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Bristol Receives Accolades for Innovative Research

University of Bristol News (08/20/08) Rooney, Sadia

The University of Bristol has received two 2008 Hewlett-Packard Labs Innovation Research Awards. The winning proposals, from the university's Department of Computer Science and Department of Physics, were chosen from 450 applications. The awards will enable the recipients to collaborate with HP Labs on a variety of high-impact research areas, including information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure, and sustainability. Award recipient and computer science lecturer Walterio Mayol-Cuevas will lead a project to develop novel computer vision methods that could lead to camera-enabled devices that recognize and identify objects or places from how they look. The research also could develop virtual post-it notes visible only to selected people. Award recipient and professor of physics Robert Richardson will lead a project focusing on liquid crystal colloids with the goal of developing new technologies for updateable physical display surfaces to improve users' experience when interacting with the digital world. "Having this research partnership with HP Labs will bring the necessary focus and drive to make a positive contribution to augmented reality, a field of computer research combining real-world and computer-generated data," Mayol-Cuevas says. "It is a big challenge, as with any other area of research, and we are looking forward to starting the work."

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