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 R. D. Shelton, Editor:  rds@itri2.org
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In This Issue of ITRInews

The Next Crash: R&D Budgets
Japan Plans Another Big R&D Program
Sen. Bingaman Calls for Greater S&T Involvement in International Affairs
International Recruitment of Chinese Students
Lawyer to Lead Technology Policy Office
Venture Capitalist New PCAST Co-Chair
Presidential Appointment Watch from Brookings
ITRI Migration

Featured Organizations in International S&T:

A. International Websites That Have S&T News Pages:
C-SPAN: It's More Than Cable TV
France: Le Monde
France: FAST
Germany: Der Spiegel
Israel: Jerusalem Post
Japan: Japan Times
PRC: Xinhua Wire Service
PRC: Inside China Today
South Korea: Korea Herald
Taiwan: The China Post
UK: BBC
USA: New York Times
USA: IEEE Spectrum Online includes Reuters S&T News

B. General Sources:
Drudge Report
Newspapers of the World on the Internet
World Newspapers
Cyber Newstand
Associated Press Wire Service.

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The Next Crash: R&D Budgets The March issue summarized the Administration's Budget Blueprint.  The more detailed budget  of April 9 requests substantially less in R&D investments than the last Clinton Administration budget.  This reflects the President's priority to reduce the growth of discretionary government spending to an overall 4%, partly to provide room for his centerpiece $1.6 trillon tax cut.  The graph shows the effect on R&D investments at the main agencies: NIH, NSF, DOE, DOD and NASA.  A deduction of a 3.4% inflation estimate has been made in both years.  The Congress is likely to increase these figures somewhat.  FY2001 data from AAAS. http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/rd/capre01.htm#ag FY2002 data from FYI. http://www.aip.org/enews/ftm/ Percent Increase Over Previous Year in R&D  FY2001 FY2002 Agency Current Real Current Real NIH 14.4 11 13.5 10.1 DOD 6.4 3 2.1 -1.3 NASA 5.3 1.9 1.8 -1.6 NSF 13.2 9.8 0.5 -2.9 DOE 12.3 8.9 0.1 -3.3 USGS 8.1 4.7 -9.4 -12.8 NIST -8.5 -11.9 -18.4 -21.8 The apparent decrease in NIST for FY2001 was due to a large one-time building charged in FY2000.  USGS is the Geological Survey.

Japan Plans Another Big R&D Program  After the success of the first S&T 5-year plan in doubling government investment in R&D through 2000, Japan now plans to spend an additional $195 billion over the next five years.  This would increase government spending to 1% of GDP and put Japan near the top in R&D investments per GDP, counting both public and private sectors. Science March 30, p. 2529. NSF/Tokyo has a report on the second 5-year plan: http://www.twics.com/~nsftokyo/rm00-18.html

Sen. Bingaman Calls for Greater S&T Involvement in International Affairs  In a March 14 speech, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D, NM) supported recent initiatives to bolster the S&T presence at State, which he encouraged through legislation that established the post of S&T advisor to the Secretary of State. From FYI. http://www.aip.org/enews/ftm/

It means that when we talk about defending national security interests, we are talking about something other than obvious
political adversaries like those that were apparent in the Cold War.  We are talking about an environment where friends and
allies are less-defined and issues are less clear-cut.  We are talking about creating foreign policy goals that address a very
different world...but with the same degree of commitment and urgency that was present during the Cold War.  I am convinced
these goals can be achieved.  But it means that we must establish and improve our ability to innovate, to cooperate, to monitor,
and to analyze - all of which depend upon a sufficient, and preferably a substantial, level of STH [science, technology, and health] resources and expertise committed to sustaining our position as a world leader.

