW site
- access to CCRMA courses

Student Fellowship Member, Visiting Engineer Residency

Membership Fee: $30000 per year
Benefits include:
- CD-ROM compendium of materials from our annual research Open House
- copies of all research reports published by CCRMA and early access to papers submitted for publication
- free participation in CCRMA Summer Workshops
- access to restricted portions of CCRMA's WWW site
- access to CCRMA courses
- direct sponsorship of a particular engineering student
- agreements to be worked out individually between each student and sponsor, but might include summer internship with the member company/institute and collaborative research topics
- support will be acknowledged in all PhD student publications
- allows company member residency at CCRMA

The Student Fellowship member level provides the best possible benefit to both parties, offering an enhanced means for direct interaction between your company and a graduate engineering student, and providing full financial support of a student's academic expenses. We encourage new kinds of collaborations, such as student's summer internships at member firms and visiting engineering residencies at CCRMA.

An Affiliates Program membership has a duration of one calendar year, beginning on September 1. Because these funds are used primarily to fund graduate students, it will be necessary for a company to commit to the program by July 1, in order that we have adequate time to assure students of support for the coming academic year.

If you would like to become an Affiliate of CCRMA and participate in this unique interaction between the university and industry, please contact Chris Chafe (email: cc@ccrma.stanford.edu; telephone: 650-723-4971).