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2 LINKING THE CSTB COMMUNITY TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: EXPERT ADVICE FOR POLICYMAKERS
2 LINKING THE CSTB COMMUNITY TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: EXPERT ADVICE FOR POLICYMAKERS
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Nelson I am Mike Nelson from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. I am one of the two people at the White House who work full-time on information technology policy issues.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) was dealing with the question of establishing supercomputer centers, particularly how to link them together in something that would be called NSFnet.
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It also spoke to academics, saying that they should broaden academic computer science and engineering. Prophetically, the report recommended broadening HPCC to mission agencies, and this certainly happened.
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The report also says, "Do not put all the computer science eggs in the HPCC basket," as well as, "Adjust what you call HPCC so that you keep the books properly." Also in 1995, Information Technology for Manufacturing did an excellent job of laying out a research agenda to address how computing can help on the factory floor. The report is, in a sense, a companion to Information Technology in the Service Society; however, it argues that because the shop floor allows better productivity measurement, it is going to be easier to show that computing has actually helped.
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Dates apply to horizontal bars, but not to arrows showing transfer of ideas and people. Reprinted from Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council.
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On the other side, through the Department of Commerce, there is the Information Infrastructure Task Force that addresses information technology implementation issues. Somehow, the advice that CSTB provides has to influence and pull all of these together into a common framework.
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. We all know that information technology is going to radically transform education in the twenty-first century, but how?
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If you looked at the list of topics that David Nelson has talked about, CSTB has been involved in all of the real issues of the past and present right on top of themsometimes a year or two before the fact, sometimes a year or two after. The history of CSTB has tracked the history of information technology.
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Even though this is the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, CSTB is having a growing impact internationally. I meet with a lot of people from other countries who want to know how to build up the Internet in their country.
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I. . "7 ~ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council.
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