Research Funding & Grants
Industry Funds
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Competitive Awards and Industry Cash Gifts Received
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Employee and Job Search Semantic Engine: Phase I, Universal Freelancer, $60,000, 01/2016.
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2015-2016 George Thomas Fellowship, Health Data Consortium, $10,500, 08/2015; awarded to Sujan Perera.
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Cardiology Semantic Analysis System, ezdataintelligence (ezDI) LLC, $100,000, ($25,000 in 2011, renewed: 2012, 2013, and 2014 at the same level.
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Janya, Inc., $25,150. "Enhancing Information Extraction with Linked Open Data." Apr. 2011.
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Department of Community Health, $13,950. "A Study of Social Web Data on Oxycontin Abuse Using Semantic Web Technology." Jan. 2011.
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Microsoft, $75,000 unrestricted gift, Jul. 2010.
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Hewlett Packard, $45,000 for "Model Generation and Model Extension for Information and Knowledge Management." Competitive Research Excellence Award, Jun. 2010.
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Competitive Award, Microsoft Research, $60,000 for "Chatter, Intent, Good Karma, and Contextual Advertisements in Social Networks." Feb. 2008.
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Competitive Award, IBM UIMA Innovation Award, $23,000 for "UIMA-based Infrastructure for Summarizing Casual, Unstructured Text." Jul. 2008
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Gift from HP Research, $50,000, for research in unstructured text extraction, starting Jan. 2008.
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Gift/donation, Athens Heart Center, $32,000, May 2005.
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Competitive Award, IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant 2005, $27,000, Jan. 2005.
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Gift/donation, 2004 IBM Faculty Award, $30,000, 2004.
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Competitive Award, IBM Eclipse Innovation Award 2004, $28,000, Jan. 2004.
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Gift from the Boeing Company as an LSDIS industry sponsor, $55,000 (annual gifts), Dec. 1996, Jan. 1998, Jan. 2001.
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Gift from Microelectronic and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) as an LSDIS industry sponsor, $20,000, Jun. 1997.
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Gift from Hewlett-Packard Labs as an LSDIS industry affiliate, $12,500 (annual gifts for 1995, '96, '97, '98).
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Gift from LG Electronics Research Center of America as an LSDIS industry sponsor, $25,000, Feb. 1998.
Industry Donations Received (totals more than $650,000)
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Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud-free access for the Kno.e.sis Center, Mar. 2011.
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Semagix Freedom, $255,000, 2005.
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Microsoft Research, donation of all requested software and training for Computer Science department (to support teaching) and LSDIS lab (for use in research), 1999.
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Informix Universal Server and other software (first receipt of grant program), Informix, $120,000, since Apr. 1997. Renewed in 1998 and 1999.
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Also from PictureTel live 200P and Developer's Tool kit, donated by PictureTel Corp., $6,775, Jun. 1996, Virage's Visual Information Retrieval System (value not assigned) Mar. 1997, MARGI's MPEG-to-GO (value not assigned) Jun. 1997, POET (Dec. 1998), Object Design Inc. (Dec. 1998).
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I-Kinetics DataBroker and Open JDBC, $19,396, Sept. 1997.
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Persistence, donated by Persistence Software Inc. $61,275, Jul. 1995. Also, May 1997.
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ORBeline 2.0 and BlackWidow licenses (6), donated by PostModern Computing (first grant recipient of CORBA2.0 product), $83,700, Mar. 1996.
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ORBIX and related products, donated by IONA Technologies, $45,295, Oct. 1996. Again in 1998 (value undetermined).
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Illustra Server licenses (5) and several databases, awarded through a competitive grant program, Illustra Information Technology, Inc., $17,373.50, Aug. 22, 1995.
Industry/Consortia/VC Funds
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Homeland Security Workshop, Principle Investigator (with Co-Principal Investigators E. Lynn Usery, I. Budak Arpinar, Xiaobai Yao), UCGIS, $15,000, Aug. 2003–Jul. 2004.
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Led as founder/CEO/SrVP acquisition of ~$5 million in Venture and commercial funding for R&D including $2.4 million Taalee, Series A. VC funds led by Redwood Ventures, Oct. 1999. Over $7 million invested in local economy during university spin-off Taalee/Voquette before its acquisition/merger (1999-2002).
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Video Data Management System, Principal Investigator, awarded by L G Electronics Research Center of America, $50,004, 1998. University of Georgia Research Foundation Matching in first year $2,500, Jan.–Dec. 1998.
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