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R. D. Shelton, Editor:  rds@itri2.org
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In This Issue of ITRInews
Doctors of Economic Warfare
Has the 'Net Stopped Growing?
ITRI Workshop on Telecommunications in Asia (2nd Notice)
Shortfall in Federal R&D Investment

Featured Organizations in International S&T:
Some S&T Clearinghouses

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Doctors of Economic Warfare. France's equivalent of the CIA, the DST, is educating French firms to foreign industrial espionage, which is said to cost French industry over $1 billion in contracts. Experts are worried by French industrial insouciance on the matter, but wakeup calls are sounding, such as when the CIA and the NSA abruptly turned away European Parliament members from a scheduled tour of the Echelon listening system. The director of the School of Economic Warfare, which each year turns out 20 doctorates in the field of economic intelligence [!!!], laments the lack of French strategic policy in the field.  (L'Expansion, June 21, p10, Laure Dumont) From FAST by the Embassy of France in DC. http://www.france-science.org/english/ I actually found an article in English on this School of Economic Warfare (Ecole de guerre economique)  http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199911/msg00162.html  ITRInews Puzzler: Can you deduce whether France is Country A, B, or C in the unclassified version of 1996 GAO report on economic espionage by allies? http://nsi.org/Library/Espionage/allies.txt

Has the 'Net Stopped Growing?  Some industry leaders are blaming their recent poor financial performance by claiming that Internet growth has slowed.  Determining how much traffic traverses the Net is not so easy. After all, incredible hype on growth rates were spread by media outlets. Most reasonable observers now think Internet traffic was doubling every 10 to 14 months at its peak.  By Jason Krause TheStandard.com http://www.nytimes.com/thestandard/standard_27394.html

One simple approach to estimate growth of the Net is to count domain names in use -- this metric has doubled every 18 months for at least 5 years.  The January ITRInews gave the links with the data; the semi-annual measurement for June 2001 will be posted soon, and we'll if growth has slowed..  http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews28.html   I doubt it; I believe that the dotcom and dotnet problems are a just a classical burst of a bubble of speculation. Such bubbles do not require IT to blossom; the Dutch managed a speculative bubble in tulips in 1637. For a like-minded site see: http://www.itulip.com/

ITRI Asian Telecommunications Workshop (2nd Notice) 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 six 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

Shortfall in Federal R&D Investment  The latest issue of Research Technology Management, published by the Industrial Research Institute, Inc. (IRI) contains an article by ASTRA Chairman Dr. Mary Good detailing the funding shortfall in federal R&D investment in the physical sciences, engineering and mathematics and its consequences for our economy, the U.S. workforce, our national security, and U.S. global competitiveness. good.pdf  ASTRA is the Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America, a coalition lobbying for an appropriate level of R&D funding. mailto:r_boege@acs.org
 

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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS THIS MONTH

Clearinghouses of S&T Information.  My sources were general search engines, the About.com page on S&T http://websearch.about.com/cs/science/index.htm?iam=dpile&terms=%2BWeb+%2Blinks+%2Bon+%2Bscience and the unique Argus Clearinghouse of Clearinghouses, which compiles and rates clearinghouses. http://www.clearinghouse.net/ .

Telecommunications Compiled by Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University of Michigan, 8000+ links. Rated among top 5% of sites by Lycos.
 http://www.clearinghouse.net/cgi-bin/chadmin/viewcat/Engineering/telecommunications/telecommunications__general_?kywd++

Physics Physlink is a general physics site.  I was impressed by the page that lists over 2000 academic departments of physics worldwide (674 of them in the USA).  http://www.physlink.com/departments.cfm

Science News on the Internet  A clearinghouse of sites that post general S&T news.  http://www.libs.uga.edu/science/curevent.html

ScienceMaster a nice site on S&T for young people.  http://www.sciencemaster.com/

Mathematical Atlas gateway to modern math. http://www.math-atlas.org/

Computer Science with a list of academic CS departments worldwide.  http://library.albany.edu/subject/csci.htm

MEMS http://mems.isi.edu/

General S&T  http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sci-eng/current/index.html

Rapid Prototyping, Additive Manufacturing http://www.cc.utah.edu/~asn8200/rapid.html

Distance Education  http://www.uwex.edu/disted/

Community of Science a portal for scientists with funding sources, etc.  http://www.cos.com/

Scirus The first comprehensive S&T Search Engine from Elsevier, announced in April 2001. http://www.scirus.com
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Copyright © 2001 ITRI, Inc. Comments to rds@itri2.org please.
 

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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 Budgets	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews30.html
Apr 01	As DotComs Wilt, Internet Sprouts	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N31.html
May 01	R&D Budget Crash	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N32.html
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Aug 01	Doctors of Economic Warfare	http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N35.html