{"55349":{"#nid":"55349","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The National Science Foundation Awards SBIR Grant to ZOOZ Mobile","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZOOZ Mobile has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant of $150,000 will support the development of an innovative music intelligence engine for a new line of ZOOZ music creativity products. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022The NSF SBIR grant validates the quality of our research and the high prospect of commercialization of our efforts,\u0022 said Gil Weinberg, director of the Center for Music Technology and CTO of ZOOZ Mobile.\u0026nbsp; \u0022We hope that the first phase of support will lead to great results and to the continuation of the NSF\u0026nbsp; SBIR support, which can grow to more than $1million in funding.\u0022 \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe SBIR grant will be matched by additional funds from Georgia Research Alliance and Georgia Tech\u0027s Venture Lab, which supported ZOOZ Mobile in the past.\u0026nbsp; ZOOZ Mobile is one of two spin-off companies that came from Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Music Technology (GTCMT). ZOOZ Mobile\u0027s first product - ZOOZbeat - is based on an exclusive license from Georgia Tech and has already been downloaded more than 1.4 million times from Apple\u0027s App Store (see \u003Ca title=\u0022ZOOZ Mobile\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/zoozbeat.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/zoozbeat.com\u003C\/a\u003E). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZOOZ Mobile has also partnered with brands such as Sprite and labels such as Universal Music to deliver innovative music creativity and remixing products, including the latest ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 product.\u0026nbsp; The Center for Music Technology (\u003Ca title=\u0022Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/gtcmt.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/gtcmt.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) involves more than 20 faculty members from across campus in research and commercialization of innovative music technology.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"ZOOZ Mobile awarded Small Business Innovation Research Grant"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZOOZ Mobile has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant of $150,000 will support the development of an innovative music intelligence engine for a new line of ZOOZ music creativity products. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ZOOZ Mobile receives $150,000 NSF grant."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2010-04-13 11:19:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:49","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"35322":{"id":"35322","type":"image","title":"Cell Phone Zooz Mobile","body":null,"created":"1449173088","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:04:48","changed":"1475894200","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:36:40","alt":"Cell Phone Zooz Mobile","file":{"fid":"189466","name":"twy65331.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/twy65331_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/twy65331_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":55895,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/twy65331_0.jpg?itok=vUL4xxTP"}}},"media_ids":["35322"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/zoozbeat.com\/)","title":"ZOOZbeat"},{"url":"http:\/\/gtcmt.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1218","name":"Digital Lounge - Entertainment and Music"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8461","name":"digital lounge"},{"id":"1178","name":"Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology"},{"id":"1939","name":"Gil Weinberg"},{"id":"8838","name":"GT School of Music"},{"id":"9156","name":"ZOOZ Mobile"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}