MemoryDAX (Memory, Differentiated Access) is an industrial affiliates program to support research into the future of computer memory and the DAM project. Corporate affiliates are a vital and integral part of project. Not only do membership fees provide essential funding for the center’s activities, but members also engage with project members to explain real world and practical challenges, collaborating with the researchers on solutions.
Members and Sponsors
Membership
MemoryDAX Membership fees are $200,000/year. Joining the MemoryDAX provides resources for the project to actively engage with affiliates. Affiliates receive invitations to project events, including the yearly MemoryDAX retreat, as well as seminars and DAM project workshops. They are also encouraged to meet and visit project members (faculty and students). Affiliates who wish hands-on collaboration may host a visiting scholar at Stanford.
It is the intention of all DAM researchers that any software developed is released under a corporate-friendly open-source model, such as the 3-clause BSD license.
Presentations from faculty site visits and annual retreats, and all information, data and results arising from such interactions are shared with all members, sponsors, and the public.
Additional Program Funding
Stanford’s rules on Industrial Affiliates Programs allow companies to provide additional funding above the MemoryDAX membership fee to support an area of on-going research within a project. All research results arising from the use of the additional funding will be shared with all program members and the general public.
MemoryDAX members may request the additional funding be used to support a particular area of program research identified on the program website, or the program research of a named faculty member, as long as the faculty is identified on the program website as participating in the DAM project.
In either instance, the DAM project directors will determine how the additional funding will be used in the program’s research.
To view Stanford policies, please see Stanford University Policies for Industrial Affiliate Programs.