There is a Google research award call open to full-time faculty members from universities worldwide. Awards are typically for one year in the range from $10K-$150K.
"Areas that are of particular interest include (but are not limited to):
- Economics and market algorithms
- Education innovation
- Geo/maps
- Health
- Information retrieval, extraction, and organization
- Machine learning and data mining
- Machine translation
- Mobile
- Multi-media search and audio/video processing
- Natural language processing
- Policy and standards
- Security and privacy
- Social systems
- Speech
- Structured data and database management
- Software and hardware systems infrastructure
- Human-computer interaction"
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