Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: NIH
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Quantifying Innovation and Investment
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), federal funding for research, development, and facilities has declined from 1.23 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal year 1976 to an estimated 0.75 percent in the President’s proposed 2015 budget.
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Bridge Building: Medical Research and Computing
As an aside, Lee remarked to me once that he had been pleased with the quality of his undergraduate science education and that it had prepared him well to tackle complex problems. Of course, he also noted that he’d had undergraduate physics with Dick Feynman, chemistry with Linus Pauling and biology with Max Delbrück. That’s…