Google Research Award for Internet policy researchers in Africa.

Application Deadline: October 15 2014

Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world. Faculty members can apply for Research Awards by submitting a proposal to one of the two 2014 funding rounds.

The 2014 deadlines are April 15 and October 15. Recipients are selected through a comprehensive internal review process and notified of their awards within 4 months of the initial submission. Faculty members can apply for up to 150,000 USD in eligible expenses, but actual award amounts are frequently less than the full amount requested. Most awards are funded at the amount needed to support basic expenses for one graduate student for one year

The intent of the Google Research Awards is to support cutting-edge research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields.

Areas of Research:

• Computational neuroscience
• Economics and market algorithms
• Geo/maps
• Human-computer interaction
• Information retrieval, extraction, and organization (including semantic graphs)
• Machine learning and data mining
• Machine perception
• Machine translation
• Mobile
• Natural language processing
• Networking
• Online education at scale
• Physical interactions with devices
• Policy and standards
• Privacy
• Robotics
• Security
• Social networks
• Software engineering and programming languages
• Speech
• Structured data and database management
• Systems (hardware and software)

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Google Research Awards