Funding for the Pebbles Research Project in General:

  • Partially funded by a grant from DARPA.
    This research was performed in part in connection with Contract number DAAD17-99-C-0061 with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. This supported research on the use of handhelds in the Command Post of the Future. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as presenting the official policies or position, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory or the U.S. Government unless so designated by other authorized documents. Citation of manufacturer's or trade names does not constitute an official endorsement or approval of the use thereof. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation hereon.
  • Partially funded by a grant from NSF.
    This research is funded in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0117658.  This is supporting research on the use of handhelds as Personal Universal Controllers. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation. 
  • Partially funded by grants from MICROSOFT.
    This research is also partially funded by four generous grants from Microsoft (in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001), sponsored by Microsoft Research, and by the Windows CE development group. This supported research on the use of PocketPC and WindowsCE  handhelds in education and in the home. 
  • Partially funded by a grant from the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse.
    This grant, in collaboration with Maya Design focuses on the "Personal Universal Controller".
  • Partially funded by a grant from General Motors, for Summer, 2002. This is supporting research on the use of handhelds as Personal Universal Controllers for automobiles.
  • Thanks for a generous equipment grant from Symbol Technologies of one PPT 2700 (ruggedized Palm-size PC running Windows CE with a laser scanner and radio), two SPT 1750s (ruggedized Palm with laser scanner and radio), a Spectrum24 Wireless LAN AP 4111 Access Point, and a LA 3020 Wireless LAN PC Card.
  • Thanks for a generous equipment grant from Hewlett Packard, under the University Grants Program of 10 Jornada 430se, 120 Jornada 680 and about 100 Jornada 720 for studying handhelds for education.
  • Thanks for a generous equipment grant from Lucent Technologies of about 300 Wavelan wireless network PCMCIA cards for the HP Jornadas for studying handhelds for education.
  • Thanks for a generous equipment grant from Palm Computing, Inc. of 10 Palm IIIx Connected Organizers and 12 Palm Vx Handhelds and 4 m100 handhelds.
  • Thanks for a generous equipment grant from IBM of ten IBM Workpads 8602-30X
  • Thanks to SMART Technologies, Inc. for the donation of a SMART Board 580 and stand.
  • Thanks to TDK Systems Europe, LTD for six BlueTooth modules for Palms and PCs: 4 Blue5 sleds for Palms, and 2 USB Adaptors.
  • Thanks to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory for donating a Mitsubishi WS-65909 65" Integrated HDTV Diamond Series television and Mitsubishi HS-HD2000U High Definition Digital VCR that support the HAVi protocol. Also for funding our purchase of the VividLogic HAVi SDK.
  • Thanks to Vivid Logic for a discount price on their HAVi SDK.

Donations for Study of Hand-Helds as Assistive Technologies for People with Disabilities:

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