Computing Researcher Association Applaud President's Innovation Plans

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: 	Re: [IP] Computing Researcher Association Applaud President's 
Innovation Plans
Date:   Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:08:28 -0700
From:   Matt Grommes <matt () mattorama net>
To:     dave () farber net
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Like any good scientist, I'll believe it when I see it. :)

For a great look at the Bush administration's real views on science, I very much recommend the book 
"The Republican War on Science."


Dave Farber wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Computing Researchers Applaud President's Innovation Plans
> Date:     Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:26:31 -0500
> From:     Peter Harsha <harsha () cra org>
> To:     dave () farber net
>
>
>
> Hi Dave,
> For IP, if you'd like. This is CRA's reaction to the State of the Union.
> Thanks!
> -Peter
>
> **Press Release** Contact: Peter Harsha
> e: harsha () cra org <mailto:harsha () cra org>
> c: 202-256-8271
>
> January 31, 2006
>
> COMPUTING RESEARCHERS APPLAUD PRESIDENT'S INNOVATION PLANS
>
> WASHINGTON, DC - The Computing Research Association commends President 
> Bush for announcing in his State of the Union address a new focus on 
> U.S. competitiveness and innovation in a plan that would include healthy 
> increases for U.S. science agencies.
>
> The President's plan, called America's Competitiveness Initiative, would 
> double the federal investment in research sponsored by the National 
> Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
> and the Department of Energy's Office of Science over then next ten 
> years, reversing a trend that has deemphasized fundamental research, 
> which is typically performed in U.S. universities and long-acknowledged 
> as the fuel for American innovation. The plan would also bolster math 
> and science education, make permanent the research and experimentation 
> tax credit, provide worker training opportunities, and reform 
> immigration policies to ensure the U.S. can continue to attract and 
> retain the world's best and brightest.
>
> "The President's proposal is an important step in ensuring the U.S. will 
> have the resources -- the people, the ideas, the infrastructure -- the 
> country needs to continue to lead in an increasingly competitive world," 
> said Professor Daniel A. Reed, Chair of the Computing Research 
> Association and Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute at the 
> University of North Carolina.
>
> In the last decade, innovations spawned by fundamental research, 
> particularly research in information technology, have driven U.S. 
> productivity increases and fired the new economy. "But the increasing 
> trend toward short--term efforts puts this innovation cycle at risk at 
> exactly the time when our global competitors are expanding and 
> accelerating their own efforts," Reed said. "I am very pleased the 
> President is committed to doubling the investment in long--term research 
> to reverse the trend."
>
> Computing researchers have grown increasingly concerned that while 
> information technology remains central to the nation's economy, national 
> security, health and the conduct of the sciences, the federal investment 
> in fundamental IT research has been stagnant since 2001, and in fact, 
> declined 4.5 percent in the President's most recent budget submission.
> "That's why it's crucial that any reinvestment in fundamental research 
> include a revitalization of the federal Networking and Information 
> Technology R&D program," said Edward Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates 
> Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington 
> and former co-Chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory 
> Committee. "While the payoffs of past research have been dramatic, the 
> field remains in relative infancy. Tremendous opportunities remain -- 
> far more can happen in the next ten years than has happened in the last 
> thirty, and it is crucial that America lead the way."
>
> CRA is also supportive of the effort to increase the participation of 
> American students in science and math education, as called for in the 
> President's plan and featured in bipartisan proposals in Congress. As 
> part of that effort, computing researchers urge policymakers to focus 
> particular attention on reaching out to members of underrepresented groups.
>
> "The pace of innovation is constrained when significant portions of the 
> population aren't represented in the research and development process," 
> said John King, Dean of the School of Information at the University of 
> Michigan. "Building a diverse workforce not only encourages a diversity 
> of ideas that breed real innovation, but it may be the only way to meet 
> the Nation's workforce needs in the face of the projected growth in the 
> field."
>
> "The President's innovation agenda creates an important opportunity," 
> Reed said. "We're optimistic that these good ideas are shared by a large 
> and growing number of Members of Congress on a bipartisan basis and look 
> forward to working with policymakers to see them implemented in the 
> coming year.  Our nation's future depends critically on increased 
> investments in advanced education and research in information technology 
> and other fields."
>
> CRA is an organization of 200 of the Nation's leading industrial 
> computing research labs and university computer science departments. For 
> more information, visit the CRA website at: http://www.cra.org 
> <http://www.cra.org/>
>
>
> --
> Peter Harsha
> Director of Government Affairs
> Computing Research Association
> 1100 17th St. NW, Suite 507
> Washington, DC 20036
> p: 202.234.2111 ext 106
> c: 202.256.8271
> CRA's Computing Research Policy Blog: http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog
>
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