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IP: NSF CHIEF HAILS CYBERSPACE RESEARCH AS NEW "MANHATTAN PROJECT"
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 14:59:24 -0700
Referring to the recent recommendation of a presidential advisory commission that the National Science Foundation be made lead agency in a $1 billion, 5-year research effort to solve hardware, software, and data transfer issues, newly installed NSF director Rita Rossi Colwell says, "I think the nation needs to make this investment. I see this in a way as the social equivalent of the Manhattan Project... The NSFnet evolved into the Internet and was spun out into industry; there's a tremendous amount of basic research that's been done and is being done" to prepare the way for the high-performance computational capabilities that will be required in the decades ahead. (Washington Post 1 Sep 98)
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