Award amounts and requirements
The 2008 Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Awards are valued in the range of US $20,000 to $40,000.
To qualify for these internationally competitive awards, the submitter must be a full-time faculty member at an accredited college or university that offers Baccalaureate, Master's or Doctoral programs.
Proposals requested
We are seeking original proposals in the area of real-time robust signal processing, distributed detection, and approximate and adaptive pattern matching on high volume streaming data collected from a large set of diversely distributed streaming sources. Real-world applications will be given preference.
Proposals are sought in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following:
- Sensing and aggregation of data from diverse sources
Robust and error resilient data collection
Distributed compression, processing, correlation, error correction - Resource-constrained data analytics
Resource adaptive filtering, tracking, feature extraction, compression
Complexity scalable mining and classification algorithms
Approximate pattern matching
Distributed analytic and processing algorithms - Joint application-system design
Interactions between analytic algorithms and systems
Adaptation under dynamic resource availability - Development of application relevant utility-cost-complexity metrics
Relevance through distortion based metrics
Relevance through information bottleneck based metrics
How to submit a proposal
Send an email to: awards@us.ibm.com with the subject line "Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation proposal request".
You will receive an e-mail response with a link to a Web site where you will be able to submit your proposal.
Key dates
All deadline times are 11:59 PM, U.S. Eastern Time
- August 13, 2008: Online submission opens.
Email requests for proposal submitted before this date will be rejected. - September 26, 2008: Deadline for sending an email to initiate a proposal.
- October 3, 2008: Deadline for submitting a proposal.
- November 17, 2008: Date award winners will be notified by e-mail and postal mail.
Technical resources
You can find more information at these Web sites:
- IBM Research UIMA project
- Apache UIMA incubator project
- UIMA Java Framework
- Omnifind products, which are available at no charge to IBM Academic Initiative members from the Academic Initiative Software Catalog