Award amounts and requirements
The 2008 Real-time Innovation Awards are valued in the range of US $10,000 to $25,000.
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 proposals in (but not limited to) the following areas:
- Java-based messaging and middleware for real-time systems Real-time extensions to Linux (for example, for scheduling, networking and I/O)
- Analysis of Java for real-time properties, such as worst-case execution time
- Tooling for the creation of compositional real-time Java and Linux applications
- Creation of innovative Java-based real-time applications for the open-source community
- Courseware supporting the use of real-time Java (for example, for teaching control theory)
- Real-time stream processing and analytics
How to submit a proposal
Send an email to: awards@us.ibm.com with the subject line "Real-time Innovation Award 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
- IBM WebSphere Real Time: A Java virtual machine with real-time garbage collection, ahead-of-time compilation, and a complete implementation of the RTSJ standard. It is available at no charge to IBM Academic Initiative members from the Academic Initiative Software Catalog and will also be made available to all award recipients.
- Real-time Linux: Developed in collaboration with the open source community and available as open source, this operating system supports real-time priorities, predictable context switch latencies, high resolution timing services, and more.
- IBM TuningFork Visualization Tool for Real-time Systems: An Eclipse-based real-time visualization system, developed by IBM Research, that provides microsecond-level trace analysis of real-time Java, Linux, and user applications in C++ and Java. Download it from alphaWorks or SourceForge.net.