NVIDIA Alpamayo is a groundbreaking open-source AI platform designed to push autonomous vehicles (AVs) into the era of reasoning-based autonomy — meaning cars that don’t just see the world but can reason about it like a human would. The platform com...
NuTech Security Inspection Systems: Advanced Screening for Modern Threats
Introduction: Who is NuTech (Nuctech)?
NuTech — more accurately Nuctech Company Limited — is a global provider of security inspection systems and solutions, best known for high‑te...
Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a challenging multimodal task at the intersection of computer vision and natural language understanding: a system must watch a video and answer questions about it, requiring spatial, temporal, and reasoning capabilities. ...
Programmatically spin up isolated sandboxes for instant code execution in your AI agents and code playgrounds.
CodeSandbox (codesandbox.io) is a powerful cloud-based online integrated development environment (IDE) that lets developers create, edit, run, sh...
Boston Foundation for Architecture grant applications are still available for those who would like funding for innovative, education programs related to architecture and/or the community-development process. The application is open to virtually anyone, from teachers to community service centers.
Programs targeted towards students and underserved populations are of special interest.
The Foundation looks for programs that increase public awareness and understanding of architecture and may h...
The Russell Sage Foundation is offering grants to young investigators working on behavioral economics projects.
In 2009, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation started a working group to advance behavioral economic research on consumer financial decision-making. The purpose of the Working Group on Behavioral Economics and Consumer Finance is to explore ways in which the regulation of consumer finance can be informed by behavioral research. As an extension of the work don...
pplication Process and Deadlines
Deadlines for both letters of inquiry and project proposals are oriented around the Foundation’s regularly-scheduled Board meetings. All Project Awards with budget requests greater than $35,000 must be approved by the Foundation's Board of Trustees; all budget requests up to $35,000 are treated as Presidential Authority Awards and may be approved without prior Board review.
All potential projects must be preceded by a letter of inquiry. We encourage interested ...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding economic research grants.
The Economics program of the NSF supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, econom...
The International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) Small Grants Program provides funding of up to $10,000 for economics research projects.
IFREE’s mission is to advance the understanding of exchange systems and the testing and application of market-based institutions. The Program funds basic research in economics through experimental methods.
All proposals for the Grant Program undergo a peer-review process. Funding decisions are based on scientific-merit, likelihood o...
Baxter Healthcare Corporation is offering an opportunity for researchers to receive funding for their innovative investigations.
The Grants program offers two types of research applications.
Investigator Initiated Research Award/Grant (which includes:)
Clinical Research: Grants that involve the use of therapeutics or medical devices in human study subjects
Non-Clinical Research: Grants for research that does not involve the use of therapeutics or medical devices in human study sub...
The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) is keenly interested in fostering awareness and appreciation among healthcare professionals and scientists for the research of health-related concerns in outdoor and wilderness activities.
Criteria: The successful applicant will submit a project proposal likely to result in a substantive contribution to the field of wilderness and environmental medicine. The successful applicant will be expected to conduct a well-defined project during the ensuing year and...
The Medical Research Foundation (MRF) is supporting promising biomedical exploration and the development of research careers in clinical investigation in Oregon through a program of competitively awarded research grants. Most MRF grants are awarded quarterly.
New Investigator Grant
Maximum grant award: $40,000
Two to three grants awarded quarterly
Application deadline dates: Feb. 15, May 15, Aug. 15, Nov. 15.
Through this award, the MRF supports promising new investigators in biomedical r...
Looking for a medical grant? W.M. Keck Foundation's grant may be a wise choice.
The Foundation employs a two-phase application process. Grants are awarded twice a year, in June and December.
Research universities, medical colleges and major private independent scientific and medical research institutes are eligible to apply to the Research Program. Organizations must be exempt from federal taxation as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and be designated as a public c...
An increasing number of young physician scientists are experiencing difficulty finding the resources and support to conduct research.
The AMA (American Medical Association) Foundation established the Seed Grant Research Program in 2000 to encourage medical students, physician residents and fellows to enter the research field. The program provides $2,500 grants to support small basic science, applied, or clinical research projects.
In 2014, the AMA Foundation will award Seed Grants of up ...
Keep an eye out for this grant program in 2015!