Lawyer to Lead Technology Policy Office Bruce Mehlman (Princeton '91)  was nominated as Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy of the Department of Commerce on April 3.  He was a lobbyist for Cisco, and previously served as general counsel and policy director for the House Republican Conference, where he focused on high-tech issues. [I originally thought that Mr. Mehlman had been nominated to be Undersecretary for Technology, one step up the org chart.  A reader alerted me to the error on Tuesday.]Tech Law Journal ran an article on an October speech of Mr. Mehlman's at:  http://www.techlawjournal.com/election/20001020.asp
 

Venture Capitalist New PCAST Co-Chair  President Bush has named Floyd Kvamme, an ardent Bush backer and a big campaign contributor, to a key White House S&T position.  Tapping Kvamme as co-chair of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology is part of Bush's outreach to the high-tech industry. Kvamme is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley high-technology venture capital firm. He was one of five founders of National Semiconductor in 1967, serving as its General Manager and building it into a billion-dollar company. In 1982 he became Executive Vice President of Marketing for Apple Computer. While at Apple, his responsibilities included worldwide sales, marketing, distribution and support. He holds a BSEE from UC Berkeley and an MSEE from  Syracuse. Earlier Kvamme had been in the running to be Secretary of Commerce.  http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svtop/bush032801.htm

 

Presidential Appointment Watch from Brookings The other co-chair of PCAST will be the President's Science Advisor, when that notable is named. If you'd like to get some advance rumors of appointments you can visit this Brookings Institute site.   http://www.appointee.brookings.org/resourcecenter/rumormill.htm One rumor posted on April 26 was that Don Upson would be the next Under Secretary for Technology at Commerce.  He is presently Virginia's Secretary for Technology. His bio is at http://www.sot.state.va.us/bio.htm

ITRI Migration  The ITRI fledglings have outgrown the incubator at Ocher House:

• WTEC, Inc. is moving to: 2205 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.  rds@wtec.org.  Bob Williams.  Geoff Holdridge and Roan Horning will be moving later. 410.467.9978
• E-DI, Inc. is also moving to: 2205 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.  rds@e-di.net. 800.697.7840, Galina Paikouch, E. S. Shelton.  Bob Margenthaler and Art Riehl work off-site.  Laura Pearson and L. A. Dockman will be moving later. 410.467.9978
• ITRI, Inc. has already moved to 1655 N. Ft. Myer Dr., #700, Arlington, VA 22209.    rds@itri2.org.  Steve Gould.  Y. T. Chien, George Gamota, and Brad Mooney work off-site. 703.465.5110
• Loyola/ ITRI remains at Ocher House, Loyola College, 4501 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210. rds@itri.loyola.edu 410.617.5001. Geoff Holdridge, Roan Horning. 410.617.5001

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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS THIS MONTH

This issue features S&T news websites around the world.  Most are S&T parts of the Web versions of newspapers, magazines, wire services, etc. They are in English unless noted.

C-SPAN: It's More Than TV Americans who have cable TV service have access to C-SPAN, which broadcasts political and government live events from Washington, DC. For example, you can get much of the news a day earlier by listening in on the press briefings where the reporters get their stories.  In the Washington area we are fortunate to also have C-SPAN on FM radio at 90.1MHz.  Now the Internet makes it possible for everyone to get most of the information, including a section on S&T: http://www.c-span.org/technology_science/

France: Le Monde In French http://www.lemonde.fr/sequence/0,5987,3244---,00.html

France: FAST If your French is a little rusty, you can depend on the the French Embassy in Washington to translate and summarize the main S&T stories from Paris. http://france-science.org/english/

Germany: Der Spiegel In German http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/

Israel: Jerusalem Post http://digitalisrael.yellowbrix.com/pages/digitalisrael/hi-tech.nsp

Japan: Japan Times http://www.japantimes.co.jp/techno.htm

PRC: Xinhua Wire Service http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/chinas.htm

PRC: Inside China Today http://www.insidechina.com/search/?category=116

South Korea: Korea Herald  http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/infotech/

Taiwan: The China Post http://www.chinapost.com.tw/technology/

UK: BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/default.stm

USA: New York Times  investigative reporting and writing set the standard for the world press, including the S&T topics. There are two separate sites for science and technology. Technology is at: http://www.nytimes.com/pages-technology/index.html

USA: IEEE Spectrum Online includes Reuters S&T News Summary http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/news/
 

Want more?  Here are some clearinghouses of the world's news sources.

