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Embodying his initiative in the Administration budget released early last month, Reagan asked Congress for a 17 percent increase in funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), thefederal agency responsible for supporting basicscientific research, and recommended that theNSF's $1.49 billion budget be doubled...
...Harvard center specializing in roboticsresearch will receive a substantial increase infunding as a result of the initiative, said LouisG. Mayfield, director of the research program atthe NSF in Washington...
...NSF officials said the ERCs are different fromprevious federally-funded research centers atuniversities because of their emphasis onimproving the international economiccompetitiveness of American industry...
...charge of one of the new supercomputer centers it is establishing at four U.S. universities. The selected schools--Princeton, Cornell, the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign--were immediately dubbed the "supercomputer U's." Their new machines, acquired through a $200 million NSF grant, will be the core of a network connecting some 30 other schools. The network should dramatically increase the high-speed computing power available to thousands of researchers...
Indeed, U.S. scientists in recent years have been losing their competitive edge over colleagues in Europe and Asia. The NSF program that provided schools with state-of-the-art computers throughout the 1950s and 1960s was halted in 1972. Meanwhile, the governments of France, Germany, England and Japan aggressively subsidize supercomputer purchases for their leading universities. Says NSF Program Director Larry Lee: "It will take the U.S. a good two years to catch...