MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Research in a variety of areas in computer science. Description of research, publications, and news.
http://www.csail.mit.edu/
Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
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SEI is a federal research center whose mission is to advance the state of the practice of software engineering to improve the quality of systems that depend on software. SEI accomplishes this mission by promoting the evolution of software engineering from an ad hoc, labor-intensive activity to a discipline that is well managed and supported by technology.
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/