Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Science Policy
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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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Rikei Banare and Global Competition
On Saturday, May 17, the New York Times ran a front page story (below the fold) on the dearth of Japanese students entering science and engineering fields. Japanese universities call it rikei banare or “flight from science.”
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Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
The CCC Blog (http://www.cccblog.org) is now up and running. It is intended to be a forum for discussing “longer range, audacious research challenges” in the computing field. The plan, initially, is to have about two articles a month, with each article offering opinions on the future. Several of us will be contributing material.
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HPC and Climate Change: Senate Hearing
On Thursday, May 8, I testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology. The full committee hearing was on improving the “Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling for Decision Makers and End-Users.” The other members of the hearing panel were Jim Hack and I represented the computing and computational science issues, and the…
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Parallelism, Multicore and Academic Partnership
Today, Microsoft and Intel jointly announced the creation of two Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC): one at the University of California at Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) and a second at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
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Computing is Beauty; Computing is Truth
Truth and beauty, beauty and truth: as I recall, John Keats also had a few words to say on this topic. The universe in a grain of sand is here, in ways neither Blake nor Keats could have imagined.