From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Fri Nov 19 12:47:50 2004 Return-Path: X-Original-To: bionews-outgoing Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 76A327D0C2 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:47:50 +0000 (GMT) X-Original-To: bionews-list@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC657D0F2 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:47:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id 6C9BE7D0C2; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:47:47 +0000 (GMT) X-Original-To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAF17D0E3 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:43:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost1.microsoft.com (smtphost1.microsoft.com [131.107.3.116]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2196F7D120 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:43:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from news ([157.54.3.22]) by smtphost1.microsoft.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1247); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:41:47 -0800 To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net From: "Fabien Petitcolas" Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: CfP - Computational tools for advancing sciences X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: msrc-vefour.europe.corp.microsoft.com Message-ID: <419b7138@news.microsoft.com> X-Trace: news.microsoft.com 1100706104 157.58.56.59 (17 Nov 2004 07:41:44 -0800) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Nov 2004 15:41:47.0321 (UTC) FILETIME=[F288AA90:01C4CCBB] Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:47:47 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk ------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Research Cambridge Call for proposals Computational tools for advancing sciences ------------------------------------------------------------ In the last decade almost every branch of science has made more and more use of advanced computing and information technologies. This convergence of computing and the sciences is creating a revolution in the very nature of science and scientific discovery and creating 'new kinds' of science. Expectations range from completely transforming our understanding of biological systems and the aetiology of disease, creating new therapies for the treatment and prevention of today's life threatening and debilitating illnesses, to understanding the origins of our universe and helping understand and halt the loss of the planet's life support system - its biodiversity. However, the pace of this scientific revolution is threatening to overwhelm the pace of current computational capabilities to be able to effectively make greatest use of the data being generated by computational science, and outstrip the ability of scientists to be able to use, analyse, understand and interpret the quantity and complexity of this data. And the scale of this challenge is increasing exponentially. Solving this computational challenge is an enormous task. Microsoft Research is pleased to announce a call for proposals in 'Computational Tools for Advancing Science' to help contribute to this challenge. Microsoft Research invites research grant applications from leading researchers and research groups at Universities and Research Centres in Europe, the Middle East or Africa to participate in this call. Microsoft Research intends to award up to ten (10) research projects with grants of up to 100,000 euros each. Selection process and criteria, eligibility and applications process details are available at: http://research.microsoft.com/ero/csp/CfProposals.aspx .