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Here are the nine projects selected in the first round of the Deshpande
Center grant program, totalling $1.25 million in funding.
Innovation Grants
Michael Ernst: Automatically Generated
System Specs
The ever-increasing complexity and failure of software has been
in the news, but this new technology promises a new way to automatically
understand, test, and debug highly complex software systems.
Doug Hart: High Speed 3-D Imaging
This technology aims to convert any ordinary CCD camera (from microscopes
to surveillance cameras) into a 3-D imaging system that can be used
for wide ranging applications from endoscopy, identifying terrorists,
quality control, and entertainment applications, and of course home
photography.
Robert Langer: Tissue Engineering
This promising technology for growing new blood vessels addresses
a critical need in engineering artificial tissues in order to stem
the $400 billion per year cost of tissue loss and organ failure
(in the US alone).
Alexander Slocum: The Nanogate
This new MEMS device will be tested for a wide range of applications,
from a highly tunable RC filter for cheaper communications devices
to a valve for microfluidics that can lead to faster drug discovery.
IGNITION GRANTS
Marc Baldo: Exploiting Molecular Conformation
Changes
Exploiting the properties of a newly developed organic molecule,
instead of semiconductors, may lead to faster and more powerful
computers.
Yet-Ming Chiang: Ionic Colloidal Crystals
A novel class of materials with broad applications from optical
networking to drug delivery, and could spawn a whole field of materials
research.
Woodie Flowers: Active Joint Brace for
Assisted Motion
This device could assist patients with neuromuscular disorders,
like stroke and Parkinson's disease, to stay independent longer
and rehabilitate faster.
Sang-Gook Kim: Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing
A new method for manufacturing and handling that addresses a market
need to help carbon nanotubes live up to their promise as a new
semiconductor technology.
Scott Manalis: Label-free Detection
Of Proteins
This new technology for detecting proteins could lead to a faster,
easier to way to diagnose disease and develop pharmaceuticals.
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