Virtual Earth Academic Research Collaboration RFP
Gary Price at Resource Shelf shares the details on this Micrsoft Virtual Earth Collaboration opportunity:
Microsoft Research External Research and Programs is pleased to announce a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP): Virtual Earth Academic Research Collaboration.
This Request for Proposals is in support of Virtual Earth’s collaboration with the academic research community.
Submission deadline
The RFP due date is February 16, 2007, 5pm PST (-8 UTC/GMT)Awards
The total amount available under this request for proposals (RFP) is US $400,000. Microsoft anticipates making approximately 8-14 awards in the range of $20K-$60K.RFP highlights
To advance academic research and publication in the area of Local Search and, more generally, in digital photography, 3D graphics, computer vision, visualization and location-based tagging, Microsoft intends to make available to RFP awardees ground images.This RFP invites submission of research proposals for projects which focus on the Local Search research area and describe innovative research using the ground images and the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK at in bold, novel, and unconventional approaches to explore Local Search and related technologies, including interdisciplinary research.
