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06-08-02-USACM-PiecesOfCompetitivenessInitaitiveSlowlyMoveForward.txt 06-08-04-USACM-ScientistsFindCongressAccessToScientificAdviceLacking.txt 06-08-07-LATimes-CongressStrugglesToUnderstandHighTechIssues.txt 06-09-01-ScienceMag-USNeedsToMakeStrongerCommittmentToScienceAndMath.txt 06-09-07-AP-PhiladelphiaHighTechHighSchoolOpens.txt 06-09-08-ChronHigherEd-BillsToTrainMoreScientistsInDoubt.txt 06-09-08-PhilaInq-PhiladelphiaHighTechHighSchoolOpens.txt 06-09-27-CompResAssoc-ALookAtInnovationAndCompetitvenessLegislation.txt 06-10-06-USACM-USCompetitivenessLegislationStallsInCongress.txt 06-10-19-Nature-PlanningUSSciencePolicyFor2009.txt 06-11-13-USACM-OutlookFortechPolicyInTheNextCongress.txt 06-11-21-CRA-NSFAsksCRAToFormComputingCommunityConsortiumToProvideResearchAdvice.txt 06-12-21-USACM-RadicalEducationReformNeededForChallengesOfGobalization.txt 06-12-21-USACM-USDOCNamesInnovationMeasuringCommittee.txt 06-12-22-InfoWorld-CongressionalDemocratsExpectedToFocusOnBackburnerTechIssues.txt 07-01-18-BusWeek-LeadersCommentOnKeepingResearcgAndLeadershipInUS.txt 07-01-23-GaTech-GeorgiaTechGetsNSFGrantToExpandPipelineOfStudentsAndFacultyInComputing.txt 07-02-07-USACM-CongressionalScienceCommitteesNewLook-TechPolicyToBePriority.txt 07-03-05-InfoWorld-SenEnsignBillWouldPutMoreMoneyIntoMathAndScienceEducation.txt 07-03-06-USACM-USDOCAdvisoryCommitteeReviewsInnovationMetrics.txt 07-03-07-CompWorld-MSCEOTestifiesAboutDecliningScienceAndEngineeringAndResearchFunding.txt 07-04-06-USACM-CongressTakesUpCompetitivenessLegislation.txt 07-05-08-USACM-CompetitivenessLegislationAdvancesInCongress.txt 07-06-01-Science-ChangesInTheEclogyOfInnovation.txt 07-06-06-GovtCompNews-Rashid-AdvancedDevelopmentIsNotResearch.txt 07-07-10-NYT-WilliamWulfDeterminedToReinspireACultureOfInnovation.txt 07-07-13-TechDaily-ScienceAdvocatesEyeIncreasedFederalResources.txt 07-08-02-CongGordon-USHousePassedBillToInvestInScience.txt 07-08-03-USACM-USCongressPassedLandmarkInnovationLegislation.txt 07-08-09-DigitalJ-BushSignsAmericaCompetesActProviding30BForScienceAndTechnology.txt 07-08-10-NSF-NationalScienceBoardApprovesEducationActionPlanForUS.txt ==========> 02-05-00-CACM-BalancingAccessToScientificDataAndPriviledgedAccess.txt========== Controlled publication of digital scientific data John J. Helly, T. Todd Elvins, Don Sutton, David Martinez, Scott E. Miller, Steward Pickett, Aaron M. Ellison May 2002 Communications of the ACM, Volume 45 Issue 5 How to balance free and open access to scientific data with privileged access to new results by authors while protecting them from being scooped by competing interpretations of their own data. ==========> 02-06-14-WashPost-MITPreservesOpeness.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48389-2002Jun13.html MIT Seeks to Preserve Openness Amid Security Measures By Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 14, 2002; Page A06 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become the first major academic research institution to outline a policy designed to protect intellectual openness on campus amid growing pressure to ==========> 02-08-07-Wired-CongressReassessesOTA.txt========== http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54373,00.html Congress Reassesses Tech Office By Dan Mitchell 2:00 a.m. Aug. 7, 2002 PDT WASHINGTON -- When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Republicans cut off funding for the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995, the move seemed capricious to scientists who felt the office did nothing less than help legislators make informed decisions. ==========> 02-10-18-Yahoo-NAS-NAEObjectToInfoLockdown.txt========== http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=6&cid=585&u=/nm/20021 019/sc_nm/science_secrecy_dc Yahoo! News Sun, Oct 20, 2002 Science Body Objects to Information Lock-Down Fri Oct 18,10:56 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's top independent advisers on issues relating to science, medicine and engineering objected on Friday to moves by the Bush administration to close access to scientific information, ==========> 02-11-15-Unknown-NSFDoublingBillHeadedToPres.txt========== NSF DOUBLING BILL HEADED TO PRESIDENT Legislation Also Includes Tech Talent, Math and Science Education Provisions WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House late last night gave its final approval to a Science Committee bill that would put the National Science Foundation (NSF) on a track to double its budget in five years. H.R. 4664, the "National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002," also includes major math and science education initiatives. The bill, which was approved earlier in the evening by the Senate, will now head to the President for his signature. ==========> 02-11-21-WashPost-DOEShutsDownFreeWebInfoSearchSite.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17568-2002Nov20.html Free Web Research Link Closed Under Pressure From Pay Sites By Jonathan Krim Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 21, 2002; Page E01 The Energy Department has shut down a popular Internet site that catalogued government and academic science research, in response to corporate complaints that it ==========> 03-03-03-SJMerc-GovtPublicationRestrcitionsStallScientificResearch.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5304602.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 03, 2003 Demand for government review stalls research project By Glennda Chui Mercury News Neuroscientist Bruno Olshausen has been waiting nearly a year to launch a study of how the brain recognizes objects against a cluttered background -- one with potential applications for baggage screening at ==========> 03-03-03-SJMerc-SecurityRestrictingSciencePublicationAndTravel.