IP: Information Technology Laboratories

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES:
> A BUSINESS WEEK SURVEY
>
>
>       Business Week Technology Editor Otis Port has requested the
> collaborative's help with a Delphi survey he is conducting to get a
> fix on the world's top information technology research labs.
>       "Our working thesis is this," he writes: "Had you visited the top
> research labs in the late 1970s, you would have spotted most of the
> technologies now in everyday use. So, doing the same today should
> give you a good handle on where computers and info tech will be 10
> to 20 years hence. And that's the thrust of our special report."
>     The poll, says Otis, will be used to refine the list of labs to be
> visited by BW reporters. It will also be published as part of the
> special report.
>
>       In this first round, Otis asks all ProfNet members affiliated
> with institutions conducting information technology research to
> forward the attached ballot both to a senior researcher and to a
> "bright young turk" in each of the following four areas:
>     1) computer science;
>     2) networking, telecom, and groupware;
>     3) artificial intelligence, data mining and visualization, and
> machine-human interfaces;
>     4) biologically-inspired areas such as artificial life, genetic
> algorithms, complexity, evolutionary programming, etc.
>       (Note: Neural networks can be considered either part of AI or
> under biologically-inspired areas, or both.)
>
>       Otis requests that first-round ballots be returned by May 16 at
> oport () netcom com, otisbw () aol com, or via CompuServe at
> 72345.147 () compuserve com.
>       Upon receiving these ballots, Otis will tabulate the responses,
> prune the lists, add the write-in nominations, and send a new ballot
> to all first-round respondents for for the final second-round vote.
>       "To capture a sense of the diffusion of IT research and the
> shifting sands at the top of the heap, we'd also like researchers to rank
> the leading labs both currently and in the 1970s," he notes. "I'd
> anticipate a fairly narrow convergence for the yesteryear rankings,
> less so for current rankings."
>
>
> BUSINESS WEEK DELPHI POLL ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABS
> First Round Ballot
>
> Please mark the research labs below, using these codes:
>     1 =  Labs that are/were among the world's top five.
>     10 = Labs that are/were among the top 10.
>     X =  If you were 35 and had invitations from every lab below
>          (you've just won the Nobel Prize for info technology and
>          the Turing), at which one would you most like to work?
>
>
> COMPUTER SCIENCE
> ================
>
> 1970s    NOW    X-LAB
>
> _____   _____   _____  AT&T Labs
> _____   _____   _____  Australian National U.
> _____   _____   _____  Bell Labs
> _____   _____   _____  Caltech
> _____   _____   _____  CMU
> _____   _____   _____  Columbia
> _____   _____   _____  Colorado State
> _____   _____   _____  Cornell
> _____   _____   _____  DEC
> _____   _____   _____  Disney
> _____   _____   _____  EPFL (Lausanne)
> _____   _____   _____  ElectroTechnical Lab
> _____   _____   _____  Fujitsu
> _____   _____   _____  Georgia Tech
> _____   _____   _____  Hewlett-Packard
> _____   _____   _____  Imperial College
> _____   _____   _____  Industrial Light & Magic
> _____   _____   _____  IBM
> _____   _____   _____  MIT CS Lab
> _____   _____   _____  MIT Media Lab
> _____   _____   _____  Michigan State
> _____   _____   _____  Microsoft
> _____   _____   _____  Nagoya U.
> _____   _____   _____  National Lab (U.S.)____________________
> _____   _____   _____  National Lab (U.S.)____________________
> _____   _____   _____  NEC Labs
> _____   _____   _____  NEC Princeton Labs
> _____   _____   _____  Northwestern
> _____   _____   _____  Osaka U.
> _____   _____   _____  Penn State
> _____   _____   _____  Princeton
> _____   _____   _____  Purdue
> _____   _____   _____  Rank-Xerox
> _____   _____   _____  RPI
> _____   _____   _____  Sony
> _____   _____   _____  Stanford
> _____   _____   _____  SRI
> _____   _____   _____  Sun Labs
> _____   _____   _____  Tech.U.Darmstadt
> _____   _____   _____  UC-Berkeley
> _____   _____   _____  UCLA
> _____   _____   _____  UC-San Diego
> _____   _____   _____  UC-Santa Barbara
> _____   _____   _____  U.Cambridge
> _____   _____   _____  U.Chicago
> _____   _____   _____  University College London
> _____   _____   _____  U.Colorado
> _____   _____   _____  U.Darmstadt
> _____   _____   _____  U.Edinburgh
> _____   _____   _____  U.Illinois
> _____   _____   _____  U.Manchester Sci & Tech Institute
> _____   _____   _____  U.Maryland
> _____   _____   _____  U.Michigan
> _____   _____   _____  U.North Carolina
> _____   _____   _____  U.Oxford
> _____   _____   _____  USC Information Sciences Institute
> _____   _____   _____  U.Sussex
> _____   _____   _____  U.Texas
> _____   _____   _____  U.Toronto
> _____   _____   _____  U.Washington
> _____   _____   _____  U.Wisconsin
> _____   _____   _____  Xerox PARC
> _____   _____   _____  Other: _______________________________
> _____   _____   _____  Other: _______________________________
>
>
>
> TELECOM, NETWORKING, GROUPWARE
> ==============================
>
> 1970s    NOW    X-LAB
>
> _____   _____   _____  ATR Institute (Japan)
> _____   _____   _____  AT&T Labs
> _____   _____   _____  Bell Labs
> _____   _____   _____  Bellcore
> _____   _____   _____  BBN
> _____   _____   _____  British Telecom
> _____   _____   _____  Columbia U.
