IBM Research has significantly increased its investment in the language design and implementation, tooling, developing applications, as well as working closely with over 35 universities around the world to improve the language and its implementation, developing course materials, and applications.  Through a series of X10 Innovation Grants, IBM Research awarded over $750K to grow the community around the language. The projects in the X10 Innovation Grants program were grouped into the following themes:

• Applications
• Tool Development
• Frameworks and Libraries
• Mapping Higher-Level Languages
• Curriculum Development
• Performance and Concurrency