Eugene A. Fitzgerald

The Materials Research Society is an international, interdisciplinary science community that offers materials science journals, meetings, and outreach. Founded in 1973, the society is headquartered in Warrendale, PA and has over 11,200 members from more than 90 countries around the world. The society includes people from both developed and developing nations and has subcommittees for early career, student, and university chapters. The society explores the connections between the discovery of new materials and the development of technologies and social structures worldwide.

AmberWave Systems Corporation was founded in 1998 to answer the market demand for a technology development organization that could commercialize Silicon Germanium-graded buffer technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since the beginning, AmberWave Systems has been focused on building bridges between advanced materials science developed at leading universities and industrial applications. AmberWave Systems continues to develop industry partnerships to explore applications of its innovations. These relationships have led, for instance, to the development of Strained Silicon, a technology that is now used at the heart of advanced microchips to improve performance and decrease power consumption. AmberWave Systems has expanded the number of both its university partnerships and its industry partners. The company's current materials platforms encompass applications as diverse as next-generation semiconductor memory, solar energy and advanced battery technologies. From the success of the commercialization of Strained Silicon in the CMOS semiconductor industry, to current work on advanced materials for the 21st Century, AmberWave Systems is leading the way in materials science and applications. At AmberWave Systems, using an intellectual property business model of innovation, patenting, licensing and tech transfer was recognized early on as the best way to achieve efficiency in bringing new materials to users. This IP model has been successful at bringing the company's first technology platform SiGe for strained silicon to the consumer; it is dedicated to the continued effective use of this model.

Contour Semiconductor, Inc. designs and manufactures non-volatile memory chips and related products. It offers its solution for storage applications, such as digital photographs, movies, music, and data files. The company was founded by Daniel R. Shepard in June 2000 and is headquartered in North Billerica, MA.

Part of BayWeb, Inc., Paradigm Research, Inc. provides software developer training programs. The company is based in Burlingame, CA. Paradigm Research was acquired by BayWeb, Inc. on April 11, 2000.

The Water Initiative LLC provides enterprise-based water solutions. Its products include filtered hydration bottle, watercura portable filter, bottle replacement filter, portable replacement filter and countertop filter. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Bell Laboratories provides research and development services. It provides communications technologies including transistors, digital networking, signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communication satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing and modems. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology engages in research and development in life sciences. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Singapore.