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        Microsoft awards Windows Embedded grants to 77 colleges and universities

        Staff | Date: Jun 25, 2003 | Comments: 1


        Microsoft announced today that it has awarded grants worth $1.7 million to 77 colleges and universities from more than 25 countries as part of its "Innovation Excellence Awards for Windows Embedded" program. The grants are intended to fund new research projects and curriculum development based on Microsoft's Windows Embedded platforms, Microsoft said.

        Grant winners will be announced at a 2-day Windows Embedded Academic Developers Conference being held this week at Microsoft's Redmond Campus.

        "From robotics to wireless and ubiquitous computing, there is a great deal of activity in the device space," noted Douglas Leland, director of University Relations at Microsoft Research. "We received a tremendous quantity of remarkable proposals from the academic community for research projects and curriculum development based on the Windows Embedded platforms. Winners were selected for their outstanding examples of creativity and innovation."

        To participate in the Innovation Excellence Awards for Windows Embedded, more than 120 colleges and universities worldwide submitted more than 130 research and curriculum proposals that included use of either Windows CE .NET or Windows XP Embedded. Grant recipients were selected based on a variety of criteria, including scientific merit, novelty, innovation and public accessibility to the results of the work, Microsoft said.

        The grants are part of Microsoft's Windows Embedded Academic Program (WEMAP) initiative, a free program that provides academic educators and researchers with access to source code, development tools and support for the development of projects. WEAP is intended to foster worldwide development of courseware and research projects based on Microsoft's Windows Embedded software.

        Microsoft said its Windows Embedded Academic Curriculum License (WEACL) permits access to more than 2 million lines of source code through the Windows CE Shared Source License, provides development tools and support via the Windows CE .NET Shared Platforms Program, and access to curriculum materials for both Windows XP Embedded and Windows CE .NET. WEACL software licenses allow creating projects and modifying code for development, testing, and evaluation purposes, only.

        Last February, Microsoft announced the recipients of its annual Microsoft Research (MSR) University Relations "Innovation Excellence" research grants, which were awarded to 25 schools worldwide.