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[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: 	Re:[Fwd: [IP] Computing Researcher Association Applaud 
President's Innovation Plans]
Date:   Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:28:32 -0500
From:   Lenore Blum <lblum+ () cs cmu edu>
To:     dave () farber net
CC: 	lblum () cs cmu edu, mblum () cs cmu edu, randy Bryant 
<Randy.Bryant () cs cmu edu>, "jeannette M. Wing" <wing () cs cmu edu>
References:     <43E0D135.8030402 () cs cmu edu>



Hi Dave,
While it is good that CRA has interpreted the President's plan as
supporting long-term research, and is reinforcing this perspective
in its laudatory reaction to the speech, it is also important that CRA
and the research community stay vigilant and on message.. There are too many
presidential advisors in place who have vested interests in the
short term deliverable business model. This was made very clear
to me when I visited the White House last spring.
-lenore

At 10:18 AM 2/1/2006, you 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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