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5304603.htm Posted on Mon, Mar. 03, 2003 Security concerns may be shackling science By Glennda Chui Mercury News Russian scientists are invited to the United States for meetings aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, only to find they can't get past the border. Foreign researchers are yanked from some federal labs. ==========> 03-05-00-ACM-USACMSaysDMCAHasChillingEffectOnResearch.txt========== http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/usacm_05-03.html USACM Cites DMCA’S "Chilling Effect" on Computer Security Research By Jeff Grove Director, ACM Office of Public Policy Washington, D.C. At a hearing before a panel of the U.S. Copyright Office on May 14, USACM Co-Chair Barbara Simons criticized sections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for having "substantial negative ==========> 03-07-08-WashPost-GradStudentMapsCriticalInfrastructure.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23689-2003Jul7.html Dissertation Could Be Security Threat Student's Maps Illustrate Concerns About Public Information By Laura Blumenfeld Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 8, 2003; Page A01 Sean Gorman's professor called his dissertation "tedious and unimportant." Gorman didn't talk about it when he went on dates because "it was so boring ==========> 03-12-02-SJMerc-NatlScienceBoardRecommendsMoreScienceFunding.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7395352.htm Posted on Tue, Dec. 02, 2003 Panel: U.S. science leadership at risk FOREIGN GROWTH, SEPT. 11 SECURITY CITED IN BRAIN DRAIN By Glennda Chui Mercury News New census figures show the United States is relying more than ever on the skills of foreign-born scientists and engineers. Yet the number of foreigners ==========> 04-01-23-ACMCampus-USACMMarksTenYearsOfPolicyWork.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/storypage.cfm?story=7 USACM Marks 10 Years as Shaper of Computing Policies "Unfortunately, [the] impact [of these proposals] is likely to be harmful to continued innovations in computing if enacted." -- Jeff Grove, Director, ACM Washington Office of Public Policy In their role as overseers of the nation's technology policies and priorities, ==========> 04-03-31-USACM-WashUpdate-WhiteHouseDefendsSciencePolicy.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol 8.3, March 31, 2004 ******************************* [1] USACM and CRA Urge Congress to Support NIST Labs [2] European Union Enacts New Copyright Enforcement Directive [3] Lawsuits Over Ballot Printers Advance [4] Two More States Opt-out of MATRIX Project [5] White House Defends Science Policy [6] Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference to be held April 20 to 23 ==========> 04-05-03-NYT-USLosingDominanceInTheSciences.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/03/science/03RESE.html May 3, 2004 U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences By WILLIAM J. BROAD The New York Times The United States has started to lose its worldwide dominance in critical areas of science and innovation, according to federal and private experts who point to strong evidence like prizes awarded to Americans and the number of papers in ==========> 04-05-28-USACM-WashUpdate-HighEndComputingRevitalizationTaskForce.txt========== ACM WASHINGTON UPDATE Vol. 8.5 (May 28, 2004) =========================================== CONTENTS [1] Pentagon Advisory Committee Issues Report on TIA [2] Investigation Finds Widespread Government Data Mining [3] Developments at State Level to Impact Use of Evoting Systems [4] British Computer Society Raises Concerns Regarding UK Identity Card Proposal ==========> 04-07-07-IEEESpecrum-ScienceGroupsConcernedAboutUSBudgetAusterity.txt========== http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/may04/0504rnd.html Delvers into U.S. R&D Budget Numbers Are Disappointed By Willie D. Jones Science groups say U.S. budget łausterity˛ will mean penny-pinching for researchers 7 May 2004—Science and technology analysts are examining the U.S. federal budget. It must be spring. Each year at this time, after the White House ==========> 04-09-21-CNETNews-FoleyInterview-NotEnoughCSGradStudents.txt========== http://news.com.com/Fixing+a+busted+IT+research+system/2008-1008_3-5374992.html Fixing a busted IT research system By Ed Frauenheim Staff Writer, CNET News.com Story last modified September 21, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT James Foley is worried. As chairman of the Computing Research Association--a group made up of academic ==========> 05-01-04-InfoWeek-RandDFundingAndITPolicyImportantInBushSecondTerm.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=56900534 R&D Funding And IT Policy To Play Major Role In Bush's Second Term Broadband and wireless communications, cybersecurity, and E-government systems are among the technologies targeted for development. By Larry Greenemeier, InformationWeek Jan. 4, 2005 The Bush administration during its second term will look to counter challenges to the United States' technological leadership by funding research and ==========> 05-04-29-ChronHigherEd-PITACRecommendsRestructuringOfUniversities.txt========== # "Presidential Panel Recommends Steps to Promote Computational Science" Chronicle of Higher Education (04/29/05) Vol. 51, No. 34, P. A33; Kiernan, Vincent The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee recommended in an as-yet-unreleased report a restructuring of universities and federal agencies to promote multidisciplinary computational science, which plays an "integral role" in solving a multitude of problems ranging from traditional science and engineering to public health to homeland security. As chairman of the subcommittee of the panel that wrote the draft, University of North Carolina at ==========> 05-05-08-Reuters-IntelCEOSlamsUSTechAndTaxPolicies.txt========== http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=8418656 Barrett slams U.S. tech and tax policies Sun May 8, 2005 02:15 PM ET By Daniel Sorid Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - Attacking U.S. government policies on taxes, immigration and Internet access, Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Craig Barrett warned that the United States could be left behind when ==========> 05-05-31-USACM-CongressmenAnnounceInnovationSummit.