Tsinghua University Media Contact:
Jianhua
Feng
8610-62789150
fengjh@tsinghua.edu.cn
Tsinghua
University SELECTED AS HP INNOVATION RESEARCH
AWARD RECIPIENT
$30k
HP Labs Innovation Research Award
Beijing, China, August 12, 2008– Tsinghua University
was
selected as one of 33 universities in the world to receive a 2008 HP Labs
Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration
with HP Labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.
Tsinghua University will collaborate
with HP Labs, HP’s central research arm, on a research initiative focused on effective
and efficient search from heterogeneous data sources.
We are glad to accept the
award from HP and expect future possible cooperation with HP.
-Dean of Department of Computer Science and
Technology
“Around
the world, HP partners with the best and the brightest in industry and academia
to drive open innovation and set the agenda for breakthrough technologies that are
designed to change the world,” said
HP
reviewed more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries on a
range of topics within the five principal research themes at HP Labs – intelligent
infrastructure, sustainability, information explosion, dynamic cloud services
and content transformation. A key element of each award will be on-campus
support for one graduate student researcher, who will also be eligible to apply
to the HP Labs internship program in 2009. More details about The HP Labs Innovation
Research
More
information about Tsinghua University is available at http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn. More information about