Initiatives in Digital Technology: 2008–09 Funded Proposals

The Digital Technology Center The Digital Technology Center is pleased to announce that five proposals were funded as part of its FY09 Digital Technology Initiative Program — call for proposals. The list of funded proposals, including the PIs, co-investigators, and the abstracts is available below.

This year twenty-two proposals were received. Of the twenty-two proposals, five were funded for a total of $218,335. Theamount of funding for fy09 was reduced from the originally announced anticipated allocation of $300,000 due to budget constraints. All five involved industrial collaborations.

The funded projects are:

Investigators	Title

Abhishek Chandra Computer Science and Engineering Zhi-Li Zhang Computer Science and Engineering Greg Bronevetsky Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Kevin Anderson Red Hat	A Holistic Approach to Fault Inference and Prediction in Distributed Systems more

Stephen Engel Psychology Andrew Beall CEO WorldViz Inc. Guillermo Sapiro Electrical and Computer Engineering Paul Schrater Computer Science and Engineering/Psychology	A System for Presenting Digitally Altered Reality more

Nikolas Geroliminis Civil Engineering Ted Morris Minnesota Traffic Observatory, Department of Civil Engineering Jerry Kotzenmacher Office of Traffic, Safety, and Operations Minnesota Department of Transportation	Investigation of Flash LADAR 3D Imaging Sensor Technology For Non-Intrusive Roadside Traffic Measurements more

Henry Liu Civil Engineering Chen-Fu Liao Civil Engineering Minnesota Traffic Observatory (MTO) John Levin, Metro Transit Janet Hopper, Metro Transit Gary Nyberg, Metro Transit Kevin Sederstrom, Metro Transit	Mining Bus Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and Automatic Passenger Count (APC) Database for Intelligent Transit Applications more

Rajesh Rajamani Mechanical Engineering Joan E. Bechtold Orthopaedic Surgery William D. Lew Minnesota Orthopedic Research Foundation	Battery-Less Wireless Interface Pressure Sensors for Total Knee Replacement Implant Applications more