There are three levels at which an individual or company or academic institution can participate in Khronos Group activity, each with its own set of benefits:
- Academic Contributors have full API working group participation but no voting rights.
- Contributors - have full API working group participation and voting rights, and generous marketing benefits.
- Promoters - act as the "Board of Directors" to set the direction of the Group, with final specification ratification voting rights.
Any company is encouraged to join the Khronos Group to participate in the development of open standards for mobile and desktop media technologies.
Ajou University, established in 1973, is a leading research university with 10 colleges in Korea. Located in Suwon, about 30km south of Seoul, Ajou has 14,000 students (9,000 undergraduate, 3,500 graduate, and 1,500 in other courses). The strength in Ajou's academic programs and research lies in Engineering, IT, BT, NT, Medical Science, Business and International Studies. For more information, please visit http://www.ajou.ac.kr/en/.
Kyungpook National University provides several courses related to embedded systems and software. It also focuses on the development of high performance graphics libraries, currently by Mobile Graphics Lab(http://mobilegraphicslab.knu.ac.kr/). Many professors and researchers will join soon. For more information, please visit https://en.knu.ac.kr/.
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Department of Pervasive Computing of Tampere University of Technology uses OpenCL in various research projects. The department's Customized Parallel Computing group is an original creator of the open source project Portable Computing Language (pocl). Pocl aims to become an performance portable OpenCL implementation for all types of parallel platforms that can be used freely in all types of academic and industrial projects. For more information, please visit http://www.tut.fi/en/home.
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The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol has many research and teaching activities related to heterogeneous many-core computing and computer graphics. We are developing a number of applications and programming models that exploit OpenCL to deliver higher performance on many-core processors from multiple different hardware vendors. We also work closely with industrial partners, helping them adopt Khronos computing-oriented APIs for their own software. For more information, please visit http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/Micro/.
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