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...manufacturing giant is crying foul after it lost a $35 billion U.S. Air Force contract to a consortium including the European parent company of Airbus. Boeing has filed a formal protest with the government, saying the selection process was "seriously flawed...
Faust's testimony is part of a Harvard-led effort by a consortium of research universities to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health...
...spoke in favor of increasing federal funding for biomedical research before a U.S. Senate committee yesterday.Faust’s testimony capped a Harvard-led effort to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Working as part of a larger consortium of universities, Harvard spearheaded the lobbying push, which began with a report and congressional appearances last spring.Yesterday’s testimony, as well as a second report, ”A Broken Pipeline?,” released at a press conference immediately preceding the hearing, focused on the funding...
...project is being conducted in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, the Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium, and the Missouri Botanical Garden...
...broken down boundaries and created a culture that uses shared space. “We’re making standards for a world in which people use the Web to communicate,” said Berners-Lee, who now serves as the director of the World Wide Web Consortium. “When they use the Web to communicate, they’re in a world of overlapping cultures, overlapping communities.” Berners-Lee said that one of his hopes for the future of the Internet is the semantic Web—an evolution of the World Wide...