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.5 31 May 2005 ============================================================= [6] CONGRESSMEN ANNOUNCE "INNOVATION SUMMIT" A group of House members announced plans to hold a national "Innovation Summit" later this year, most likely in the Fall. The event was led by Rep. ==========> 05-06-22-WashPost-ACLUSaysIncreasedClassificationOfResearchHurtsScience.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101485. html 9/11 Response Hurting Science, ACLU Says By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 22, 2005; A19 The Bush administration's response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has dangerously undermined U.S. scientific enterprise and national security by ==========> 05-06-30-USACM-PITACIssuesComputationalScienceReportThenExpires.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.6 30 June 2005 ============================================================= [6] PITAC ISSUES COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE REPORT, THEN EXPIRES The President's Information Technology Advisory Council (PITAC) -- which includes both USACM Chair Eugene Spafford and ACM President David Patterson -- ==========> 05-06-30-USACM-ProposedExportRulesCouldStifleInnovation.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.6 30 June 2005 ============================================================= [3] PROPOSED EXPORT RULES COULD STIFLE INNOVATION USACM filed comments with the Department of Commerce expressing deep concern about its proposal to change rules that apply to foreign nationals working in ==========> 05-07-08-Reuters-StudySaysUSNotGraduatingEnoughScientistsAndEngineers.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=241036+08-Jul-2005+ RTRS U.S. losing lead in science and engineering-study Fri Jul 8, 2005 3:49 PM ET Reuters WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - More than half a century of U.S. dominance in science and engineering may be slipping as America's share of graduates in these fields falls relative to Europe and developing nations such as China and ==========> 05-08-23-BBC-BritishConcernOverUSScienceAndDevelopment.txt========== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4172504.stm BBC NEWS A POINT OF VIEW By Harold Evans 2005/08/23 08:46:34 GMT In his weekly opinion column, Harold Evans considers rising concern in the US over the Bush administration's hostility to science. ==========> 05-10-04-FedCompWeek-PITACReturnsAsPartOfPCAST.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/article91012-10-04-05-Web PITAC returns as part of PCAST BY Aliya Sternstein Published on Oct. 4, 2005 Federal Computer Week "President pulls the plug on PITAC" [Federal Computer Week, June 27, 2005] "Facing an innovation deficit" [Federal Computer Week, Aug. 1, 2005] ==========> 05-10-23-NatlAcadPress-RoleOfScienceAndTechnologyInUSEconomicFuture.txt========== http://www.nap.edu/books/0309100399/html Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (2005) Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) [Accessed Oct. 23, 2005] Table of Contents Cover Image ==========> 05-10-31-USACM-CSResearchGroupsCriticizeDODExportProposal.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.10 31 October 2005 ============================================================= [3] USACM AND OTHERS CRITICIZE DOD EXPORT PROPOSAL USACM, the Computing Research Association (CRA), and more than 100 other respondents recently filed comments with the Department of Defense criticizing ==========> 05-11-13-NYT-AreUSInnovatorsLosingTheirCompetitiveEdge.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/business/yourmoney/13invent.html November 13, 2005 Are U.S. Innovators Losing Their Competitive Edge? By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN NY Times, Baltimore WHEN James E. West was 8 years old, he propped himself on his bed's brass footboard one afternoon and stretched to plug the cord of a radio he had repaired into a ceiling outlet. It was one of his first experiments. Mr. West's ==========> 05-12-31-USACM-CongressCreatesNewMathAndScienceEducationProgram.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.12 31 December 2005 ============================================================= [3] CONGRESS CREATES NEW $4.5 BILLION MATH AND SCIENCE EDUC. PROGRAM Congress has all but wrapped up its budget work this year, and one interesting item is an entirely new $4.5 billion program of grants for low-income students ==========> 06-01-10-FedCompWeek-PCASTMeetsWithoutNewMambers.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/article91936-01-10-06-Web PCAST meets without new members PITAC gets new life as part of PCAST [Federal Computer Week, Oct. 10, 2005] "House Democrats stake out high-tech ground" [Federal Computer Week, Nov. 21, 2005] BY Aliya Sternstein Published on Jan. 10, 2006 More than three months after President Bush revived the President's Information ==========> 06-01-14-NatlJ-LeadersAgreeMathAndScienceEducationNeedsImproving.txt========== # "The Science Scare" National Journal (01/14/06) Vol. 38, No. 2, P. 36; Friel, Brian Many of America's political, institutional, and industry leaders support the argument that U.S. global economic dominance is slipping and will continue to slip unless the country improves its math and science education, churns out more engineering graduates, and substantially raises its federal research budget. According to leaders gathered at the National Summit on Competitiveness in December, federal R&D dollars have fallen from almost 1 percent of GDP in 1970 to less than 0.5 percent today, while China raised its R&D investment from ==========> 06-01-31-USACM-PresBushCallsForInvestmentInScienceAndTech.