Microsoft awards academic grants for Virtual Earth research projects

Feb 20th, 2006 | By | Category: General

On Feb 16th, Microsoft announced the winners of its Trustworthy Computing and Virtual Earth academic grants competition. 23 grants were awarded, totaling $1 million. The maximum amount for each grant was $50,000 and 8 recipients were awarded grants for Virtual Earth RFP, which is “designed to encourage university research in areas relevant to digital geography, including spatio-temporal databases, routing, computer vision, ontologies, map user interfaces and visualization.” For more information on the grant awards and to find out who the 8 winners were, check out the press release at Microsoft’s website

Via ViaVirtualEarth 

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