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Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is a diversified pharmaceuticals and health care company. It has over 65,000 employees and operates in 130 countries. Abbott Laboratories was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888. In 2003, Abbott had nearly $20 billion in sales.

Autofusion Corporation, founded in January 1998 and headquartered in San Diego, is a leading provider of products and services for automotive e-commerce. The company’s offerings facilitate significant sales efficiencies for dealers by helping consumers select cars and matching consumer selections with dealer inventory at the best prices.

Defense and aerospace company.

Focused on the high-growth healthcare market, Cardinal Health has built the industry's broadest suite of products and services that help improve quality, safety and efficiency all along the chain of care. With our unparalleled resources, expertise and proprietary offerings, we deliver integrated solutions that are innovative and practical. To our customers, this means we help them focus on what matters most - improving people's lives.

Conexant designs, develops and sells semiconductor system solutions that connect personal access products such as set-top boxes, residential gateways, PCs and game consoles to voice, video and data processing services over broadband and dial-up connections. Key semiconductor products include digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable modem solutions, fiber optic system-on-chips, broadcast video encoders and decoders, digital set-top box components and systems solutions, 802.11-compliant WLAN chipsets, and the company's foundation dial-up modem business.

CovX is a biotech company working on peptide linkers targeting angiogenesis.

Founded in 1951, Cubic Corporation today is the parent company of two major segments, Transportation and Defense.

Delta Design, a Cohu company (NASDAQ: COHU) in San Diego, California, is a recognized leader in the design, development, manufacture and sale of semiconductor test handling equipment. We provide process automation solutions to the back end, are the world's largest supplier of IC test handlers for logic devices, and are a major supplier of memory handlers. Delta Design's engineering and manufacturing plant is located in San Diego, CA with sales and service locations throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Our rapid growth over the past decade has made us the largest manufacturer of semiconductor test-handling equipment. Our equipment is used by IC manufacturers around the world, with a significant installation base in the Asia Pacific region.

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), founded in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, provides consulting services and enterprise decision management systems. They developed the FICO scores, a measure of credit risk, that are the most used credit scores in the world. FICO scores are available through all of the major consumer reporting agencies in the United States and Canada: Equifax, Experian, TransUnion and PRBC[1]. (FICO is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation).