Industry Funds

Industry Cash Gifts Received
1. Gift from HP Research, for research on "Model Generation and Model Extension for Information and Knowledge Management," June 2009.
2. Competitive Award, Microsoft Research, $60,000 for "Chatter, Intent, Good Karma, and Contextual Advertisements in Social Networks," February 2008.
3. Competitive Award, IBM UIMA Innovation Award, $23,000 for "UIMA-based Infrastructure for Summarizing Casual, Unstructured Text," November 2007.
4. Gift from HP Research, $50,000, for research in unstructured text extraction, starting January 2008.
5. Gift/donation, Athens Heart Center, $32,000, May 2005.
6. Competitive Award, IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant 2005, $27,000, January 2005.
7. Competitive Award, IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant 2004, $28,000, January 2004. (78/285)
8. Gift/donation, 2004 IBM Faculty Award, $30,000, 2004.
9. Gift/donation, IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant 2004, $28,000, January 2004. (78/285)
10. Gift from the Boeing Company as a LSDIS industry sponsor, $55,000 (annual gifts), December 1996, January 1998, January 2001.
11. Gift from Microelectronic and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) as a LSDIS industry sponsor, $20,000, June 1997.
12. Gift from Hewlett-Packard Labs as a LSDIS industry affiliate, $12,500 (annual gifts for 1995,'96,'97,'98).
13. Gift from LG Electronics Research Center of America as a LSDIS industry sponsor, $25,000, February 1998.

Consortia
1. Homeland Security Workshop, Principle Investigator (with co-PIs: E. Lynn Usery, I. Budak Arpinar, Xiaobai Yao), UCGIS, $15,000, August 2003 - July 2004.
2. Video Data Management System, Principal Investigator, awarded by LG Electronics Research Center of America, $50,004, January 1, 1998 - December 31, 1998. University of Georgia Research Foundation Matching in first year $2,500.

Donations Received
1. Semagix Freedom, $255,000, 2005.
2. Persistence, donated by Persistence Software Inc. $61,275, July 1995. Also, May 1997.
3. Illustra Server licenses (5) and several databases, awarded through a competitive grant program, Illustra Information Technology, Inc., $17,373.50, August 22, 1995.
4. ORBeline 2.0 and BlackWidow licenses (6), donated by PostModern Computing (first grant recipient of CORBA2.0 product), $83,700, March 1996.
5. ORBIX and related products, donated by IONA Technologies, $45,295, October 1996. Again in 1998 (value undetermined).
6. Informix Universal Server and other software (first receipt of grant program), Informix, $120,000, since April 1997. Renewed in 1998 and 1999 (value undetermined).
7. I-Kinetics DataBroker and Open JDBC, $19,396, September 1997.
8. Also from PictureTel live 200P and Developer's Tool kit, donated by PictureTel Corp., $6,775, June 1996, Virage's Visual Information Retrieval System, (value not assigned) March 1997, MARGI's MPEG-to-GO, (value not assigned) June 1997, POET (December 1998), Object Design Inc. (December 1998).
9. Microsoft Research, donation of all requested software and training for Computer Science department (to support teaching) and LSDIS lab (for use in research), 1999.