Via the SIG-IRList :

Microsoft Research External Research and Programs is pleased to announce a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP): Virtual Earth Academic Research Collaboration. For full details, guidelines, and instructions, please visit: http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/rfps/VirtualEarth_RFP_2006.aspx

This Request for Proposals is in support of Virtual Earth’s collaboration with the academic research community.

Submission deadline
The RFP due date is February 16, 2007, 5pm PST (-8 UTC/GMT)

Awards
The total amount available under this request for proposals (RFP) is US $400,000. Microsoft anticipates making approximately 8-14 awards in the range of $20K-$60K.

RFP highlights
To advance academic research and publication in the area of Local Search and, more generally, in digital photography, 3D graphics, computer vision, visualization and location-based tagging, Microsoft intends to make available to RFP awardees ground images.

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