This year’s money, he says, will fund projects that relate to H-P’s existing businesses, but not necessarily in ways that will generate short-term profits. For example, Carnegie Mellon’s Noah Smith is getting a grant this year to study how “opinions are propagated through social communities” on political blogs, and “analyze how the vast amount of data can be leveraged for commerce, social advertisement and other commercial and statistical methods.”
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