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TI-Rice Collaboration Highlights

For many years, TI has been committed to higher education, especially engineering, math and science. TI develops partnerships and programs to promote excellence in research, contributes financial resources, offers expertise and donates equipment – all with the specific goal to make higher education better and more accessible. In the past ten years, TI and its foundation have made grants totaling more than $75 million to colleges and universities.

In March 1996, Texas Instruments made a $7 million cash donation to Rice to fund long-term cooperative research projects in key areas of digital signal processing and information engineering. Rice became an inaugural member of TI's DSP Leadership Universities Program in 1999.  September 2000 - Dedication of Rice-TI "elite" DSP Lab (Rice News article) / June 2001 - Rice Team selected as a recipient of the Texas Instruments DSP and Analog - Challenge 2000 Territory I (Americas Division) / January 2002 - TI announces $3 million donation to DSP Leadership University Program... / July 2008 - Rice again chosen as TI Leadership University

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Rice and Texas Instruments News Features:
September 2008 - TI Awards $1 million to Rice University through Leadership University Program
March 2007 - Investing in Texas with Cutting Edge Research
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TI-Rice Tech Innovations
TI Program Supports Rice University’s Design of a Single-Pixel Camera – Thanks to new mathematics and a silicon chip covered with thousands of mirrors, Dr. Richard Baraniuk and Dr. Kevin Kelly designed a camera that creates an image by capturing just one point of light, or pixel, several thousand times in rapid succession.

TI Visiting Professors

The $1.5 million Distinguished TI Visiting Professorship endowment has brought eleven renowned professors to Rice since its inception. 

TI Graduate Fellows

More than 50 TI Fellowships and TI Distinguished Fellowships for graduate students have been awarded with the $2.5 million donated to Rice University.  The TI-Rice Fellowship Program significantly enhances our graduate program in areas of interest to TI, augmenting our existing graduate student support to:

• Greatly increase the overall quality of our DSP graduate program by setting very high standards for students named TI Fellows.
• Aggressively enhance our recruitment by increasing stipend amounts and indicating that the awards are special by designating them with the title TI Fellow and Distinguished TI Fellow
• Enable Rice to tune its DSP student recruitment to better match the future needs of TI
  

Rice faculty members and a member of the TI technical staff participate in the TI-Rice Fellowship Selection Committee.  Each year, this committee establishes the policy and selects the recipients of the award. The committee established two types of awards, the TI Fellowship and the TI Distinguished Fellowship, meeting each spring semester to review graduate applications and select the TI award recipients.

The TI Leadership University Program is a collaborative university network of three leading universities in the DSP field: Rice University, Georgia Tech, and MIT.

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