Drudge Report  Matt Drudge is famous for breaking the Monica Lewinsky scandal at his irreverent website. What he will come up with next?  He doesn't specialize in S&T or anything else; his homepage has a comprehensive clearinghouse of websites for newspapers, wire services, and columnists.  http://www.drudgereport.com/

Newspapers of the World on the Internet  Want to catch up on the latest news in Phoenix or Phuket? Why not read their local newspaper on-line? This clearinghouse itself seems to come on a slow mail boat from some remote Spanish speaking country, but it's attractive when it does arrive. http://www.actualidad.com/

World Newspapers  http://worldnewspapers.miningco.com/newsissues/usnewspapers/mbody.htm

Cyber Newstand.  A similar list, but also has links to speciality publications.  A dozen links to S&T on-line publications, including the superb  Scientific American site ( http://www.sciam.com/ ), is at: http://www.broadcast-live.com/newspapers/technology.html

Associated Press Wire Service.  You can get the rest of the news at the same time as your newspaper's reporters at:  http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/index.htm

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Copyright © 2001 ITRI, Inc. Comments to rds@itri2.org please.
 

DATE	FEATURE ARTICLE	URL
Aug 98	Left Hand/Right Hand: NSF and NAS Both Assess US Math Research	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews1.htm
Sep 98	The Y1.998K Problem: Y2K Arrives 0.002K Early. Markets Crash, PMs Fired, Orioles 31 Games Behind	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews2.htm
Oct 98	Is S&T to Blame for the Asian Financial Crisis?	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews3.htm
Nov 98	NRC to State:  Ignoring S&T is Ignorant	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews4.htm
Dec 98/Jan 99	The Bottom Line: US Trade Deficit Skyrockets	http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews5.htm
Feb 99	Who's the Bear, and Who's the Bull? Japan Doubles R&D; The US Cuts It	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews6.html
Mar 99	Who's On First? (US, But Not for Long)	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews7.html
Apr 99	GPRA Metastasizes Abroad	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews8.html
May/Jun 99	Teraflops Computers Meet Gates' Law	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews9.html
July 99	More Good News / Bad News from the Academy	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews10.html
Aug 99	Rep. George Brown Adjourns	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews11.html
Sep 99	200GB Disk: 40 Films on One CD	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews12.html
Oct 99	Is International S&T Assessment Needed?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews13.html
Nov 99	Output in Papers: We're Number One?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews14.html
Dec 99 / Jan 00	New Technology Czar(ina)	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews15.html
Feb 00	S&T: Ready for Prime Time?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews16.html
Mar 00	Bottom Line II: Trade Deficit Skyrocket Explodes	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews17.html
Apr 00	Who's Getting U.S. Patents?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews18.html
May 00	Think That Government is Investing More in Research? Think Again.	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews19.html
Jun 00	American Leadership of S&T: Reality or Myth?	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews20.html
Jul 00	Science and Engineering Indicators 2000 Released by NSF	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews21.html
Aug 00	Pale Green Manufacturing: US is 3rd out of 3	http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews22.html
Aug 00 (Extra)	Americans Like Being No. 1 and Want to Keep It That Way	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews23.html
Sept 00	Industry Leads U.S. R&D	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews24.html
Oct 00	Gingrich Praises Clinton	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews25.html
Nov 00	Research Feasts: FY2001 Budgets	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews26.html
Dec 00	S&T Policy of the Bush Administration	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews27.html
Jan 01	Andreessen's Law for the Internet	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews28.html
Feb 01	Sherwood Boehlert: New Science Committee Chair	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews29.html
Mar 01	Research Famines: FY2002 S&T Budget for Bush Administration	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews30.html
Apr 01	As DotComs Wilt, Internet Sprouts	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N31.html
May 01	The Next Crash: R&D Budgets	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N32.html