ITT Launches Academic Partnership Program

Boulder, CO – August 2, 2010 – ITT Visual Information Solutions (ITT VIS), a subsidiary of ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT), announced a new academic partnership program designed to help educators foster students’ careers in disciplines involving geospatial imagery and complex numerical data. The program, entitled “ITT Innovation Centers,” is available to any college or university in the United States and Canada offering courses that involve the use of image and data analysis software as a core component of the curriculum. Under the program, ITT may provide its partners with a number of educational benefits, including licenses of the company’s industry-leading software products for image and data analysis, ENVI and IDL, for use in classroom instruction. Other advantages include access to professional training resources and consultations with ITT representatives on course structure and curriculum, as well as the opportunity to preview and give feedback on releases of ENVI and IDL.  

 

As partners in the program, participating academic institutions will contribute to advancements in data and image analysis within the ENVI and IDL product lines, and they will provide curriculum, research and papers, and other resources of value to others in the academic community.

 

“We are pleased to introduce this program, which we have been developing in conjunction with accredited academic institutions in North America that use ENVI and IDL to create meaningful, relevant course curricula,” said Nigel Brown, Director of Academic Programs for ITT. “These partnerships will help us enable students to pursue professional positions in top commercial, government, and defense organizations after graduation.”

 

ITT has been a significant contributor to academic initiatives since IDL, its flagship data analysis product, was developed at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in 1977 and later commercialized and used extensively for scientific discovery. In the 1990s ITT introduced ENVI, a comprehensive software product for processing and analyzing geospatial imagery, and it has been widely adopted across commercial, government, and academic disciplines for its value in remote sensing applications. Both products are used today in college and university programs around the world.

 

 

ITT Corporation is a high-technology engineering and manufacturing company operating on all seven continents in three vital markets: water and fluids management, global defense and security, and motion and flow control. With a heritage of innovation, ITT partners with its customers to deliver extraordinary solutions that create more livable environments, provide protection and safety and connect our world. Headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., the company generated 2009 revenue of $10.9 billion.

 

ITT Visual Information Solutions of Boulder Colorado, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation, provides integrated software solutions that help scientists, engineers, researchers, and medical professionals turn complex data into useful information. The company’s 150,000 customers from more than 80 countries use IDL, ENVI and IAS to analyze data and imagery and deploy imaging applications. ITT Visual Information Solutions’ products are used in a variety of industries, including remote sensing, engineering, earth sciences, aerospace, defense and intelligence, medical imaging, oil and gas exploration and biotechnology. Combined with a host of support services including training, consulting and technical support, ITT Visual Information Solutions offers the most complete data visualization, image analysis and image delivery solutions available.

 

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