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...vBNS is contracted out to MCI by the National Science Foundation (NSF)--one of the principal parties involved in forming the current Internet...
Separate from ARPANET, the National Science Foundation (NSF) built NSFNET in 1986, comprised of five supercomputers that served as the Internet's backbone until the Internet was privatized earlier this decade...
...based solar stations. By keeping a day-to-day eye on solar weather features such as the sun's "trade winds" and "jet streams," these new high-tech observatories are creating what the assembled researchers hailed as a revolution in their field. An exultant John Leibacher, director of the NSF solar program, said, "I have been [observing the sun] for 40 years, and I never had any hope that we would be able to see these things...
Science students watch out: the Federal Government is coming for your degree. The National Science Foundation, which has a lot of clout and a $3billion budget, will meet Thursday in Washington D.C. to discuss possible changes to PhDs and other courses in science and engineering. The problem, as the NSF see it, is that there are too many students and not enough academic slots for them to fill. One solution being floated is to have a more generic "doctor of science" degree that could be more easily adapted to the needs of industry. TIME Daily's soultion: take a leaf...
...looking at it as a transition from being an NSF funded center, to a national center that still does high-end computing, but with different sources of funding," he said...