Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Innovation
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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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Why Curiosity Matters
In my recent Computing Research Association (CRA) column, I reflected on the sense of wonder and empowerment that comes from informed curiosity.
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Mind to Mind: Building Innovation
My friend, Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes and now Microsoft’s chief architect, relates a wonderful story about his undergraduate experience, when he worked as part of the PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Innovation: The Plane of Excellence
My friend Thomas Sterling once posed a rhetorical question whose answer still haunts me, “In which year of birth (1930 or 1970) would one have had the higher probability of walking on the moon?” Putting aside the Cold War dynamics of the race to the moon, which were both real and complex, Sterling’s question is…
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Joe, Java, Espresso: Fueling Innovation
Surprisingly, I completed graduate school without succumbing to caffeine addiction, but I did seem to need coffee to get tenure.
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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.