> _____   _____   _____  CNRI
> _____   _____   _____  DEC
> _____   _____   _____  Ericsson
> _____   _____   _____  Fujitsu
> _____   _____   _____  Hewlett-Packard
> _____   _____   _____  IBM
> _____   _____   _____  MIT CS Lab
> _____   _____   _____  NEC
> _____   _____   _____  NTT
> _____   _____   _____  Siemens
> _____   _____   _____  Stanford
> _____   _____   _____  SRI
> _____   _____   _____  U.Cambridge
> _____   _____   _____  UCLA
> _____   _____   _____  U.Illinois
> _____   _____   _____  USC ISI
> _____   _____   _____  Washington U. (St.Louis)
> _____   _____   _____  Xerox PARC
> _____   _____   _____  Other: _______________________________
> _____   _____   _____  Other: _______________________________
>
>
>
> AI, ROBOTICS, SPEECH, DATA MINING, INTERFACES
> =============================================
>
> 1970s    NOW    X-LAB
>
> _____   _____   _____  AT&T Labs
> _____   _____   _____  Apple
> _____   _____   _____  Bell Labs
> _____   _____   _____  BBN
> _____   _____   _____  Brown
> _____   _____   _____  Caltech
> _____   _____   _____  CMU
> _____   _____   _____  CMU Robotics Institute
> _____   _____   _____  DKFI (Germany)
> _____   _____   _____  Fujitsu Human Interface Lab
> _____   _____   _____  Georgia Tech
> _____   _____   _____  Imperial College
> _____   _____   _____  Indiana
> _____   _____   _____  IBM
> _____   _____   _____  Jet Propulsion Lab
> _____   _____   _____  Johns Hopkins
> _____   _____   _____  MIT AI Lab
> _____   _____   _____  MIT CS Lab
> _____   _____   _____  MIT Media Lab
> _____   _____   _____  Microsoft Labs
> _____   _____   _____  MERL (Mitsubishi, Cambridge, UK)
> _____   _____   _____  NASA Ames
> _____   _____   _____  NRaD (U.S. Navy, San Diego)
> _____   _____   _____  New York U.
> _____   _____   _____  Northwestern ILS
> _____   _____   _____  Rutgers
> _____   _____   _____  Stanford
> _____   _____   _____  SRI
> _____   _____   _____  U.S. National Lab____________________
> _____   _____   _____  U.S. National Lab____________________
> _____   _____   _____  U.Buffalo (SUNY)
> _____   _____   _____  UC-Berkeley
> _____   _____   _____  UC-San Diego
> _____   _____   _____  UCLA
> _____   _____   _____  U.Colorado
> _____   _____   _____  U.Edinburgh
> _____   _____   _____  U.Illinois
> _____   _____   _____  U.Maryland
> _____   _____   _____  U.Massachusetts
> _____   _____   _____  U.Michigan
> _____   _____   _____  U.Oregon
> _____   _____   _____  U.Pennsylvania
> _____   _____   _____  U.Pittsburgh
> _____   _____   _____  U.Rochester
> _____   _____   _____  USC
> _____   _____   _____  U.Sussex
> _____   _____   _____  U.Texas
> _____   _____   _____  U.Toronto
> _____   _____   _____  U.Washington HITL
> _____   _____   _____  U.York
> _____   _____   _____  VPI&SU
> _____   _____   _____  Xerox PARC
> _____   _____   _____  Yale
> _____   _____   _____  Other: _______________________________
> _____   _____   _____  Other: _______________________________
>
>
>
> ALIFE, GA, EP
> =============
>
> 1970s    NOW    X-LAB
>
> _____   _____   _____  ATR Lab (Kyoto)
> _____   _____   _____  Australian National U.
> _____   _____   _____  Bell Labs
> _____   _____   _____  CSEM (Neuchatel)
> _____   _____   _____  Caltech
> _____   _____   _____  Colorado State
> _____   _____   _____  EPFL (Lausanne)
> _____   _____   _____  ETL (Tsukuba)
> _____   _____   _____  Hokkaido U.
> _____   _____   _____  Imperial College
> _____   _____   _____  Kobe U.
> _____   _____   _____  Los Alamos National Lab
> _____   _____   _____  Michigan State U.
> _____   _____   _____  Napier U.
> _____   _____   _____  Naval Research Lab
> _____   _____   _____  NEC Labs (Japan)
> _____   _____   _____  NEC Princeton Labs
> _____   _____   _____  Rowland Institute
> _____   _____   _____  Santa Fe Institute
> _____   _____   _____  Sony
> _____   _____   _____  Stanford
> _____   _____   _____  Technical U. Berlin
> _____   _____   _____  Tokyo Institute of Technology
> _____   _____   _____  U.S. National Lab____________________
> _____   _____   _____  U.S. National Lab____________________
> _____   _____   _____  U.Alabama
> _____   _____   _____  U.Alberta
> _____   _____   _____  University College London
> _____   _____   _____  U.Dortmund
> _____   _____   _____  U.Edinburgh
> _____   _____   _____  UCLA
> _____   _____   _____  UC-San Diego
> _____   _____   _____  U.Illinois
> _____   _____   _____  U.Maryland
> _____   _____   _____  U.New Mexico
> _____   _____   _____  U.Michigan
> _____   _____   _____  USC
> _____   _____   _____  U.Sussex
> _____   _____   _____  U.Sydney
> _____   _____   _____  U.Tennessee
> _____   _____   _____  Other: _______________________________
> _____   _____   _____  Other: _______________________________
>
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