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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America COMPETES – Not!
Like many of you, I am exceedingly distressed by recent news about the Federal research budget and the prospects for an omnibus appropriations bill. Peter Harsha cogently describes the bleak situation in the CRA Computing Research Policy Blog. The major science agencies – NIH, NSF, DOE, NIST and NASA – will see minimal budget increases,…
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PCAST, NITRD and the Future
leading international position is not a birthright – continuing U.S. leadership in networking and information technology will require bold, imaginative thinking and collaboration among government, academia and industry.
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Singapore Biopolis
As Nature and Science have noted, the Biopolis is a part of Singapore’s aggressive plans to establish itself as an international center for biomedical research, with both world-class facilities and international talent.
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PCAST, NITRD and Medicine
The slides from my presentation at the President’s Council of Science and Technology Advisors (PCAST) PCAST meeting last week are now up on the OSTP web site. I discussed the context for this presentation in an earlier post.
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PCAST (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology)
Our presentation will soon be posted on the PCAST web site, but the salient points bear repeating broadly and frequently: the leadership position of the U.S. in IT is at risk, as other nations invest strategically in IT. To use a calculus analogy, the U.S. position may be ahead, but we are losing on the…
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High-Performance Computing R&D
Achieving high performance for complex applications requires a judicious match of computer architecture, system software and software development tools.