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.1 31 January 2006 ============================================================= [2] PRESIDENT CALLS FOR DOUBLING OF NSF AND NEW SCIENCE AND MATH EDUCATION PROGRAMS Anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention to the swirling national ==========> 06-02-01-PRNews-ACMPres-IncreasedInvestmentInEducationAndRandDNeeded.txt========== http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-200 6/0004272141&EDATE= ACM President Says White House Commitment to Increased Education, R&D Investment Reflects Tech Community Priorities Patterson Cites Focus on Technology as Key to Nation's Continuing Innovation PRNewswire [Accessed Feb. 1, 2006] WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- David Patterson, president of ACM, the ==========> 06-02-02-SJMerc-TechLeadersLaudBushCompetitionPlan.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13775205.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 02, 2006 Tech leaders laud Bush's competition plan PUSH FOR INNOVATION WOULD AID VALLEY FIRMS, SCHOOLS By Jim Puzzanghera Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The White House offered additional details Wednesday about President Bush's $136 billion initiative to boost America's global ==========> 06-02-08-USAToday-IsUSLoosingOurEdgeInScientificInnovation.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-02-08-usa-science_x.htm?POE=TECISVA Posted 2/8/2006 11:18 PM Updated 2/8/2006 11:48 PM U.S. could fall behind in global 'brain race' By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY A chorus of scientists, politicians and business leaders has long sounded this lament: The USA is about to be deposed as the world's leader in science and technology. ==========> 06-02-09-SJMerc-LeadersUrgeUSToRemainTechLeader.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13830203.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 09, 2006 U.S. urged to remain tech leader By Jim Puzzanghera Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - A group of 142 prominent business, academic and political leaders -- including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the president of Stanford University, and the heads of Intel, Cisco and Google -- are urging the United States to ==========> 06-02-10-SJMerc-ActionUrgedToKeepUSTechnologyEdge.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13839873.htm Posted on Fri, Feb. 10, 2006 Action urged to keep U.S. tech edge HOUSE PANEL HEARS REMARKS ON COMPETITIVENESS FROM AMD CHIEF, OTHERS By Jim Puzzanghera Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - In the first of several anticipated congressional hearings on U.S. global competitiveness, lawmakers and witnesses -- including the head of ==========> 06-02-13-Time-IsUSLoosingOurEdgeInScientificInnovation.txt========== http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1156575,00.html Are We Losing Our Edge? Time (02/13/06) Vol. 167, No. 7, P. 22; Lemonick, Michael D.; Beech, Hannah; Bower, Amanda The United States is in danger of losing its crown for scientific innovation as its faces competition from overseas and reduced federal budgets for research and development. Cutbacks in private-sector R&D investment by corporations under the gun to generate fast profits, and drop-offs in technical graduates ==========> 06-02-16-SJMerc-CommerceSecy-MathAndScienceNeedNewImage.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13887683.htm Posted on Thu, Feb. 16, 2006 Turning geeks into pop stars MATH, SCIENCE NEED NEW IMAGE, OFFICIAL SAYS By Therese Poletti Mercury News The Bush Administration wants to make math and science cool. ==========> 06-02-22-WashPost-TheUSIsStillGraduatingMoreScientistsAndEngineers.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/21/AR2006022101166. html A Phony Science Gap? By Robert J. Samuelson Wednesday, February 22, 2006; A15 Washington Post It's true that in a "knowledge economy" -- one where new information and ideas increasingly form the basis of useful products and government programs -- ==========> 06-02-27-CRA-BushNamesCRAChairReedToPCAST.txt========== http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/archives/000473.html February 27, 2006 CRA Chair Named to PCAST Today President Bush announced he is planning to appoint CRA Board Chair Dan Reed, to the newly-expanded membership of the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. Reed, who is Vice-Chancellor of IT and CIO for the University of North Carolina, and Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute, joins 13 other members named as the committee prepares to take on ==========> 06-03-09-SJMerc-AttractingForeignScientistsImportantToUS.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14057590.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 09, 2006 Overseas scientists important to U.S. spirit of innovation By Michael Levi and Adam Segal Mercury News In his State of the Union speech last month, President Bush laid out an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda for improving American competitiveness. His focus on science and technology, and on the people who drive those fields in ==========> 06-04-01-ElecBus-TechLeadersOptimisticAboutUSCompetitivenessInitiative.txt========== http://www.reed-electronics.com/eb-mag/article/CA6319557?pubdate=4%2F1%2F2006 More cash for the labs? Tech leaders are optimistic about the American Competitiveness Initiative by Cameron Crotty -- , 4/1/2006 Electronics Business If the rest of the year plays out as well as it started, 2006 might become known as the year the electronics industry finally got traction in Washington, D.C. At his State of the Union address in January, President Bush announced his ==========> 06-04-06-EETimes-CongBoehlertUrgesFullUSScienceFunding.txt========== http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=184429490 Rep. Boehlert urges full U.S. science funding Spencer Chin EE Times (04/06/2006 6:18 PM EDT) WASHINGTON — In testimony before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, and Commerce, House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) called for the U.S. government to fully fund efforts to make ==========> 06-04-07-SJMerc-USTechLeadershipMustBeStrengthened.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14289668.