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11	This time last year … Austere research budgets as far as the eye could see
12	This time last year … NITRD flat-lined and headed downward
13	This time last year … PITAC and PCAST marginalized; Administration
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15	Elements of the ACI Research Commitment to double NSF, DoE SC, NIST over 10 years Make permanent the R&D tax credit Education 70,000 new teachers, alternative teacher certification, bolster AP, improve participation in math and science Workforce/Immigration Expand worker training programs Flexible H-1B caps, reform visa issues
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39	The point is not to be self-congratulatory or to over-state the role that we played But we did have a strategy and it was effective! Get the facts straight about DARPA and computer science This really got the ball rolling! Hitch ourselves to the Duderstadt and Augustine National Academies reports, rather than going it alone We became the poster children for their message
40	The road ahead … Gotta get the money for science and engineering overall The ACI is not a done deal – there are many competing priorities Gotta be sure that IT is not viewed as yesterday’s news Must articulate multiple compelling research visions! Gotta improve the perception of the field -- and the reality, as well A great field for all people to study in and work in A great foundation for any career
41	Why us? (Why computing?) Advances in computing change the way we live, work, learn, and communicate Advances in computing drive advances in nearly all other fields Advances in computing power our economy Not just through the growth of the IT industry – through Multi Factor Productivity Growth throughout the economy Advances in computing are the cornerstone of our national security Computing is a field of huge intellectual opportunity Computing is where the jobs are
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46	Intellectual opportunity “… the software industry is going to make more breakthroughs in these next 10 years than it's made in the last 30 … software is really going to transform not just what we think about as the computer industry, but the way that everything is done …”
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56	Computer Science Study Group (CS2G) DARPA program (in conjunction with IDA) to fund research up to $750,000 in broad computer science and information management/processing to provide revolutionary advances in problems of significance to DoD Eligibility – U.S. citizen, tenure-track junior faculty in any department, eligible for classified security clearance
57	Computer Science Study Group Program First year – get Secret clearance, orientation on DoD organization and processes, visit operational, training and research activities and services to see first-hand and understand environment and challenges, attend research workshops, prepare research proposals Second year – receive grant up to $500K, perform research at university, continue visits Third year – optional additional research up to $250K with matching funds Details at www.DARPA.mil Contact Pete Kind, PKind@ida.org
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60	"Contact Fred Chang" Contact Fred Chang, in attendance at Snowbird
61	"Lab R&D is vibrant" Lab R&D is vibrant! Accenture Technology Labs Argonne National Laboratory Avaya CA Labs Computer Science Research Institute at Sandia National Labs Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering Fujitsu Laboratories of America Google Hewlett-Packard Company IBM Research IDA Center for Computing Sciences Intel Corporation Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs McAfee Research Microsoft Corporation Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs National Center for Atmospheric Research NCSA NEC Laboratories America NTT DoCoMo USA Labs Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Panasonic Information & Networking Technologies Lab Ricoh Innovations San Diego Supercomputer Center SAP Labs SRI International Sun Microsystems Telcordia Technologies
62	The road ahead … Gotta get the money for science and engineering overall The ACI is not a done deal – there are many competing priorities Gotta be sure that IT is not viewed as yesterday’s news Must articulate multiple compelling research visions! Gotta improve the perception of the field -- and the reality, as well A great field for all people to study in and work in A great foundation for any career
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65	"http://www.cs.washington.edu/WhyCSE" http://www.cs.washington.edu/WhyCSE/
66	It doesn’t get much better than this!
67	For further information … The Promise of Computing http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/promise/ Jim Gray’s Turing Award talk http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/talks/Gray_Turing_FCRC.ppt Microsoft 2020 Science http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science NRC Rising Above the Gathering Storm http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374292795/ UW CSE recruiting videos http://www.cs.washington.edu/WhyCSE/ This talk http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/snowbird/ PowerPoint source http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/snowbird/snowbird.ppt