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The Digital Technology Center
is pleased to announce that nine proposals were funded as part of its FY06
Digital Technology Initiative Program — call for proposals. The list
of funded proposals, including the PIs, co-investigators, and the abstracts
is available below.
This year forty-two proposals were received, of which nine involved serious
industrial collaborations. Of the forty-two proposals, nine were funded
totaling $220,000. Of the eight proposals that were funded for more than
$24,000, four of the proposals were for projects involving direct and
substantive industrial collaborations.
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Barocas, Victor H.
Biomedical Engineering
Derby, Jeffrey Jay (Co-PI)
Chemical engineering and Materials Science
Maynard, Jennifer A. (Co-PI)
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Wilmot, Caroline M. (Co-PI)
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & Biophysics
Todd, Paul W. (Industrial Collaborator)
SHOT, Inc.
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Computer-Aided Protein Crystallization Design:
X-ray crystallography is the
tool of choice for structural analysis of biomacromolecules,
especially proteins. more
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Bitterman, Peter B.
Medicine
Fan, Danhua (Co-PI)
Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology
He, Yunsha (Co-PI)
Computer Science
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Relational Database for Experimental Mouse
Management: The mouse is a widely
used mammalian model organism in biomedical research.
more
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Da, Yang
Animal Science
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Computer tools for gene and QTL mapping analysis: Data analysis is a critical step to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting health and production traits in agricultural species. more
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Ellis, Lynda B.M.
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Wackett, Lawrence P. (Co-PI)
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Philip Judson (collaborator)
LHASA, Ltd.
Joanna Jaworska (collaborator)
Proctor & Gamble, Brussels
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Reasoning to Predict Fate of Chemicals in the Environment: The fate of chemicals in the environment is very important to society. more
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Longmire, Ellen K.
Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics
Marusic, Ivan (Co-PI)
Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics
Papanikolopoulos, Nikos (Co-PI)
Computer Science and Engineering
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Computer Vision Methods for Understanding Turbulent Flows: The proposed cross-disciplinary research unites experts in experimental fluid mechanics and computer vision to tackle the problem of understanding the eddy structure of turbulent flows. more
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R. Rajamani
Mechanical Engineering
William Robbins (Co-PI)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Wireless Sensors and Estimation Algorithms for Interface Pressure Measurement in Clinical Plaster Cast Applications: Compartment Syndrome is a very serious complication that occurs in a cast due to swelling and can cause ischemia, necrosis and serious nerve injuries. more
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Riedl, John
Computer Science and Engineering
Konstan, Joseph A. (Co-PI)
Computer Science and Engineering
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Exploring Temporal Collaborative Filtering to Support Behavior Change: Collaborative filtering has proven effective in helping connect people to information, products, and services they find valuable. more
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Shekhar, Shashi
Computer Science and Engineering
Legge, Gordon E. (Co-PI)
Psychology
Terveen, Loren (Co-PI)
Computer Science and Engineering
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Indoor Navigation Aids for Visually Impaired People: Developing Cognitive and Computational Foundations: Full participation in modern society requires mobility. more
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Young, Nevin Dale
Plant Pathology
Shoop, Elizabeth (Co-PI)
Math & Computer Science
Cannon, Steve (Co-PI)
Plant Pathology
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Client-server tools for combining biological ontologies, genome sequence comparisons, and evolutionary data: Hundreds of genomes have been sequenced in the last ten years. more
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