CWP fosters a learning environment that encourages freedom of exchange among students and faculty. Students are provided with state-of-the-art workstations and related equipment. Following completion of masters or doctoral programs, CWP graduates are frequently recruited by industry, government, and academia.

The primary support of the Center for research and graduate students comes from a consortium project underwritten by several federal agencies and thirty-five energy-related companies representing six countries. The current funding level of the Center is approximately $1,700,000 per year.

Proprietary software developed at the Center is supplied to sponsor companies. In addition, CWP creates and distributes a substantial body of free software, including the SU (Seismic Unix) processing line. SU is used by over 1,100 sites in forty countries around the world. CWP also distributes COOOL, the CWP Object Oriented Optimization Library for application of a suite of optimization techniques to appropriate problems.

The Samizdat Press, and internet archive site maintained at the Center, distributes lecture notes and books in applied mathematics and geophysics available on the WorldWide Web.

The Center enjoys an international reputation that places it among leading comparative centers around the world. It is accessible through the WorldWide Web at http://cwp.mines.edu.

Support for interdisciplinary programs in mathematical sciences is also available through the Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP).

The main objective of the Center is to study and apply advanced engineering and computer science research in neural networks, robotics, sensor/actuator development, and artificial intelligence to problems in the environment, energy, natural resources, materials, transportation, information, communications, and medicine.

The Center concentrates on problems that are not amenable to traditional solutions within a single discipline, but rather require a multidisciplinary approach. Facilities include laboratories in robotics, parallel processing, machine vision, intelligent structures, active vibration and noise control, and intelligent materials processing.

CARDI operates closely with industry to identify technical needs requiring research, cooperatively develop solutions, and generate innovative mechanisms for technology transfer.

The Center is unique in its faculty and student expertise, its facilities, and its multidisciplinary focus on intelligent systems. Opportunities exist for industrial cooperative research projects, focused on areas of specific need.

The Center can be reached through the World Wide Web at http://egweb.mines.edu/cardi/.