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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American Competitiveness: IT and HPC Futures – Follow the Money and the Talent
The price of innovation keeps rising, the talent is following the money, and many of the traditional players – companies and countries – are struggling to keep up.
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On Catastrophes and Rebooting the Planet
The lesson of the stochastic cusp catastrophe: disruptions cannot be immediately inverted; complex dynamic systems involve hysteresis.
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Predicting Potentialities, Reifying Futures
Remember, the best way to predict the future is to create it.
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Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
What motivates us to discover, to explore new frontiers? What unbroken causal chain connects a child’s boundless curiosity to the focused, but equally insatiable questioning of a trained researcher at the peak of their intellectual prowess?
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The Endless Frontier and the National Science Board
I am pleased that I am being appointed to the National Science Board, where I hope to help the NSF continue to support and sustain scholars – young and old – and to advance scientific research and ensure national competitiveness.
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Innovation Imperiled: Golden Eggs No More
We now risk killing the very thing that has given the U.S. an enormous national security and economic advantage