April 2, 2008
Microsoft Sponsors 10 University Projects
Microsoft Research today announced that it will award $1-million to help pay for projects from 10 universities.
Lisa Hildebrandt, spokeswoman for Microsoft Research, says they received over 200 applications for the A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award, selecting “those that focused on high-risk research that has the potential for large benefits.”
Projects included interdisciplinary research in geology, chemistry, parallell computing and synthetic biology.
A list of the winning projects is available here.—Hurley Goodall
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Some people a lot smarter than me assembled this list of projects. It is a really excellent assemblage of parallelism issues on many different levels of cognition, perception, social organization (the weakest here) and computation.
— Richard Tabor Greene Apr 3, 05:55 AM #
Too bad the funding comes from a company that makes its money by hiding knowledge, restricting its use, and hindering innovation. The link does not say whether the results of this research will be put in the public domain. Somehow I doubt it.
— me Apr 3, 08:59 AM #
I just wish I wasn’t so jaded that my first thought was to figure out how Microsoft could profit off of this…
— Dan Apr 3, 10:11 AM #
Way to go Big Ten schools! 5 awards out of 10! (FYI to the non-Big Ten readers…U of Chicago is an original and continuing member of the Big Ten, they just no longer participate in the athletic portion of the conference.)
— maryf Apr 3, 11:36 AM #
You might want to look at the RFP:
http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/ARichardNewtonAward.aspx
Selection Process and Criteria
2. Potential for wide dissemination and use of intellectual property created, including specific plans for publications, conference presentations, distance learning, etc., as well as plans to distribute content in multiple formats or languages.
— J. Apr 3, 06:07 PM #