Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Wash.) will give more than $6 million in research grants to colleges and universities, including $5 million to open requests for proposals for research including HIT.
According to Microsoft, it will provide funding in the following key areas:
| · | Cell phones as a platform for healthcare ($1 million) |
| · | Biomedical computing for genome wide association studies ($700,000) |
| · | Intelligent Web 3.0 ($500,000) |
| · | Mechanisms for safe and scalable multi-core computing ($500,000) |
| · | Sustainable computing ($500,000) |
| · | Human-robot interaction ($500,000) |
Microsoft Research also announced the creation of the A. Richard Newton Breakthrough Research Award, which will provide $1 million in funding across several projects to encourage research in computational and multidisciplinary areas.
