2010 HP Labs Innovation Research Program CFP

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Alex Ghitza

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Dec 22, 2009, 6:12:11 AM12/22/09

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Dear sage-devel and sage-edu,

I have just found out about a funding opportunity for collaborative
research between academia and HP Labs. See the announcement at

http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2009/oct-dec/10proposals.html

At least one of the target topics could be of interest to Sage
developers:

----------------------- from the announcement --------------------------
Also new in 2010 is a collaboration between HP Labs and the HP Office of
Global Social Innovation to include a topic on Cloud Computing Services
in Education, designed to fund cloud computing service applications that
can support global transformations in education, and facilitate
innovative teaching and learning concepts.

“We are very excited about the opportunity to attract innovative
proposals through the Innovation Research Program,” said Jeannette
Weisschuh, director of HP’s Office of Global Social Innovation. “Cloud
Services in Education is a very relevant area for many educational
institutions. We aim to support the development of cloud services
applications to help closing existing gaps, to reward excellence and to
showcase some of the great solutions that are available already in the
academic community for the benefit of many more institutions.”
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Best,
Alex

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Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne
-- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/

Rob Beezer

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Dec 22, 2009, 11:59:15 AM12/22/09

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The announcement also mentions targeted topics, including:

"Rich and intuitive computing experiences for non-tech-savvy users"

Sounds to me like an excellent opportunity to fund some notebook
development, especially some of the requested features for
collaboration, or to make the notebook experience "richer."

A small group has been preparing a proposal to the US National Science
Foundation to support some education-related work with Sage, and a
draft will be posted here very soon. That might be helpful reading
for anyone interested pursuing this.

The announcement also touts the global nature of past awards. Sage
ought to be able to put together a truly global team to pursue
something like this.