Accenture
Accenture is a global consulting firm with many Boston College alumni throughout its ranks. The Accenture Fund has supported the EagleEyes Project from the beginning, recently by funding Computer Science and Information Systems students to serve as research assistants on the project. These students have worked with the EagleEyes children and developed much of the software they use. We are most grateful for Accenture’s continuing support.

Campus School Volunteers
The Campus School Volunteers are one of the largest student organizations at B.C. They raise money and volunteer time for the Campus School and for the EagleEyes program. They serve as buddies for many of the children and financially support educational and social activities. Campus School Volunteers: You’re fantastic!

Christopher Reeve Foundation
“What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have – and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.” – Christopher Reeve

The Christopher Reeve Foundation is committed to funding research that will help find a cure for paralysis and to fund projects that will “improve the quality of life for people living with disabilities.” The Foundation recently provided a grant to the Campus School EagleEyes Project to “train parents, teachers and other direct care providers to use EagleEyes technology as an instructional tool to help non-verbal students with quadriplegia access the regular school curriculum.”

Mary Kaye Waldron Quality of Life Foundation
The Mary Kaye Waldron Quality of Life Foundation has provided a grant to allow children with disabilities in Massachusetts to use EagleEyes to continue their schooling. Mary Kaye Waldron was an undergraduate at Boston College who passed away shortly before her graduation in 1995, after battling cancer for six years. Her joyous approach to life was an inspiration to everyone who knew her. Through the Foundation’s generous support, a number of students at the Campus School at Boston College and elsewhere in the state are able to use EagleEyes in order to improve the quality of their life.

Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in Cambridge, MA is one of the outstanding corporate research laboratories in the world in computer and communication technologies. After a technical talk at MERL on EagleEyes by Prof. Gips in 2002 and visits to B.C., The Philanthropy Committee of MERL has very kindly been making donations to the EagleEyes Project at Boston College. The donations are matched by the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation. MERL and MEAF have been consistent supporters of EagleEyes, for which we are most grateful.

Reebok
Casey Dunn is a senior at Boston College with a major in Finance and Accounting. Last September, Casey went to an event hosted by Reebok, at the company’s headquarters in Canton, MA. At the event, students had an opportunity to participate in Reebok’s “How Can I Make a Difference” essay contest. Casey wrote about EagleEyes. Casey first learned about EagleEyes during his freshman computer course with Prof. Gips. During the course Prof. Gips discussed his research and Casey recalled “being fascinated by the idea that people with limited motor skills would be able to operate a computer.” The essay was a winner and as a result Reebok made a donation to the EagleEyes Project. Thanks, Casey and Reebok!

Boston College
Boston College has been most generous in supporting the EagleEyes Project from its inception. Most of the funding for the project comes from the university. Faculty from Computer Science, Education, Fine Arts, Management, Nursing, and Psychology have participated as have undergraduates and graduate students from many disciplines and administrators and staff from throughout the university.