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Waterborne Environmental, Inc., an environmental modeling and risk assessment company, is the latest firm to join the Private Sector Program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Waterborne will collaborate with the informatics research group led by Peter Bajcsy.

Bajcsy's Image Spatial Data Analysis group aims to automate information processing tasks that can be repetitive, laborious, and tedious and to build user-friendly decision-making systems that are fully or semi-automated.

"We're very interested in tapping the data analysis expertise that Peter's team has," said Chris Harbourt, a principal engineer with Waterborne. "We hope to learn from our partnership with NCSA's informatics team, adapt some of their tools for our market, and expand our relationship into other projects."

NCSA's Private Sector Partner Program puts the center's expertise and technological innovation to work on the real-world challenges faced by business and industry, enabling companies to reap the benefits of early access to breakthrough technologies. NCSA's partners include Boeing, Caterpillar, John Deere, Microsoft, Motorola, Rolls-Royce, and State Farm. For more information, go to industry.ncsa.uiuc.edu, or contact Merle Giles: mgiles@ncsa.uiuc.edu or 217-244-4629.