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...over $100 million which Congress appropriates yearly for NSF, according to Stone, only $15 million goes for social science research, and only $300,000 of that for computer applications in the social sciences. "We need at least a ten-fold increase in computer funds." Stone said...
...Harvard faculty members have contacted top officials in the National Science Foundation (NSF) in an effort to convince them to ask Congress for a dramatic increase in appropriations for projects which, like the Cambridge Project. use computers for social science research...
Philip J. Stone III, professor of Social Relations, and Marshall S. Smith '59, assistant professor of Education: went to Washington two weeks ago and made this suggestion to the director of the NSF's Social Science. Division and to the director of that division's "special project" section. Stone said yesterday that the reaction of the NSF officials was "very supportive...
Besides the NSF officials. Stone and Smith talked with an aide to Lee A. DuBridge. President Nixon's science adviser, and with aides to Sens. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and to Rep. Emilio Q. Daddario (D-Conn.). Kennedy and Daddario head Congressional subcommittees that recommend to Congress how much money to authorize for science research organizations like NSF...
That increase, as Stone sees it, must come from increasing Congress's appropriations to NSF, rather than from redistribution of the funds which NSF already has. "The NSF has no directive at picking up its social science funds unless Congress tells it to." he said...