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Computing Research Funding: Circling the Wagons or Expanding the Frontiers?
Ed Lazowska
Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & EngineeringUniversity of Washington
June 2006http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/snowbird/
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This time last year …
Austere research budgets as far as the eye could see
This time last year …
NITRD flat-lined and headed downward
This time last year …
apparently oblivious to many things, including that our national competitiveness was at risk
PITAC and PCAST marginalized; Administration
Then, on January 31 2006 …
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
* requestSources: Investing in Our Future, PITAC, 1999; NCO/IT R&D, 2004
* requestSources: Investing in Our Future, PITAC, 1999; NCO/IT R&D, 2006
How did we get there?
Among the key influencers/marketers:
Norm AugustineChuck Vest
Lamar AlexanderJohn ChambersCraig Barrett
Gordon MooreBill Brody
CoC/InnovateAmerica
Pentagon redirects its research dollarsby John Markoff
April 2, 2005
Our Incredible Shrinking Curiosityby Rick Weiss
April 10, 2005
Research worth fighting forOpEd by John M. Deutch and
William H. Perry
April 13, 2005
Bush disarms, unilaterally
OpEd by Tom Friedman
April 15, 2005
Quiet Change in Priorities Poses Dire Threat
Editorial
April 17, 2005
Bad Policy Choices are Worrisome for U.S. Economy’s Future
by Norman J. Ornstein
April 20, 2005
Congress Must Increase Bush’s Science Budget
by Morton M. Kondracke
April 25, 2005
An Endless Frontier PostponedOpEd by Ed Lazowska and
Dave Patterson
May 6, 2005
The Imagination DrainEditorial
May 6, 2005
Scientists Complain About Pentagon Cutsby Matthew Fordhal
May 11, 2005
Virtually UnprotectedEditorial
June 2, 2005
America Gasps For Breathin the R&D Marathon
OpEd by Harris Miller and Vint Cerf
July 27, 2005
A Techie, Absolutely,And Moreby Steve Lohr
August 23, 2005
Investing in Tomorrowby Mort Zuckerman
September 8, 2005
Ready for High-Tech Progressby Sebastian Mallaby
October 17, 2005
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
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
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
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
Projected Science & Engineering Job Openings(new jobs plus net replacements, 2004-2014)
Engineers22%
Social Scientists9%
Life scientists4%
Physical scientists4%
Mathematical scientists2%
Computer specialists59%
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2005http://w w w .bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/11/art5full.pdf
59%
Projected Science & Engineering Job Creation(new jobs, 2004-2014)
Engineers15%
Social Scientists7%
Life scientists4%
Physical scientists2%
Mathematical scientists1%
Computer specialists71%
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2005http://w w w .bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/11/art5full.pdf
71%
“… 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 …”
Intellectual opportunity
Re-architecting the Internet
Harnessing parallelism
Quantum computing
Transforming all fieldsof science and engineering
Wrecklessdriving
PersonalizedHealth care
A teacherfor every learner
Flatteningthe world Computing, innovation,
and creativity
Prosthetics / augmentation /
access
Computational biology and medicine
The personal Memex
The end of business travel
Transforming the nation’s defense
Synthetic biology
Computing Research Funding
Task Force
CACS
AIC
Response prepared on behalf of CRA by
Andy Bernat Ed LazowskaRandy Bryant Peter LeeSusan Graham Dan ReedAnita Jones Wim SweldensDick Karp Jeff VitterKen Kennedy
Support letters from 132 academic institutions, 16 companies, 7 centers/labs, 5 professional societies
May 10, 2006 NSB/CPP Information Item
GENI is an advanced, flexible,
programmable instrument for networking and distributed systems research.
Mobile Wireless Network
Sensor Network
Edge Site
CISE Organization*
C o m p utin g a ndC o m m u n ica tion
F o un d atio ns(C C F )
C o m p ute r a ndN e tw o rkS ys te m s
(C N S )
In fo rm ationIn te llig e n tS ys te m s
(IIS )
O ffice o f theA ss is ta n tD ire c to r
* The Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure (SCI) transitioned to OCI in July 2005
&
NSF
DARPA
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
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.milContact Pete Kind, [email protected]
NIH
Willy Sutton
Contact Fred Chang, in attendance at Snowbird
NSA
Lab R&D is vibrant!Accenture Technology LabsArgonne National LaboratoryAvayaCA LabsComputer Science Research Institute
at Sandia National LabsFraunhofer Center for Experimental
Software EngineeringFujitsu Laboratories of AmericaGoogleHewlett-Packard CompanyIBM Research IDA Center for Computing SciencesIntel CorporationLawrence Berkeley National
LaboratoryLos Alamos National LaboratoryLucent Technologies, Bell Labs
McAfee ResearchMicrosoft CorporationMitsubishi Electric Research LabsNational Center for Atmospheric
ResearchNCSANEC Laboratories AmericaNTT DoCoMo USA LabsPacific Northwest National
LaboratoryPanasonic Information & Networking
Technologies LabRicoh InnovationsSan Diego Supercomputer CenterSAP LabsSRI InternationalSun MicrosystemsTelcordia Technologies
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
“It’s the software, stupid!”
It doesn’t get much better than this!
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
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
For further information …