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 The fact remains, U.S. tech leadership must be reinforced By Douglas B. Fuller San Jose Mercury News A recent report from Duke University that critiques the supposed gap between the number of American science and engineering (S&E) graduates and those of merging economies -- especially China's -- has led to false reassurance that ==========> 06-04-13-Yahoo-ACMPresidentCallsForPoliciesThatAttractStudentsToScience.txt========== http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060413/sfth036.html?.v=54 Press Release Source: Association for Computing Machinery ACM President Sees Need for Policies That Attract Students to Technology Thursday April 13, 7:00 am ET Patterson Cites Continuing Global Competition at Programming Contest NEW YORK, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- David Patterson, president of ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery), the largest membership organization of computer educators, researchers, and professionals, said the results of the ==========> 06-05-01-BusWeek-AWakeupCallForAmericaInScience.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982053.htm Business Week Online MAY 1, 2006 NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY A Red Flag In The Brain Game America's dismal showing in a contest of college programmers highlights how China, India, and Eastern Europe are closing the tech talent gap ==========> 06-05-05-USACM-ComputingCommunityExpressesConcernOverUSFederalBudget.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.3 5 May 2006 ============================================================= [2] COMPUTING COMMUNITY EXPRESS CONCERN OVER BUDGET With the House of Representatives poised to pass its version of the budget for next fiscal year, USACM joined the computing research community and ==========> 06-06-06-USACM-InnovationBIllsOnTheMoveInUSSenate.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.5, June 2006 INNOVATION BILLS ON THE MOVE IN THE SENATE, HOUSE NOT FAR BEHIND When President Bush announced his American Competitiveness Initiative (which boosts research funding for the physical sciences and creates new math and science education programs) during the State of the Union, several members of Congress had already expressed interest in moving legislation to bolster national innovation and competitiveness. Part of the conflict in Congress is that no one committee oversees "innovation" or "competitiveness" and several ==========> 06-06-14-USCongress-MakingAmericaMoreCompetitiveByInvestingInScience.txt========== http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&Pr FY07 SCIENCE, STATE, JUSTICE AND COMMERCE APPROPRIATIONS BILL June 14th, 2006 - - Discretionary Funding Levels: * FY07 Funding: $59.84 billion * FY07 President's Request: $59.70 billion * FY06 Funding: $57.21 billion ==========> 06-06-29-FedCompWeek-BushAdminRandDMemoStressesCompetitivenesAndCybersecurity.txt========== http://www.fcw.com/article95102-06-29-06-Web White House memo on R&D budget priorities stresses competitiveness BY Aliya Sternstein, Federal Computer Week, Published on June 29, 2006 A Bush administration memo on research and development budget priorities for fiscal 2008 stresses competitiveness above other areas, including energy and cybersecurity. The document refers to the new innovation agenda laid out in President Bush's ==========> 06-07-06-USACM-ComputingLeadersPraiseUSHouseForIncreasingResearchFunding.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.6 July 6, 2006 ============================================================= Computing Community Leaders Praise House Appropriators for Increasing Research Funding to Aid Competitiveness USACM and the Computing Research Association released a joint statement ==========> 06-07-06-USACM-CRASnowbirdConferenceSessionOnTheImageOfComputing.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.6 July 6, 2006 ============================================================= Snowbird Conference: The Image of Computing At the Computing Research Association's biennial Snowbird conference on the state of research in the field, one of the sessions was about the image of ==========> 06-07-18-USHouse-NASDecadalPlanForAeronautics.txt========== http://www.house.gov/science/committeeinfo/schedule.htm US House Committee on Science Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics – Hearing The National Academy of Sciences’ Decadal Plan for Aeronautics: A Blueprint for NASA? Witnesses: - Dr. Paul Kaminski , Chair, NRC Steering Committee, Decadal Survey of Civil ==========> 06-07-19-CompResAssoc-SenateHearingOnHighPerformanceComputing.txt========== http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/archives/000509.html High Performance Computing Hearing Computing Research Association, July 19, 2006 You may recall that Senator John Ensign (R-NV) promised a hearing on high performance computing back in May while passing innovation legislation out of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. This morning the Subcommittee on Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness held a hearing on high performance computing that Sen. Ensign, the subcommittee chair, and ==========> 06-07-25-USACM-WitnessesTellScienceCommitteeCongressNeedsBetterScienceAdvice.