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In 1992 I received Junior Faculty Award; later in 1993, 1995, and 1997 I received Faculty Grant Awards from the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD). In 1995 and 1997 the College of Engineering and Applied Science at UCD in recognition of my research awarded me title of the Researcher of the Year among the College Faculty. In November of 1996, I received Full Year 1997-98 Faculty Fellowship Award (one year teaching release - the only full year fellowship on campus) to do research in LG. In particular, this award allowed me to complete the monograph on LG. In December of 1996, I received one of the top research awards at the University of Colorado at Denver, the Chancellor's New Urban University Lectureship Award. This award is twofold: besides the money award in recognition of my scholarship I was honored to give a Chancellor's Lecture on my research to the entire University of Colorado at Denver. This lecture entitled Linguistic Geometry: First Contact was given on April 2, 1997. In March of1998 I was honored second time as Researcher of the Year of the College of Engineering. In April of 1998, I received the top research award at the University of Colorado at Denver, the 1998 RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD of the entire campus. In the spring of 1995, I received Faculty Associateship Award ($14K) from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and in the summer of 1995 I worked on applications of Linguistic Geometry to aerospace problems at Phillips Lab at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Specifically, I consulted the development of a software prototype intended for control manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (guided by the satellite based sensors) in order to detect and destroy adversarial mobile missile launchers. In December of 1995, my research grant proposal Linguistic Geometry: Theory and Applications ($217K for 3 years) was awarded at Sandia National Laboratories. This award provided substantial funding for the following development of LG. In July of 1995, Colorado Advanced Software Institute awarded my joint (with Dr. W. Wolfe) research proposal ($34K for one year) on application of LG to the development of Next Generation Factory Planning and Scheduling Algorithms. In 1995-98, I also received numerous awards and travel grants to give invited keynote talks, teach tutorials and short courses on LG at conferences and universities around the world. In particular, I received awards from France, Venezuela, Germany, Italy, Turkey, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, two awards - from UK, Spain, three awards - from Russia, four awards - from Australia, a number of awards - from USA including NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Rockwell International Corp., US Army, etc. Currently I expect new sources of funding for the Center for LG from the U.S. Army Research Office (and DARPA) for the development of the advanced Combat Simulation System, from Rockwell International Corp. for the application of LG to the development of High Assurance Systems, and from the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (for the collaboration with St. Petersburg University and Moscow State University). The most substantial grant proposal that involved 3 teams from University of Colorado, Rockwell International Corp., and Semantic Designs Corp., in the amount of $3M has been submitted to NSF within the KDI/NCC solicitation in 1998. This project is titled Development of Linguistic Geometry for Computationally Challenging Problems. Another highly ambitious project which is gaining significant international support (especially from Netherlands and Germany) is to revitalize PIONEER project and complete the chess program based on LG approach. |