A friend reminded me that “Endless Frontier” is an explicit allusion to the famous address to President Truman in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, “*Science, the Endless Frontier <https://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm>.*” Note that one of the sections of this is titled "For the War Against Disease." _________________________ Brian A. Berg / bberg@StanfordAlumni.org Berg Software Design - LinkedIn Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianaberg/> 14500 Big Basin Way, Suite F, Saratoga, CA 95070 USA Voice: 408.741.5010 / Cell: 408.568.2505 Consulting: Flash Memory/USB/Storage/Patents visit the Storage Cornucopia: www.bswd.com FMS Technical Chair: www.FlashMemorySummit.com IEEE Milestone <http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:List_of_IEEE_Milestones> Coordinator & History Chair for Region 6 <http://www.ieee-region6.org/> IEEE SCV Section <http://www.ieee.org/scv/> Past Chair / IEEE-CNSV <http://www.CaliforniaConsultants.org> Board Director IEEE Silicon Valley Tech History Committee <http://www.SiliconValleyHistory.com/> Chair On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:53 PM Johannah Rodgers <johannah.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you, David!
All best,
Johannah
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:51 PM David Ribes <dribes@uw.edu> wrote:
For those of you interested in US science policy, especially about IT and computation, this is not to be missed:
U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100 billion plan to remake NSF
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/us-lawmakers-unveil-bold-100-billion...
It's just a senate proposal for now, but it looks like it has legs.
While I was caught off guard by the SCOPE of what they are proposing, the SHAPE is unsurprising to me, and looks a much like the NSF may be reorganized according to what I've been writing about recently as 'the logic of domains <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312719849709>': a vast and empowered new 'technology' directorate orbited by the various domains, with a support role articulated for social science. Too soon to say for sure, but it sure smells like it.
Regardless, it may of interest to members of this list, and I'd be curious if anyone knows more. I'll be following closely.
Here is another article, and then the somewhat inscrutable Senate doc itself:
https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/05/27/100b-plan-submitted-for-massive-remake-an...
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