The GLORIAD Team would like to thank the following institutions for their support
United States
National Science Foundation. Congress established the National Science Foundation (NSF) with the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and to secure the national defense." With an annual budget of about $5.58 billion (fiscal year 2004), NSF funds the people, ideas and tools to boost U.S. leadership in all aspects of science, mathematics and engineering research and education. In contrast, other federal agencies support research focused on specific missions, such as health, energy or defense. GLORIAD receives NSF support through the CISE Directorate, the Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure. NSF funding invests in the future, and results include such developments as: Doppler radar, the Internet, Web browsers, American Sign Language, bar codes, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ink jet printers, computer-aided design (CAD) systems, artificial retinas, tissue engineering, buckeyballs, camcorders and motion picture special effects.
Russian Federation
GLORIAD receives support in Russia through a consortium of institutions led by the Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute , a special nationwide laboratory reporting directly to the Russian Prime Minister. The institute focuses on the safe development of Nuclear Power, controlled Thermonuclear Fusion and Plasma Processes, Nuclear Physics and Solid State Physics and Superconductivity. Additional funding is provided by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia,the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Agency of Atomic Energy
People's Republic of China
Chinese Academy of Sciences. CAS strives to build itself into a scientific research base at an advanced international level, a base for fostering and bringing up advanced Science and Technology talents, and a base for promoting the development of China's high and new technology industries. By 2010, CAS will have about 80 national institutes noted for their powerful capacities in S&T innovation and sustainable development or with distinctive features; thirty of them will become internationally acknowledged, high-level research institutions, and three to five will be world class. Since the "Ninth Five-Year Plan," CAS has implemented approximately 5,000 cooperative projects with different province, cities and scientific enterprises with 47.4 billion yuan expended annually to support all its scientific activities.
