Microsoft’s Research annual summit with university in Redmond have announced plans for its next research grants to colleges and universities.

Everyone is keen to know about the subjects that the Microsoft chooses as those will highlight the areas they considers most vital and worth exploring.

One such interesting category is a $500,000 commitment for research in “sustainable computing.” The company defines that as “research in innovative approaches toward power-optimized system architectures, and adaptive power management solutions for maximizing the energy efficiency of computing infrastructure.”

As reported on Seattlepi.com’s blog on the Other areas include multicore computing ($500,000), using cell phones for healthcare ($1 million), human-robot interaction ($500,000), and “biomedical computing for genome wide association studies” ($700,000). Another is “Intelligent Web 3.0,” a $500,000 category that the company defines as this.

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