Type of Member

Annual Fee

        Benefits

Affiliate

No less than $75,000

• Invitation to periodic reviews of CHESS.
• Access to selected internal CHESS websites.
• Access to publications, reports and presentations by CHESS researchers.
• Access to students and faculty in CHESS.
• An annual research report of the activities of CHESS.
• Advance notice of intellectual property created by CHESS.
• Intellectual property access for this level of membership

Small or Minority-Owned Business

No less than $10,000

All of the benefits of an Affiliate

Partner

No less than $150,000

All of the benefits of an Affiliate, plus the following:

• Opportunity to nominate a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of CHESS on an annual basis.
• Opportunity to place visitors, as Visiting Industrial Fellows (VIF), at the University.
• Selected early access to software developed by CHESS.  When possible, and for software projects within CHESS that use networked version control systems (such as CVS) for collaborative software development, early access to pre-release development versions of the software is available.
• Intellectual property access for this level of membership

Premium Partner

No less than $300,000

All of the benefits of a Partner, plus the following:

• Intellectual property access for this level of membership
• No more frequently than once per year, if requested by the company a private research review meeting at the University or at a mutually agreeable site. Travel and related expenses for the participants, if any, will be covered by the individual Premium Partner.