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New White House Science Head Bullish on Information Technology Research

March 5th, 2019 / in Announcements / by Khari Douglas

Kelvin Droegemeier

The following blog post is from CCC Chair Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Kelvin Droegemeier recently gave his first speech as the Head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) 2019 annual meeting in Washington, DC. He is a meteorologist who has done substantial computer modeling and the first non-Physicist to lead OSTP. See the 42-minute video of his talk here.

He called for all of us to continue our quest regarding Science’s “Endless Frontier” from Vannevar Bush’s eponymous 1945 report, beginning with a “portfolio analysis” of the US’s tremendous scientific strengths.

For those of us in Information Technology, it is striking how many of OSTP’s activities are in or can substantially benefit from IT. Topics mentioned include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum Information Science (QIS), Advanced Manufacturing, 5G/Broadband, and STEM education.

Our community looks forward to working with OSTP and others on all of these! The Computing Community Consortium(CCC) will be posting recap blogs about their sessions at AAAS 2019 in the coming weeks.

Disclaimer: Posts on this blog report on happenings, opportunities, and issues that arise in the broad computing research community, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the CCC or the National Science Foundation.


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New White House Science Head Bullish on Information Technology Research

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