MSR European PhD scholarship programme, and the seashore

One of my favourite professors from grad school, Hiroshi Ishii, draws a beautiful analogy that compares the richness of the seashore to the interaction between bits and atoms, technologies and humans, sciences and arts.  "People tend to think of borders as separators," he writes, "but it is important to understand borders as 'interfaces' which actively promote exchange between adjoining worlds."

 

One goal of the Microsoft Research (MSR) European PhD scholarship programme is to support students who similarly seek to explore the intersection of computing and the sciences, including biology, chemistry and physics.

 

Any European national student who has been accepted by a university in Europe to start a PhD, or who will have completed no more than one year of their PhD by October 2006, is eligible to apply.

 

Students: if you think this may describe you, click here to find out more.

 

Faculty: if you think this may describe your students, please read on as well.  Applications will only be accepted through a student’s institution.

 

 

 

[Bonus Links: (just cool, but not especially related to the above) Two of my favourite back-in-the-day projects from Hiroshi Ishii's Tangible Bits group were pinwheels and music bottles.]