The National Challenge in Computer Science and Technology (1988) / Chapter Skim
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If progress in these areas is sufficient to maintain the United States at a level of rough parity with other nations, then national primacy in computer science and technology could supply a much-needed competitive edge. Another significant element of the challenge of continued leadership in computer science and technology involves the national d~ tense.
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If the U.S. government does not continue its established role in guiding and supporting basic research in computer science, no one else mill.
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SUPPORT FUNDAMENTAL ADVANCES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Continued national strength in any industrial sector calls for sustained, long-term research and development. At a tune when other nations are targeting and strengthening their own national research and development efforts in computer-related basic researchexamples include Japan's SIGMA project and the European Econom~c Community's Esprit project (U.S.
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Hardware-based fault tolerance requires research in redundant architectures at the component level. Software-based fault tolerance requires research in software-based dynamic reconfiguration of systems, involving concepts of virtual memories, virtual processes, and virtual data paths.
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Research problems in this area include knowledge capture for reverse engineering and replication, design for manufacturability, and robotics. Each of the above grand challenges would require and would generate significant breakthroughs and fundamental advances in computer science and technology.
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The average computer science department has 18.5 faculty, while the average mathematics department has 30.2 (NSF 1987, Gries and Marsh 1988~. Since the top-ranked universities are already producing Ph.D.s to the limits of their capacities, the pool of research talent can be expanded only by substantially increasing the funding for additional computer science departments and by funding efforts to unprove the teaching of computer science and technology at ad educational levels.
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Strengthen the Research Environment Computer science has a strong experunental component whose past progress has been intimately linked to the availability of advanced experimental resources. Accordingly, we recommend making possible the acquisition by research centers of advanced computer workstations, high-performance machines, multiprocessors, and other advanced computer technology research tools on an ongoing basis to guarantee that computer science researchers have at Al times the best available tools to continue advancing the state of the art.
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Acreage Ennding for Basic Research The board recommends that increased funding be directed to the promising technological areas outlined in Part ~ and discussed in more detail in Part Il. Those areas fall within the categories of machines, systems, and software; artificial intelligence; and theoretical computer science.
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