National Science Foundation
Regional Center of Excellence for Convergence Technology
n$2.469 million over 4 years
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nAwarded August 1, 2004
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
The Problem - When students enter the technology market, they frequently discover that the silos of technology competencies they mastered in college need to be integrated in the workplace. Employers have to invest months of ramp-up training for these new college grads to help them integrate the technologies they have learned to enable them to solve real-world problems.

The Solution – A Tech

What is it? – Integration of voice, etc., is the state of the art today and the basis for tomorrow. Bringing together products and capabilities is the most serious challenge for industry – all movers and shakers have a convergence lab to model interoperability issues and to develop solutions.