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=402#more-402 USACM, July 25, 2006 Scientists Tell Congress It Needs Independent Scientific and Technical Advice Today the House Science Committee held a hearing exploring Congress’ need for scientific and technical advice. (Witness lists and hearing webcast can be found here.) Eleven years ago, Congress closed the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). This office was created in 1972 to aid Congress “in the identification and consideration of existing and probable impacts of ==========> 06-07-25-USHouse-Hearing-ScientificAndTechnicalAdviceForCongress.txt========== http://www.house.gov/science/hearings/full06/July%2025/index.htm July 25, 2006 - Full Committee - Hearing - Scientific and Technical Advice for Congress Hearing Charter Opening Statement, Chairman Boehlert Witness Testimony Representative Rush Holt Dr. Peter Blair ==========> 06-07-25-USHouse-WitnessesTellScienceCommitteeCongressNeedsBetterScienceAdvice.txt========== http://www.house.gov/science/press/109/109-300.htm Committee on Science, SHERWOOD BOEHLERT, CHAIRMAN, Bart Gordon, Tennessee, Ranking Democrat CONGRESS NEEDS BETTER SCIENTIFIC ADVICE, WITNESSES SAY Creation of a New S&T Congressional Support Body Suggested WASHINGTON, July 25, 2006 - The House Committee on Science today heard from a panel of expert witnesses, all of whom agreed that there is a gap in the type of science and technology (S&T) advice that Congress currently receives. ==========> 06-07-30-Reuters-UKPrimeMinisterSeeksSilconValleysSuccess.txt========== http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-07-31T0 25629Z_01_L31790091_RTRIDST_0_TECH-BLAIR-USA.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna UK's Blair seeks secret of Silicon Valley's success Reuters, Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:56pm ET170 By Adrian Croft SAN JOSE, Calif., July 30 (Reuters) - A risk-taking culture and close ties with universities are big reasons for the success of the U.S. computer industry, some of Silicon Valley's brightest stars told British Prime Minister Tony Blair ==========> 06-08-02-USACM-PiecesOfCompetitivenessInitaitiveSlowlyMoveForward.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.7 August 4, 2006 ============================================================= PIECES OF AMERICAN COMPETITIVENESS INITATIVE SLOWLY MOVE FORWARD The American Competitiveness Initiative, proposed by the President during his 2006 State of the Union Address, has been embraced by Congress on ==========> 06-08-04-USACM-ScientistsFindCongressAccessToScientificAdviceLacking.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.7 August 4, 2006 ============================================================= SCIENTISTS FIND CONGRESS' ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC ADVICE LACKING On July 19 the House Science Committee held a hearing exploring Congress' need for scientific and technical advice. ==========> 06-08-07-LATimes-CongressStrugglesToUnderstandHighTechIssues.txt========== http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.digital07aug07,0,1332851.sto ry?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines Low-tech lawmakers try to handle high-tech issues By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Originally published August 7, 2006 WASHINGTON // Halfway through a recent House hearing on MySpace and other online social networks, lawmakers had to switch gears to deal with another technology issue -- a vote on Internet gambling. ==========> 06-09-01-ScienceMag-USNeedsToMakeStrongerCommittmentToScienceAndMath.txt========== http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5791/1235b Other Nations Catching Up to United States Science (09/01/06) Vol. 313, No. 5791, P. 1235; Rattner, Justin The United States needs to make a stronger commitment to science and mathematics if it does not want to see other nations surpass it in scientific breakthroughs and technical innovation within the next 10 years, writes Intel CTO Justin Rattner. Rattner, who keeps a close eye on the research that is taking place at Intel labs around the world, notes that India and China are ==========> 06-09-07-AP-PhiladelphiaHighTechHighSchoolOpens.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15463748.htm Posted on Thu, Sep. 07, 2006 The Philadelphia experiment: Microsoft-designed school opens DEBORAH YAO, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has famously called high schools "obsolete" and warned about their effect on U.S. competitiveness. Now, his company has a chance to prove that it can help fix the woes of public education. ==========> 06-09-08-ChronHigherEd-BillsToTrainMoreScientistsInDoubt.txt========== Bills to Train More Scientists Go Down to the Wire Chronicle of Higher Education (09/08/06) Vol. 53, No. 3, P. A19; Brainard, Jeffrey With Congress' adjournment for the midterm elections imminent, university leaders are clamoring for the passage of some kind of legislation designed to relieve a perceived shortage of American scientists and engineers. Bills for raising the federal allotment of physical sciences research funding stand a good chance of being passed, but there is less enthusiasm among legislators for upping funding for college-level science training, which has been cited by ==========> 06-09-08-PhilaInq-PhiladelphiaHighTechHighSchoolOpens.txt========== http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/phila delphia_county/philadelphia/15469414.htm Posted on Fri, Sep. 08, 2006 High-tech high Phila.’s School of the Future opens with laptops, smart cards, and almost no books. By Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Philadelphia's $63 million "School of the Future" - built under the guidance of ==========> 06-09-27-CompResAssoc-ALookAtInnovationAndCompetitvenessLegislation.txt========== http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/archives/000531.html September 27, 2006 Innovation and Competitiveness: How'd we do? Computing Research Association With the members of the 109th Congress getting ready to leave town this week and not come back until mid-November (giving them plenty of time for last-minute campaigning in their home districts), it seems appropriate to take a look at what they've accomplished in addressing some of the innovation and ==========> 06-10-06-USACM-USCompetitivenessLegislationStallsInCongress.