The Patrick Administration developed the Community Innovation Challenge (CIC) grant program in 2012. The program encourages and incentivizes regionalization based upon the belief that the most crucial and visible interactions between government and citizens occur locally. In three years, the program invested $10.25 million in 74 unique projects that involve 242 municipalities across the Commonwealth. This equates to 69% of the 351 cities and to...
What would you do with a $10,000 innovation grant?
Innovation: the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs…
Changing business models is a pressing priority for most associations. There is a strong emphasis on innovative solutions to address unique and complex challenges of the 21st century. But how do you find the resources and support to begin such a project?
ASAE (Advancing Association and Non-Profit Leadership) wants ...
Looking for funding? The Bush Foundation is offering grants for innovative projects.
We all know that there’s a lot of work that happens in between identifying a community problem and implementing a new “break-through” solution, especially if you want to engage your community, make the most of existing assets and work collaboratively with other organizations along the way. The Community Innovation Grants fund that process – they fund the work that it takes to create a Community Innovation.
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IBEX, otherwise known as the International Boat Builders Exhibition and Conference, is geared towards marine professionals, providing a forum facilitating the exchange of ideas and new products.
In addition to the conference itself, IBEX hosts an innovation awards presentation and competition.
The IBEX Innovation Awards acknowledge the importance of technological advancement. This is one of the marine industry’s most prestigious honors, and winners will be announced during the Industry Award...
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has announced its Research Grants competition, a program which seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets. The program supports research projects that are quantitative in nature, include the ana...
The Edison Awards: "Recognizing and honoring the best in innovation."
The aforementioned Awards are named after the famous inventor, Thomas Edison. These awards are tributes to this inventor's work and legacy.They are geared towards companies and researchers, who, like Edison, have innovative products. Recipients of the awards are able to increase awareness of their respective brands, which may lead to an increase in sales.
There are fifteen award categories open to innovators and entreprene...
The heart.
Some may argue that it is the most important organ in the body.
Oftentimes, especially with increased age, this valuable pumping machine starts to deteriorate in function. Researchers at St. Francis Hospital and the Dematteis Center for Education and Research are trying to use their investigations to gain scientific knowledge and insight into this deterioration.
This knowledge has been and will continue to be translated into improved methods for prevention, diagnosis and tr...
Clothing is the new electrical insulator as deemed by academic researchers. Investigators from Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials manufactured a clothlike material that generates electricity using body heat. Generators that produce electricity using heat are inefficient. However, heat itself is almost everywhere and is generated by almost everything, even the human body. Because it is a very common energy source and doesn't cost much, such as leftover heat produced b...
Technological ideas? Pranav Mistry has some. Mistry is an Indian computer scientist and Inventor. He can be considered to be a forward thinking technological guru. At present, he is the head of Think Tank Team and Vice President of Research at Samsung. He is best known for his work on SixthSense and Samsung Galaxy Gear. He has created some innovative technologies that foreshadow the future of receiving, transmitting, and exchanging information.
Mistry's research interests include Wearable Com...
2015 CES Innovation Awards
The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.
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The International Development Design Summit is an intense, hands-on design experience that brings together people from all over the world and all walks of life to create technologies and enterprises that improve the lives of people living in poverty. Unlike most academic conferences, this particular summit emphasizes the development of prototypes, not papers and proceedings.In moving the technologies on the path from idea to implementation to impact the summit aims to create real ventures, not j...
Project LiveWire™ is the next major milestone in the history of The Motor Company – The first Harley-Davidson® motorcycle with an electric engine. This is Harley-Davidson® way by bringing this innovation to the street to gain feedback from customers. HD is inviting customers to ride the motorcycle and tell them what they think. Even those who don’t ride yet can take a ride on Jumpstart™ Demo, a simulated riding experience that doesn’t require any experience or a motorcycle license. The Project i...
Many teens and adults enjoy listening to their favorite music. The Cool Rock-It 2.0 Portable Vibration Speaker System is a thoughtful solution for those with tangled or broken speakers who wish to "jam out" to their favorite tunes. This device, which was featured on ABC's Shark Tank, turns any hollow object into a speaker.
With this new innovation, possible choices for speakers are endless. The pictures in this article illustrate how the device itself is used in the comfort of your home.
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