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Call for Proposals: Amazon Research Awards, deadline 9/15/17

The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program offers awards of up to $80,000 in cash and $20,000 in AWS promotional credits to faculty members at academic institutions in North America and Europe for research in these areas: Computer vision General AI Knowledge management and data quality Machine learning Machine translation Natural language understanding Personalization Robotics Search ...

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MIDAS to host faculty meeting on NSF BIGDATA solicitation

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) will hold a faculty meeting at noon on Thursday, January 19 (Suite 7625, School of Public Health I, 1415 Washington Heights) for the NSF 17-534 “Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering (BIGDATA)” solicitation. The meeting will include an overview of the NSF solicitation, ...

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Funding available for data set acquisition

The new Data Acquisition for Data Science (DADS) program supports acquisition, preparation, management, and maintenance of specialized research data sets used in current and future data science-enabled research projects across U-M, with special focus on the four challenge initiative areas pursued by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS): transportation science, health science, social science, ...

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Toyota Materials Handling North America seeks proposals for University Research Program in supply chain, logistics and material handling — Aug. 31 submission deadline

Toyota Materials Handling North America is accepting proposals for sponsored research under its University Research Program, which aims to “drive the next generation of technology for the entire supply chain, logistics and material handling industry.” According to the company’s description, “The mission is to encourage professors and researchers to apply their knowledge of engineering and technical ...

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NSF Program Solicitation: Quantitative Approaches to Biomed. Big Data (QuBBD)

The NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative (BD2K, https://datascience.nih.gov/bd2k), together with the Division of Mathematical Sciences at NSF, announces the release of a new program solicitation (NSF 16-573) Joint NSF/NIH Initiative on Quantitative Approaches to Biomedical Big Data (QuBBD)  http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505292 This program is designed to support novel mathematical, statistical, or computational approaches to biomedical big data ...

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Digging Into Data Challenge seeks data science projects in social science and humanities — June 29 deadline

The Digging Into Data Challenge, which aims to address how “big data” changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences, is seeking submissions for its fourth found of funding. Digging into Data is a grant program sponsored by several leading research funders from around the world (see each round below). Teams of researchers ...