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Google Research Awards : Two weeks and counting..

The deadline for our next round of Google Research Awards is 11:59pm PDT on April 15, 2012.  The Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time staff members at top universities around the world. Member of academic staff can apply for Research Awards by submitting a proposal […]

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App Engine for Academics

As the geospatial world moves every closer to the mainstream IT, the potential of “Cloud” based technology to share mapping data and provide distributed processing for spatial analysis is increasing relevant to academics and researchers working in higher education. Yesterday Google announced a programme to allow academics use of Google App Engine for their research projects. App Engine is the service […]