From Microsoft Subnet:
Microsoft Research will invest more than $6 million in academic collaboration. This hefty budget is for research grants to the university set. It has specifically said it will fund projects in the following areas: Cell phones for healthcare services in rural areas; biomedical computing for the genome project, particularly projects that help with data usage and analysis; intelligent Web 3.0 – sometimes called the semantic Web – projects that develop context-aware models of information access; multi-core computing, particularly projects that show how operating systems can scale; Sustainable and energy efficient computing; and the most fun area of all – human-robot interaction.
