i should note that yahoo has been extremely supportive of a few of the ictd projects at uw. i encourage you to submit proposals with "socially conscious" angles!
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 18:58, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at gmail.com> wrote: > * > Yahoo!'s 2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program > * > This is your chance to get an inside look at the big challenges Yahoo! > research scientists are working on while driving your research forward. > Learn more about the real-world problems facing our industry, then focus on > and solve these fundamental challenges alongside the top minds in the field. > > We invite PhD students working in each of our core research areas to review > the challenges listed below and submit an application between January 24th - > March 11th, 2011 to be considered for the Key Scientific Challenges Program. > > *Program Award Benefits* > > - $5,000 unrestricted research seed funding which can be used for > conference fees and travel, lab materials, professional society membership > dues, etc. > - Exclusive access to select Yahoo! datasets > - The unique opportunity to collaborate with our industry-leading > scientists > - An invitation to this summer's exclusive Key Scientific Challenges > Graduate Student Summit where you'll join the top minds in academia and > industry to present your work, discuss research trends and jointly develop > revolutionary approaches to fundamental problems > > http://www.labs.yahoo.com/ksc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20110104/91b5feec/attachment.html>
