Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Innovation
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Iowa and the Digital Lab for Manufacturing
Yesterday, I had the privilege to be at the White House as President Obama announced the Digital Lab for Manufacturing (the Digital Lab), which includes the University of Iowa and a host of national partners.
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Deferred Maintenance on the Future
Over-worked and sleep-deprived researchers are steering many of our vehicles of discovery on balding tires across potholed roads. Put more bluntly, we are struggling to sustain appropriate investments in basic research.
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Budgets, Innovation and Opportunity
With research proposal success rates plummeting and Hobbesian choices between research infrastructure and investigator support now necessary, we face major challenges. In the apocryphal phrasing of Ernst Rutherford, “We have no money. We must think.”
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Research {preposition} Infrastructure
Computing research and advanced computing infrastructure are interdependent, yet profoundly different in culture and metrics. As the scale and scope of computing grows, each needs to understand the constraints and needs of the other.
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My Big Scientific Data Are Lonely
An old joke defines data mining as (insert possessive gesture here) data are mine. Sadly, this hoary saw is more often truthful than humorous. We must find a new way forward that defines the principles and processes for protecting intellectual property while also creating appropriate cultural and economic rewards for data sharing and sustainability. This…
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Innovation Friction
What enables some groups, companies and regions and even countries to be innovative over long periods, whereas others struggle to adapt to changing technologies, economic circumstances and social expectations? Technology change, despite its many challenges, is relatively easy. Culture change is far more difficult, for people and organizations cling to the familiar as if it…