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.9, October 6, 2006 COMPETITIVENESS LEGISLATION STALLS BEFORE CONGRESS HEADS HOME In the ongoing saga of the American Competitiveness Initiative (a Presidential proposal to increase basic research funding, expand math and science education programs, reform high-skilled worker immigration, and extend R&D tax credits), Senate leadership recently introduced the National Competitiveness Investment Act (S3936) intended to bolster domestic competitiveness. This legislation breaks from the President's original ==========> 06-10-19-Nature-PlanningUSSciencePolicyFor2009.txt========== http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7113/full/443751a.html Planning for US Science Policy in 2009 Nature (10/19/06) Vol. 443, No. 7113, P. 751; Kalil, Thomas Since the next president will begin creating his or her initial policy priorities in early 2009, the science and technology community should begin devising a plan to garner the financial attention, and resources, it sees appropriate, writes former Clinton administration science and technology policy advisor Thomas Kalil. Becoming part of the initial fiscal policy laid down by ==========> 06-11-13-USACM-OutlookFortechPolicyInTheNextCongress.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=435 USACM, November 13, 2006 Meet the New Boss: Outlook for Technology Policy in the Next Congress The outcome of last week’s election is now clear with the Democrats taking over the legislative branch. The dust, however, is far from settled. Democrats have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact on technology policy. What shape this will take is unclear, because much of it will be dictated by the new House and Senate Chairpersons who have not organized or set any agendas ==========> 06-11-21-CRA-NSFAsksCRAToFormComputingCommunityConsortiumToProvideResearchAdvice.txt========== http://www.cra.org/ccc/ NSF Taps CRA to Form Computing Community Consortium [Accessed Nov. 21, 2006] Under an agreement with the National Science Foundation, CRA will establish a consortium of computing experts that will provide scientific leadership and vision on issues related to computing research and future large-scale computing research projects. ==========> 06-12-21-USACM-RadicalEducationReformNeededForChallengesOfGobalization.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.12 December 21, 2006 ============================================================= RADICAL EDUCATION REFORM REQUIRED FOR THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION A high-profile commission, The New Commission on the Skills of the The American Workforce, released a report on December 14 calling for a radical overhaul of America's education system. The goal is no less than installing ==========> 06-12-21-USACM-USDOCNamesInnovationMeasuringCommittee.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.12 December 21, 2006 ============================================================= COMMERCE DEPARTMENT NAMES MEASURING INNOVATION COMMITTEE On December 6th, the Secretary of Commerce named the 15 members of the Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy Advisory Committee. A mix of business and academic leaders, the Committee will "study metrics on ==========> 06-12-22-InfoWorld-CongressionalDemocratsExpectedToFocusOnBackburnerTechIssues.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/22/HNcongress07_1.html Congress in '07: Privacy, patents on agenda Many technology advocates expect Democrats will focus on backburner issues under Republicans By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, December 22, 2006 Some technology vendors and advocacy groups see new opportunities in the U.S. Congress in 2007, with issues such as patent reform and data protection getting fresh life under a Democratic-controlled legislature. ==========> 07-01-18-BusWeek-LeadersCommentOnKeepingResearcgAndLeadershipInUS.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2007/sb20070118_135378.htm Business Week, January 18, 2007 Keeping Research and Leadership at Home, by Vivek Wadhwa Nine leaders offer their opinions on what the U.S. should do to hold onto its braintrust and stay on the cutting edge of innovation Globalization is reality. U.S. businesses see tremendous opportunities abroad and will increasingly locate their operations closer to growth markets. They will also outsource engineering jobs to reduce costs and move their research ==========> 07-01-23-GaTech-GeorgiaTechGetsNSFGrantToExpandPipelineOfStudentsAndFacultyInComputing.txt========== http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1248 Contact Elizabeth Campellelizabeth.campell@icpa.gatech.edu, 404-894-4233 Computing Awarded NSF Grant to Broaden CS Pipeline $2 Million NSF Grant to Develop Programs to Broaden Participation in Computer Science at all Educational Levels Atlanta (January 23, 2007) — The College of Computing at Georgia Tech, a national leader in the creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress, today announced that it has been awarded ==========> 07-02-07-USACM-CongressionalScienceCommitteesNewLook-TechPolicyToBePriority.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.1 February 7, 2007 ============================================================= [3] 110TH CONGRESS: SCIENCE COMMITTEE GETS A NEW LOOK; TECHNOLOGY POLICY A PRIORITY While we've known about some of the changes in the House Science and Technology Committee (including the new name) for a while, Rep. Bart Gordon ==========> 07-03-05-InfoWorld-SenEnsignBillWouldPutMoreMoneyIntoMathAndScienceEducation.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/05/HNsencompete_1.html Senator introduces U.S. "competitiveness" bill Legislation aims to pump more money into math and science education for children By Grant Gross, IDG News Service, InfoWorld, March 05, 2007 A group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation that aims to improve how U.S. workers and industries compete against the rest of the world by pumping more money into math and science programs. ==========> 07-03-06-USACM-USDOCAdvisoryCommitteeReviewsInnovationMetrics.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.2 March 6, 2007 ============================================================= COMMERCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE REVIEWS INNOVATION METRICS A high-profile government advisory group on innovation met in Washington on February 22. Its objective is to make recommendations for new and revised metrics to better capture innovative activity. We noted this group in December, shortly after it was formed. The agenda, members, and other ==========> 07-03-07-CompWorld-MSCEOTestifiesAboutDecliningScienceAndEngineeringAndResearchFunding.