Word: nsf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Scheme Foundation (NSF) announced yesterday that it will award about $70 million over the next five years to a consortium of Harvard and 11 other universities and institutions for a research-oriented Supercomputer center...
...counter commercial decline, government officials have turned to the NSF to push universities, research institutions and businesses to return us to glory days of high tech superiority. In particular, they are goading the NSI to clean up its outmoded methods of management and emphasis on short-term profits, and turn instead to a revitalized long term planning agenda. And to top it off, they are driving the NSF to somehow beef up its engineering research programs...
...moves, especially RAIN, pose a number of crucial questions about the role of the nation's largest research supporter: should the NSF serve industry by funding applied research? Or would an entirely new government office geared toward technology be more appropriate...
...NSF provides a vital function to the nation's advancement of science, but it may be pushing itself too far if it becomes a foundation supporting industry. This is not to say that industry should be left hanging while basic research scoops up all the support. Instead, a new agency to handle the rapidly expanding technology boom is necessary. Moreover, because of the growing importance of technology research, if the NSI hopes to support both basic research and technology, it appears as though basic research may take a back seat...
...government should look to establish a national foundation to focus primarily on revitalizing U.S. technology, but at the same time should leave the NSF to support and manage the broader arena of free inquiry into basic scientific research...