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MAKING IT BETTER: EXPANDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH TO MEET SOCIETY'S NEEDS
AT&T Corporation, 179
expenditures on R&D, 64 , 77-78
historical structuring of, 81
patents held by, 84
recent trends in research by, 30-31
redirection of research at, 72-73
work on speech recognition, 21
AUPs. see Acceptable Use Policies
AUTM. see Association of University Technology Managers
Automata theory, 139
Automatic programmer capability, goal for information technology research, 24
Availability issues, 116-118
B
BAAs. see Broad agency announcements
BankBoston, 92
Basic research, defining, x , 26
Bell Atlantic, 102
Bell Communications Research Corporation (Bellcore), 77
Bell Laboratories, 72 , 76-77
Benchmarks, 139
Berkeley Wireless Research Center, 182
Billing fraud, detecting, 76
Boeing Company, 66 , 80 , 83 , 97
Brahe, Tycho, 26
Broad agency announcements (BAAs), 62-63
Brooks, Fred, 139
Brooks-Sutherland report, 121
Bugs, 116
testing for, 112
Bureau of Land Management, troubled systems at, 102
Bureau of the Census, 49 , 64 , 66 , 96
need for the National Science Foundation to work with, 13 , 205-206
Business process challenges, 154
Business research, related to information technology, 169
Business system context, embedding large-scale systems within larger, 6
Business Week Online,
C
C programming language, 23
CAD. see Computer-aided design
California Department of Motor Vehicles, troubled systems at, 102-103
California Institute of Technology, Computational Facility for Simulating the Dynamic Response of Materials, 96
Carnegie Mellon University, 17 , 29 , 62 , 90 , 92 , 163
Department of Engineering and Public Policy, 173
Information Networking Institute, 182
Software Engineering Institute, 158-159
CASE. see Computer-aided software engineering tools
Case research, 124 , 156
CBO. see Congressional Budget Office
CCIC. see Committee on Computing, Information and Communications
Census Bureau. See Bureau of the Census
Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, 96
Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulation, 96
Center for Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions, 96
Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, 96
Central research laboratories, countertrend in, 76-79
Challenges. See Research challenges
Changes to systems, unintended and unanticipated consequences of, 5
Changing needs of users, 5
Chronicle of Higher Education,
CIAO. see Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
CIC. see Committee on Information and Communications
Cisco Systems, 81 , 86 , 92
expenditures on R&D, 70 , 78
CISE. see Computing and Information Science and Engineering directorate
Citicorp, 83-84
Civil engineering applications, 158
Clickstream data, analyzing, 180
Clinton, President William, 47
Clinton Administration, xii , 3 , 10 , 62 , 198 , 201
Cohen, Wes, 163
Collaboration
applications involving, 106
challenges in, 153