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9012492&intsrc=hm_list Gates testifies about declining enrollments, research funding Computer science undergrads vanishing, while competition for dollars increases Patrick Thibodeau March 07, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates warned Congress today that the ability of the U.S. to "remain a technology powerhouse" is in jeopardy. His testimony drew focus to some trends in basic research and ==========> 07-04-06-USACM-CongressTakesUpCompetitivenessLegislation.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.3 April 6, 2007 NEW CONGRESS TAKES UP COMPETITIVENESS LEGISLATION If Congressional intentions materialize as Members hope, expect competitiveness legislation to come to the floor of both houses soon after the April Recess. ==========> 07-05-08-USACM-CompetitivenessLegislationAdvancesInCongress.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.4 May 8, 2007 ============================================================= COMPETITIVENESS LEGISLATION ADVANCES IN CONGRESS Three bills intended to strengthen America's innovation ecosystem took an important step toward becoming law in April - they passed one of the houses ==========> 07-06-01-Science-ChangesInTheEclogyOfInnovation.txt========== Science Magazine, June 1, 2007 Editorial: Changes in Innovation Ecology, By William A. Wulf* Globalization has introduced both uncertainties and opportunities worldwide. In the United States, a flurry of recent books and reports has told the country how to be competitive in the 21st century, from Thomas L. Freidman's The World is Flat, to the National Academies'Rising Above the Gathering Storm, and at least a dozen more. All note the historic strength of the United States in innovation and suggest that reinvigorating this capability is key to future prosperity. The resulting recommendations relate to an ==========> 07-06-06-GovtCompNews-Rashid-AdvancedDevelopmentIsNotResearch.txt========== http://www.gcn.com/print/26_13/44406-1.html Rick Rashid | Innovation pipeline Interview with Rick Rashid, Microsoft Research chief By Joab Jackson, GCN Staff [Accessed June 6, 2007] "A lot of times, when people talk about applied research, they’re really talking about advanced product development. That’s not really research." Rick Rashid ==========> 07-07-10-NYT-WilliamWulfDeterminedToReinspireACultureOfInnovation.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/science/10prof.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, July 10, 2007 Determined to Reinspire a Culture of Innovation, By CORNELIA DEAN WASHINGTON — Like everyone else, William A. Wulf understands the importance of innovation in the American economy, and how innovation depends on an educated workforce and abundant spending on research. But learning and investment are not enough, Dr. Wulf says. An innovation ==========> 07-07-13-TechDaily-ScienceAdvocatesEyeIncreasedFederalResources.txt========== http://govexec.com/dailyfed/0707/071307tdpm1.htm Science, tech advocates eye increased federal resources By Aliya Sternstein National Journal's Technology Daily July 13, 2007 Six months into 2007, education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM education, is finally getting much needed attention in Washington, education advocates and lawmakers say. "The budget request contained the first meaningful increase for the National ==========> 07-08-02-CongGordon-USHousePassedBillToInvestInScience.txt========== For immediate release Contact: Alisha Prather 202-225-6375 August 2, 2007 alisha.prather@mail.house.gov Gordon: House Passes Landmark Bill Investing in America's Students, Teachers, Workers (Washington, DC) Members of the U.S. House of Representatives passed groundbreaking legislation today aimed at ensuring the United States' strong footing as a global economic leader and retaining our "brainpower advantage." "Now is the time for us to strengthen our support for the creativity, the innovation and the talented workforce that makes the U.S. unique and gives us our competitive edge," said Science & Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon ==========> 07-08-03-USACM-USCongressPassedLandmarkInnovationLegislation.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.7 August 3, 2007 ============================================================= HOUSE AND SENATE PASS LANDMARK INNOVATION LEGISLATION After two years of discussion, Congress has finally agreed to a comprehensive "competitiveness" legislative package intended to create, expand and bolster programs that foster innovation and domestic talent. The ==========> 07-08-09-DigitalJ-BushSignsAmericaCompetesActProviding30BForScienceAndTechnology.txt========== http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/215624/Bush_Signs_Law_Giving_More_Than_30_ Billion_to_Science_and_Tech_Fields Bush Signs Law Giving More Than $30 Billion to Science and Tech Fields Posted Aug 9, 2007 by [Digital Journal Staff] Christopher Hogg in Politics | 35 comments | 956 views Digital Journal — Signing off on the America Competes Act into law today, Bush authorized $33.6 billion to government-supported research, education and teacher-training programs in the field of science and technology. ==========> 07-08-10-NSF-NationalScienceBoardApprovesEducationActionPlanForUS.txt========== http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/nsf-nsb081007.php National Science Foundation: 10-Aug-2007 National Science Board approves national action plan for 21st century stem education The National Science Board (Board) yesterday unanimously adopted a motion to release for public comment a draft action plan to address critical 21st century needs in the nation's STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education system. Two overarching actions stressed in the plan are increasing