Peter Lee @ February 17, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The end of the Tether era at DARPA has generated a lot of speculation about Tether’s successor — though nothing yet that seems all that credible. But what about DARPA itself in the post-Tether era? Randy Katz and I gave some of our thoughts on “Re-envisioning DARPA,” but I thought it might be worth a […]
Peter Lee @ January 17, 2009 # 2 Comments
I’ve just finished a meeting of the NRC CSTB, held at Google in Mountain View. I shouldn’t say too much about what went on, but it’s worth noting that I detected a sense of hope in the air. The new Administration seems to be taking science and technology research very seriously, as a key element […]
Peter Lee @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bill Buxton (Microsoft Research) has a nice opinion piece in the current issue of BusinessWeek entitled, “The Price of Forgoing Basic Research“. He argues forcefully for greater investment in basic research, explaining that “the return on investment goes down as the R&D budget shifts from basic to applied research”. Besides the problem of corporations abandoning […]
Peter Lee @ December 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The last two weeks have been incredibly busy. With all of the end-of-semester activities, proposal deadlines, and so on, it’s been two weeks since I last made an entry here — I think this is CSDiary’s longest “dead” period this year! A lot has been happening, though. So now that things are getting back to […]
Peter Lee @ November 23, 2008 # 8 Comments
A few weeks ago Berkeley’s Randy Katz told me about an interesting book by one of his colleagues, Richard Muller. It’s called “Physics for Future Presidents” and is based on a course by the same name.
The book is described as explaining the “science behind the headlines — the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear […]