Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Global Competitivensss
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Interesting Times Indeed: Science Debate 2008
I write a quarterly column for the Computing Research Association (CRA)’s newsletter, Computing Research News (CRN). The following is a preview of my upcoming column, which will appear in the November 2008 issue.
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The Long Race for Innovation
I’ve always enjoyed the fact that the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) staff members rearrange our seating at each PCAST meeting. It gives me a chance to have sidebar conversations with different people during each meeting. At our most recent meeting, I happened to be sitting next to Norm Augustine, the former head…
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Research, Teaching and Service: Dynamic Balance
The following is a preview of my regular column for Computing Research News (CRN), the newsletter of the Computing Research Association (CRA), which will appear in September 2008. I worry that we are devaluing teaching and service, to the possible detriment of academia in general and computing in particular. I
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NITRD: Come, Let Us Reason Together
On Wednesday, July 31, I testified to the U.S. House Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology in the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill. The full committee hearing, chaired by Rep. Bart Gordon, was on oversight of the Networking, Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program and the 2007 report of the President’s Council of Advisors…
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KAUST IT Summit Reflections
From discussions, it is really clear is that the success or failure of KAUST will depend on Saudi Aramco’s ability to recruit world-class faculty to Saudi Arabia. As I noted in my closing comments, the old Zenith marketing slogan remains apt: “The quality goes in before the name goes on.”
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KAUST: A New University
KAUST was created with a $10B endowment. To put that number in perspective, it is the sixth largest university endowment in the world. KAUST is intended to serve as a catalyst for a knowledge economy in Saudi Arabia.