Mobile Life Guard, IDecideFast among intriguing NSF award recipients
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen 21 teams for its first Innovation Corps (I-Corps) awards, which puts $1 million+ into the hands of a broad range of innovators looking to assess their commercial readiness of their creations.
Each team, in fields such as engineering, computer science, biology, math/physical science, education and social/behavioral/economic sciences, gets $50K. The NSF intends to pick up to 25 such teams each quarter to assess whether ideas developed using basic research have market viability.
Among those perhaps most intriguing to computer/networking pros:
IDecideFast – A web-based application for effective decision making for the layperson Principal Investigator: Ali Abbas (aliabbas@uiuc.edu); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Ill.
Mobile Life Guard Principal Investigator: Ram Dantu (rdantu@unt.edu); University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Commercialization Feasibility Research and Demonstration Preparation for Privacy-Preserving Location Based Services Principal Investigator: Nan Zhang (nzhang10@gwu.edu); George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Mobidemics: Using Mobile Gaming for Healthcare Principal Investigator: Nilanjan Banerjee (nilanb@uark.edu); University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ark.
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