IP: VICE PRESIDENT GORE APPLAUDS WORK OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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

 THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Vice President
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                                                               Contact: (202) 456-7035
 6:00 p.m., EST, Tuesday, February 23, 1999

VICE PRESIDENT GORE APPLAUDS WORK OF 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

        Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore today expressed his appreciation for the work of the President’s 
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), and indicated his strong support for increased government investment 
in long-term information technology research.  

        The PITAC is a Presidentially-appointed advisory committee of information technology experts from industry and 
academia that has just released a report entitled Information Technology Research: Investing in our Future.

        “I want to thank the members of the PITAC for the important and insightful recommendations,” said Vice 
President Gore.  “I strongly support their principal conclusion, which is that the government needs to increase its 
investment in long-term IT research.  That’s why the President and I have proposed a $366 million, 28 percent increase 
in IT research in this year’s budget.”

        Earlier this year, Vice President Gore unveiled an initiative known as IT2 (Information Technology for the 
Twenty-First Century), which responds to the PITAC recommendations.  The initiative will support three kinds of 
activities:

  Long-term information technology research that will lead to fundamental advances in computing and communications, in 
the same way that government investment beginning in the 1960's led to today’s Internet.

 Advanced computing for science, engineering and the nation that will lead to breakthroughs such as reducing the time 
required to develop life-saving drugs; designing cleaner, more efficient engines; and more accurately predicting 
tornadoes.

 Research on the economic and social implications of the Information Revolution, and efforts to help train additional 
IT workers at our universities.

        More information about the PITAC and the Administration’s IT initiative is available at http://www.ccic.gov.

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