Last May, the X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm announced that they were joining forces to develop a competition to enhance integrated digital health. Earlier today, in his keynote at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs announced the $10 million competition — with the aim of stimulating innovation and creating a new category of consumer device that “empowers the individual to become the ‘CEO of [his or her] own health’.” According to the X PRIZE Foundation:

Last month, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced its FY 2012 Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants Programs, with an emphasis on a number of areas of computing, including cyber-physical systems, intelligent systems, and systems integration. A key domain for NIST is energy and the environment, including the smart grid. According to the funding opportunity, relevant work supported by NIST’s Engineering Laboratory (EL) will include: Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program. The program’s primary objective is to promote U.S.  innovation and industrial competitiveness in areas of critical national priority by anticipating and meeting the measurement science and standards needs for cyber-physical systems, such as smart grid, in ways that […]