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In This Issue of ITRInews
John Marburger to be Director of OSTP
Sega to Head DOD Research
Upson Bows out of Technology Administration
ITRI, Inc. Workshop on Telecommunications in HK, Taiwan, and PRC
Intel Announces World's Fastest Transistor; Extrapolates Moore's Law for Three More Generations
IBM Announces World's Fastest Transistor

Featured Organizations in International S&T:
Academies of Sciences and Engineering Around the World

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John Marburger to be OSTP Director The White House announced June 25 that the President intends to nominate John H. Marburger, III to Director of the "Office of Science and Technology."  The omission of the word "Policy" is probably a mistake, or is it?.  The press release also did not mention the OSTP Director's other title as a special assistant to the President, i. e. the "Presidential Science Advisor" role.  Earlier there were rumors that some candidates had turned down the job because it was to be downgraded. In any case, Dr. Marburger is currently the Director of the DOE Brookhaven National Laboratory.  He is on a leave of absence from SUNY Stony Brook where he served as President 1980-94, and as a University Professor of Physics and EE 1994-97.  Dr. Marburger was Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at USC 1976-80.  He is a graduate of Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.  His bio is at:  http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/Admin/marburger.html  The press release is at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010625-2.html

 

Sega to Head DOD Research The White House announced on June 7 that the President will nominate Dr. Ronald M. Sega to be Director of Defense Research and Engineering.  He has served since 1996 as Dean of  Engineering at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.  He is a Brigadier General with the USAF and was an astronaut during 1991-96, participating in two Space Shuttle missions.  Sega is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, received a MS from Ohio State and a Ph.D. in EE from the University of Colorado. A very impressive vita is posted at: http://www.spacecom.af.mil/hqafspc/library/bios/sega.htm

Setback at Technology Administration According to The Virginian-Pilot, Virginia secretary of technology Donald W. Upson has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position of undersecretary of the Department of Commerce.

ITRI, Inc. Workshop on Telecommunications in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and PRC Readers of ITRInews are invited to a FREE workshop on July 17 (9AM - 5PM) at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn, 1900 Ft. Myer Dr. Arlington VA.  The six-person ITRI, Inc. delegation that visited Hong Kong and Taiwan in early June was headed by Prof. Magdy Iskander. This study is an update of one that covered Japan and Western Europe in 2000 (http://itri.loyola.edu/wireless/)  We also expect five speakers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China.  The agenda is posted at:  http://itri2.org/telecom/AgendaSites.PDF. For more information, contact Galina Paikouch.  410.467.9978 mailto:paikouch@e-di.net

Intel Announces World's Fastest Transistor; Extrapolates Moore's Law for Three More Generations  At a conference June 10-11 in Kyoto, Intel reported Si transistors 70-80 atoms wide and 3 atoms thick. They can switch at 1.5 THz, making them the world's fastest Si transistors.  They are being hailed by the industry as a watershed because they were made using standard techniques and materials.  Thus researchers have once again found a way around technical barriers that might have slowed the progress modeled by Moore's Law: doubling of performance every 18 months for the last four decades. From John Markoff's article in the 6/10/01 New York Times  You need to subscribe to the on-line edition, but it's free.  http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/technology/10CHIP.html

IBM Announces World's Fastest Transistor   IBM said on June 25 that their device would  drive communications systems to speeds of 100 gigahertz within two years.  The transistor represents an 80 percent increase in performance at 210 GHz. It is based on an exotic Si manufacturing process, known as silicon germanium.

Which is fastest? Experts said the two chips are not directly comparable, but Intel reported it had built transistors that would make possible microprocessors that run at 20 GHz, and that commercial chips would be available in about seven years.  This NYT story is also by John Markoff. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/25/technology/25CHIP.html?todaysheadlines

Where are the Japanese in this race?  Ironically, when I read the Intel article, it was dominated by an attractive animated ad by Toshiba, which led to a list of their firsts through 1999, but mainly in memory chips.  http://www.toshiba.com/taec/main/milestones/

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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS THIS MONTH

This issue features academies of sciences and engineering in some of the developed nations.  The members of these societies are likely to be the most distinguished scientists in that country, or at least make up the scientific establishment.  In some countries like Russia, these academies manage many of the county's research institutes.  There are other societies in most of these countries, but I focused on those with websites in English.  My main source was the clearinghouse from the Scholarly Societies Project of the Library of the University of Waterloo in Canada.  http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/academies.html  Another helpful site is the Interacademy Panel on International Issues. http://www.interacademies.net/oia/iap/IAPacInfo.nsf/world+urls/worldurl

Canada
     Canadian Academy of Engineering -- http://www.acad-eng-gen.ca/
    Royal Society of Canada -- http://www.rsc.ca/

China
    Chinese Academy of Engineering -- http://www.cae.ac.cn/eindex.htm
    Chinese Academy of Science -- http://159.226.99.6/Englishversion/index.html This link doesn't actually work,
    which is a pity since this organization employs 60,000 S&T personnel!  You can see some info on the China link at
    http://www.interacademies.net/

France
    French Academy of Sciences --  http://www.academie-sciences.fr/uk/index.html

Germany
    Seven German states have academies, but there is no national one.  There is a Union of German Academies
     of Sciences and Humanities that provides some coordination. http://www.akademienunion.de/frmset.htm

Japan
     The Japan Academy -- http://www.japan-acad.go.jp/english/e_index.htm

Korea
     Korean Academy of Science and Technology -- http://www.kast.or.kr/frame2.html

Netherlands
     The Netherlands Society of Technological Science and Engineering -- http://www.nftw.nl/Intr1eng.htm

Russia
    The Russian Academy of Sciences is a shadow of its former self, but still a formidable shadow.
     I finally found an English version of part of the site at: http://isir.ras.ru/en/db/Home.asp?P=.oi-.vi-.fi-.uk-.pr-.id-.ln-en

Taiwan
     Academia Sinica -- http://www.sinica.edu.tw/index.html

USA
     National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering -- http://www.nas.edu/

UK
     The Royal Society -- http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/
     The Royal Institution -- http://www.ri.ac.uk/

Only a doctor? Ever envied that Academician title?  You, too, can be one. Most U.S. states have an academy of sciences, and membership is not all that difficult to achieve. A clearinghouse of 40 of the a state academies is at: http://www.acadsci.com/journals.htm
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Copyright © 2001 ITRI, Inc. Comments to rds@itri2.org please.
 

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