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Four University projects were among a group that received the first grants
awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its new $90 million
Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative. The awards are expected to
spur fundamental research and innovative applications of information technology
and help the U.S. stay at the forefront in the continued development of this
important area of the global economy.
The University's award recipients received a combined $1.4 million. The
principal investigators and their respective research projects are:
* James H. Anderson, an associate professor in computer science, received
$350,001 for a 36-month research project on "Rate-based Scheduling Technology
for Latency-Sensitive Graphics."
* Kevin Jeffay, an associate professor in computer science, received $451,903
for a 36-month research project on "Active Queue Management for Scalable
Network Services: Theory and Internet Practice."
* Gregory Newby, an assistant professor in information and library science,
received $448,459 for a 36-month research project on "TeraScale Retrieval."
* Lars Nyland, an associate professor in computer science, received a $450,649
grant for a 24-month research project on "Self-Scheduling N-Body Algorithms."
Selected from more than 1,400 proposals, the newly funded projects will promote
IT-driven science and engineering. Winners were drawn from 81 institutions in
32 states. A total of nine projects received funding in North Carolina.
Among the largest awards is a five-year, $7.2 million grant to Duke University
for research into "bioinformatics," which applies information technology to
solve such riddles as how protein structure determines the function of an
enzyme. Researchers at Carolina, along with Stanford and North Carolina
A&T, will also be involved in the Duke project.
For a complete list of ITR awards and project abstracts, see
http://www.itr.nsf.gov/
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