The Globalization Research Center (GRC) was set up jointly by GSTI and Sun Microsystems to keep abreast of developments in the surging field of translation technology. The center assists companies and organizations in their efforts to identify and adopt computer-assisted and machine- translation tools suitable for their localization and multilingual documentation requirements. This information is further utilized to support GSTI's efforts to integrate instruction in the appropriate application of translation tools into its intermediate and advanced translation courses. To date, the GRC has established significant educational partnerships with the Logos Corporation, Passolo, Sun Microsystems, Trados, Welocalize, and other major translation tool users and vendors.