If you are very convinced of the worth and innovativeness of your approach (and can link into an educational/research institution), check out: http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/ARichardNewtonAward.aspx
"Computing has become indispensable for addressing many difficult and previously unsolvable problems facing the sciences and human society today. Finding answers to certain important questions requires expertise from multiple disciplines enabled by powerful computational advantages. Genomics, neuroscience, and astronomy have all become computational sciences, creating significant breakthroughs in the understanding of hereditary disease transmission, the workings of the human brain, and the birth of the universe. Specifically, novel projects are sought employing innovative computational approaches, and which may also include special knowledge and techniques from other disciplines to produce results of potentially great impact to the research community and society. Microsoft invites proposals for breakthrough research projects. Breakthrough, in this sense, refers to projects which clearly leverage innovative computational techniques and advantages at the heart of the research, and which may integrate approaches from multiple disciplines. Additionally, projects considered breakthrough demonstrate potentially high impact by solving problems of great importance or by inventing promising new approaches for enabling their solution. Successful breakthrough research applications will demonstrate: Problem solutions with potentially profound impact for the sciences and human society. Innovative computational approaches providing unique advantages for the problem solution. Highly creative problem solving strategies, which may also integrate knowledge and expertise from several domains to solve otherwise intractable problems. The PI’s successful history of leveraging diverse, specialized expertise, novel approaches, and collaboration with other researchers. The total amount available under this request for proposals (RFP) is US $1,000,000. Microsoft Research anticipates making approximately ten to twelve awards, with a maximum of $100,000 for any single award. All awards will be made in $US. Microsoft Research will take into account the reasonableness of the amount requested in any proposal in light of stated deliverables, local costs, etc., and reserves the right to fund proposals at an amount lower than requested if appropriate. Note that you must publish your findings... Research Associate: CITANDA Post-Graduate Section Head Department of Information Systems Phone: (+27)-(0)21-6504256 Fax: (+27)-(0)21-6502280 Office: Leslie Commerce 4.21 ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=68527115-b8df2f
