Program Overview
Enriching Rice Through Information Technology (ERIT)
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Proposal Due: December 18, 2012
Announcements will be made mid to late Spring 2013, with a project start date of May 15, 2013
Please note you are also now required to submit a signed proposal review and approval form.
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The Information Revolution is transforming society—creating new careers, new industries, new academic disciplines, and the need for new research and education programs. Availability of digitized information coupled with affordable access to large and powerful computing systems and high-speed communication infrastructure is changing and will continue to change our society at large. Rice envisions a future with no ‘upper limit’ “Our ambitions shall be unbounded, and so, too, our contributions” and “our reach will span from the nano-scale to the cosmos, from our neighborhood to cultures around the globe, from understanding of past civilizations to predicting the future of the universe, from the aesthetic appreciation of the arts to the understanding of the principles of commerce, from the architecture of our cities to the energy of our oceans.” Much of this vision can only be reached by aggressively providing, leveraging and developing information technology in the broadest possible sense. We should consider the Information Revolution as an opportunity for reaching these goals, not a threat to humanity. The opportunity is indeed for Rice to become a leading institution on a much broader scale in the Information Age.
For Rice to assume leadership in the age of the Information Revolution, it is imperative to take bold, coordinated steps to enhance the university’s position in information technology. We encourage faculty from all schools across campus (engineering, science, humanities, social sciences, architecture, business, and music) to participate in shaping and enriching the fabric of information technology at Rice. The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (K2I) seed funding program Enriching Rice through Information Technology (ERIT) aims to be a catalyst in this process. This program aims to incubate new faculty direct research, research collaborations, and education activities across campus.
Proposed projects should serve the broadest possible range of disciplines at Rice and encourage collaboration and exchange between researchers across campus. Proposals leveraging information technology to incubate new concentrations, programs, and majors will be considered. We encourage proposals that demonstrate new channels for cross-disciplinary activity related to information technology.
K2I believes that the global society is embarking on an information-rich age and that Rice should be a leader in developing a vision for that age. Our ERIT see funding program is aimed to ensure that Rice has a leading role in maximizing of the promise of information technology for the good of humanity.