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Counter, who is also an assistant professor of neurology, cited a desire to return full time to his scientific research in audiology and neurobiology as the basic for his resignation...
...hour, Mr. X has demonstrated why the United States government is shaking up the National Science Foundation (NSI)--the nation's top agency for funding basic research. Over whelming foreign technological competition over the past decade, especially from Japan, has produced a growing sense of concern among government officials that we may be losing the battle for good. Moreover, there is increasing, evidence that Japanese corporations are not ready to relent, as they guide further ahead of their American counterparts, particularly in robotics, microelectronics and material science...
...significant recent move has been the appointment of Erich Bloch, a former IBM director who is widely regarded as a pure high tech promoter and a leading engineering manager. He has taken the initial step of fashioning a new policy and managerial strategy to make the NSI both a basic research and a technology foundation...
While such moves may not appear particularly earth shattering, they are likely to produce reverberations of unusual proportions. The NSI has traditionally supported basic research period with the argument being that science operates best when it drives itself. In other words, basic science drives technology...
...last year; and The Brain, which premiered last Wednesday (each can be seen on more than 260 PBS stations). The others: Congress: We the People, a 26-part examination of the nation's legislative process; The New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers; and The Write Bourse, which teaches basic writing skills. Another new PBS series, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, an impressively mounted survey of Jewish history with Abba Eban as host, is not related to the Annenberg/CPB Project, but is also designed as a college telecourse. Toother these shows form a video curriculum that is more varied, stimulating...