This November Helioid has applied for an Information and Intelligent Systems grant valued at $3,000,000 over a 3 year period. On another note, we did not receive the STEM grant but, thankfully there are always more out there, like this IIS grant. We applied to the information integration and informatics program. Below is the project summary which we submitted:

Project Summary
The proposed project will build upon established theory in knowledge representation to develop a set of multi-view clustering algorithms; utilize these algorithms to support a set of graphical search refinement tools; systematically apply these tools to the domains in which they would be of the greatest utility. The project will develop knowledge management tools that will enable users to browse large document collections with increased dexterity, efficiency, and efficacy, by applying novel hybrid clustering/topic-modelling algorithms to the collections.

Back in April we applied for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science, Technology, Engineer, and Mathematics (STEM) grant that involved building tools to help the National STEM Education Distributed Learning (NSDL) group accomplish its goals. The acronyms and obtuse titles are a bit much but the aims of the integrated services track (which we applied to) are relatively simple: “Enhance overall capabilities of the NSDL network to meet the needs of its user and developer communities including the need to demonstrate impact of content and resources.”

Below is the Letter of Intent that we submitted along with the grant