Summer Academy Sponsors
The Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing is sponsored by the Alliance for Access to Computing Careers (AccessComputing), a project led by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) at the University of Washington.
Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation (CISE BPC award #CNS-0540615, CNS-0837508, and CNS-1042260), with additional funding from the following organizations:
- Johnson Scholarship Foundation
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Collaborating Partners
- Gallaudet University
- Rochester Institute of Technology (B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences, and National Technical Institute of the Deaf)
- Microsoft Corporation
- NSF Regional Alliances for Persons with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
- ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS)