Google Faculty Research Awards program

To facilitate interaction between Google and academia.To support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly). Proposals must have a Google technical sponsor, who will act as a liaison. Application deadlines for the Research Awards program are February 1 and August 1 of each year. Areas of particular interest include (but are not limited to):

• Economics and market algorithms
• Education innovation
• Geo/maps
• Health
• Information retrieval, extraction, and organization
• Machine learning and data mining
• Machine translation
• Mobile
• Multi-media search and audio/video processing
• Natural language processing
• Policy and standards
• Security and privacy
• Social systems
• Speech
• Structured data and database management
• Software and hardware systems infrastructure
• Human-computer interaction