Deadline: March 2, 2009
Notification: April 27, 2009
Award: $50,000-$75,000
CFP: http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/HPL_IRP_RFP_2009.pdf
To accelerate innovation and deliver business impact, HP Labs takes a collaborative, entrepreneurial approach with thought-leading customers, universities and governments. As the exploratory and advanced research group at HP, we pursue a broad range of scientific and technological directions. Our goal is to deliver simple, valuable technology experiences to people and businesses worldwide.
The HP Labs Innovation Research Program is designed to create opportunities — at colleges, universities and research institutes around the world — for breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Through this open Call for Proposals, we are soliciting your best ideas on a range of compelling topics with the goal of establishing new research collaborations.
Program guidelines are provided below. Research proposals with budgets will be accepted via the Web beginning 2 February 2009. Participants must provide their institution’s written acceptance of program terms and conditions as part of the proposal-submission process. All proposals must be received no later than 5 PM Pacific Time on 2 March 2009.
Awards under the 2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Program are primarily intended to provide financial support for a graduate student to assist the Principal Investigator conducting a collaborative research project with HP Labs. Consequently, awards will provide cash support for one year in the range of USD $50,000 to $75,000, including any overhead. Larger or partial awards may be made, and awards may be renewed for a total project duration of up to three years, based on research outcomes and HP business needs. Supported projects will be expected to begin in August 2009. HP Labs anticipates that award recipients and their graduate-student researchers will be invited to an HP Labs Open Innovation Summit planned for late 2009.
Research Topics
HP Labs is seeking compelling projects in a variety of areas that reflect HP’s broad industry presence and research themes. The research topics for the Innovation Research Program 2009 Call for Proposals are listed below. Complete information for each research theme and topic is available for download at: www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/topics_2009.html
Analytics
Topic 1: Analytics for Security, Business, Customer Behavior, and Personalization
Cloud
Topic 2: Cloud Computing
Topic 3: Social Computing: Extracting Knowledge and Value from Collective Intelligence
Content Transformation
Topic 4: Content Enablement
Topic 5: Robust Identification, Extraction, and Classification of Informative Multimedia Content in Web Pages
Topic 6: Nano-scale Fabrication for Display Applications
Digital Commercial Print
Topic 7: Dielectric Barrier Discharges in Electrophotography
Topic 8: GPU-Completeness: Codifying the Capabilities/Limits of GPU Acceleration
Immersive Interaction
Topic 9: Novel Sensors and Algorithms for Immersive Interaction
Topic 10: Affordances for Gestural Control in Immersive Human-Computer Interaction
Information Management
Topic 11: Challenges in Enterprise Analytics and Scalable Graph Mining
Topic 12: Ontology-driven and Ontology-oriented Approaches for Working with Text
Intelligent Infrastructure
Topic 13: Intelligent Infrastructure
Sustainability
Topic 14: Computational Methods for Sustainable Management of IT Systems
Topic 15: Systemic Assessment and Modeling
