| PARTICIPATION LEVEL | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| BENEFIT | FULL MEMBER | ASSOCIATE MEMBER | |
| Focus Area Research Creates coherent thrusts that maximize synergy among related projects | X | X |  |
| FMA (Fellow-Mentor-Advisor) Research for more individualized projects | X | X | |
| Research Tokens: SystemX works with the company to identify a specific Focus Area or FMA research to be supported with a portion of their membership fee | 2 | 1 | |
| Annual Plenary Meeting (Fall, includes access to all sessions and discussions) | X | X | |
| Headlights Program Workshops (Winter/Spring) | X | X | |
| Internship Program1 | X | X | |
| SystemX Online Seminars | X | X | |
| On-site visits of faculty & students (Technology Research in Progress - TRIP) | X | ||
| Visiting Scholar:2 With the agreement of the Focus Area leadership, if one or more supplemental tokens are purchased, up to two tokens may be assigned to a Focus Area to support the presence of one Visiting Scholar per token. | X | ||
| On campus engagement with Stanford graduate students including interviews and events | X | X | |
| Cost of Membership (membership year is aligned with Stanford's academic year) | $193,000 | $110,000 | |
| Additional Token(s) can be added by Full Members to support an additional Focus Area(s), FMA(s), or a Visiting Scholar(s). | $83,000/Token | ||
1 For graduate students interested in internship opportunities, please visit: the SystemX Internships.
2 Visiting Scholar: Short-term residencies in accordance with Stanford's Visiting Scholar Policies.
View Stanford policies for affiliate programs
Affiliate Program members may provide additional funding. All research results arising from the use of the additional funding will be shared with all program members and the general public. Affiliate Program members may request the additional funding be used to support a particular area of program research identified on the program’s 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 Affiliate Program. In either instance, the director of the Affiliate Program will determine how the additional funding will be used in the program’s research.
The Stanford SystemX Alliance will use and develop open-source software, and it is the intention of Stanford SystemX Alliance that any software will be released under an open source model.
