IBM India university relations

The IBM Innovation Awards program is an international award competition designed to increase the use of open source and open standards-based tools for academic curricula and research. Since 2003, IBM has provided Innovation Awards to faculty worldwide for the purpose of furthering teaching, research, and community building around key technologies such as Eclipse and Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA).

IBM is currently accepting proposals for the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) Innovation Award and the Real-time Innovation Award. Cash awards are valued between $10,000 and $30,000 USD. Deadline to initiate proposals is August 24, 2007 (final submissions due August 31). Cash awards are valued between $10,000 and $30,000 USD.

To qualify for these awards, the submitter must be a full-time faculty member at an accredited college or university which offers Baccalaureate, Masters or Doctoral programs.

For program details and instructions on how to submit proposals, please visit http://www.ibm.com/university/awards.