The HDF Group

Established in 1909 with but nine members, the American Oil Chemist s Association has grown to more than 5,400 members in 108 countries. It establishes standards of quality among professionals in the science and technology of fats, oils, surfactants and related material. AOCS s first book was published in 1918 and the first journal in 1924. USDA Regional Research Centers were established in 1938. Members A.J.P. Martin and R.L.M. Synge pioneered partition chromatography and went on to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1952. The first AOCS World Conference was held in 1976. AOCS offers several categories of membership that include individual, corporate and student members. Each year it presents awards to recognize the achievements of individuals in the field. A Governing Board and when this is not in session an Executive Committee that interprets and executes the policies of the Board, run AOCS. It has its headquarters in Champaign, Ill.

Charmworks, Inc. is a company based in Champaign, IL, specializing in the Charm programming system, which facilitates the development of scalable applications across various computing environments, from single processors to distributed memory machines. Their innovative approach includes features such as automatic load balancing, checkpointing, and resilience, enabling applications to efficiently manage resources and handle failures seamlessly. With a focus on enhancing performance through logical decomposition, Charmworks allows for dynamic overlap of communication and computation, thereby reducing idle times and improving execution efficiency. The company's runtime system supports asynchronous execution, promoting the concurrent composition of multiple modules to optimize application performance. Generated from the website

Illinois Crop Improvement Association, located in Champaign, Ill., offers seed certification services throughout the state. It provides official seed certification and related services under a series of official memoranda of understandings. The agency provides various services, such as aflatoxin, amino acids, amylose content, and certification inspections, chemical analysis and customized adventitious presence testing. It also provides services, including extracting starch, fast-green tests for corn and cereals, and fatty acids, field inspections, food-grade hybrid evaluation tests, and fumonisin and genetic testing. The agency organizes various programs, such as in-seed conditioning workshops and golf outings. It additionally provides crop improvement inspectors for assessing the phenotypes of crops and the efficacy of hybrid seed production techniques for pollen control and isolation.