| ITRInews | June 2002, No. 44 |
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In This Issue of ITRInews
U.S. Raises Stakes in Supercomputer Game; To Build
100 TF Machine
Japan Raises that Raise to 400TF
U.S.-Japan JOP Project Ends
New U.S. Government Methods for Evaluation of Research
Bush Administration Priorities for S&T in 2003
China Becoming a Net Importer of International Students
New WTEC Study of Hybrid Manufacturing
Featured Organizations in International S&T:
China S&T Digest
Tokyo Tri-Service Technology Watching Site
Clearinghouse on Specialized Search Engines on S&T--Continued
(Biology)
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U.S. Raises Stakes in Supercomputer
Game; To Build 100 TF Machine The government awarded
IBM a $224.4 million contract on May 31 to build a machine to reach a theoretical
speed of more than 100 trillion floating point operations per second (TF)
by 2009. It will be used to increase the accuracy of forecasts of
weather, floods and ocean conditions by the National Weather Service. The
award comes just a month after the Japanese government completed the world's
fastest supercomputer, an achievement at that took many U.S. computing
experts by surprise with a theoretical rate of 40TF [the email version
of ITRInews said 50TF by mistake] and an achieved rate of
36TF. The Japanese machine was built to analyze climate change, including
global warming as well as weather and earthquake patterns. This "Earth
Simulator" was built by NEC for about $400 million.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/01/technology/01SUPE.html?todaysheadlines
Japan Raises that Raise MEXT (the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology) has decided to develop a "Grid Computer" which will be 10 times faster than the current world's fastest super computer [400TF?]. As the speed is limited if it is by only one super computer, they will connect some super computers and personal computers by optical technologies. Minister Toyama will report the plan to the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy on May 30. (Summary translation by NSF/Tokyo of an article on Nihon Keizai Shimbun - 5/30/02) http://www.arofe.army.mil/AROindex.htm Good luck trying to find these reports at the NSF site. Use the ARO link above and click on "NSF S&T Highlights.".)
U.S.-Japan JOP Project Ends In 1992, the United States and Japan launched the Joint Optoelectronics Project to improve the availability of novel prototype optoelectronic devices. Single copies of the final report are available free from NIST inquiries@nist.gov. http://www.oida.org/JOP/
New U.S. Government Methods for Evaluation of Research Last fall the Administration announced its intention to develop evaluation investment criteria for applied and basic research. Last year, OMB made initial efforts to apply an evaluation methodology to several DOE programs and is moving ahead on the broad application of evaluation criteria. In May 29 it announced formation of a Performance Measurement Advisory Council. OMB will establish a six-member panel of experts which will make recommendations on the measures and benchmarking systems that agencies can employ to track program performance. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budintegration/pmac_index.html
Bush Administration Priorities for S&T The OSTP / OMB FY2004 budget guidelines give priority to:
China Becoming a Net Importer of International
Students More than 50,000 foreign students came to study in
China in 2001, bringing the total number of foreign students in the country
to 350,000. Ministry of Education officials said. For the first time,
the number of foreign students in China nearly equaled the number of Chinese
studying abroad. China currently has more than 360 universities which accept
foreign students. Students come from Asia and Africa, as well as Europe
and America. They major in some 200 specialties. From the NSF Monthly
S&T highlights for China (2/19/02)
http://www.arofe.army.mil/AROindex.htm
Use the ARO link above and click on "NSF S&T Highlights."
New WTEC Study of Additive/Subtractive Manufacturing On June 3 WTEC organized a study of advanced manufacturing techniques, based on additive approaches like Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) and subtractive approaches such as milling, to provide complex working parts directly from CAD files. Professor Fritz Prinz of Stanford will chair the panel, which will travel abroad to leading labs in late 2002. http://www.wtec.org/hybridmfg/
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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS THIS MONTH
ATIP China S&T News Digest
The Asian Technology Information Program provides a free e-letter
on Chinese S&T. The latest issue is at http://www.atip.org/CHINANEWS/newsfeed/20020601.pdf
Tokyo Tri-Service Technology Watching Site The U. S. Army, Navy, and Air Force now share a web site in Tokyo as well as physical space. https://www.trisvc.navy.mil/index.html
Clearinghouse on Specialized Search Engines on S&T--Continued (Biology) Here are a few more specialized search engines on biology from http://invisibleweb.com ( the "search engine for search engines"), http://www.searchengineguide.com, and in the subject tree of sites like http://www.yahoo.com .
Biocrawler A biological search engine that will help you find a vast amount of electronic resources on life sciences from anthropology to zoology. This site is mostly in German. http://www.biologie.de/?language=e&class=bio&scheme=default&kid=116
BioLinks Users may search all of the databases with a simple keyword query or focus on specific ones: the indexed database or the spidered database. In return, he or she will access Web sites, online databases, e-journals, FTP and other electronic resources pertaining to life sciences and medicine in both academic and commercial arenas. http://www.biolinks.com/search.html
BioSites. A large clearinghouse of biology sites from the National Library of Medicine, with a search engine that spans these sites http://www.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/
BioNotebook A searchable list of links for biology from France, but in English. http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/BNB/bnb-en.html
Human Pathology The Lightning Hypertext of Disease is a free web site, as well as a commercial web-subscription service. http://www.pathinfo.com/
Medline Search 80 million records of heath care research. http://medline.cos.com/adhocframe.shtml
World Data Center for Microorganisms http://wdcm.nig.ac.jp/
Biomedical Engineering Network includes a search engine of this field. http://www.bmenet.org/BMEnet/
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| DATE | FEATURE ARTICLE | URL |
| Jun 02 | U.S. Raises the Stakes in the Supercomputer Game | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N44.html |
| May 02 | Double-Double in U.S. S&T Investments | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N43.html |
| Apr 02 | Japanese Lap the U.S. in the Supercomputer Race | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N42.html |
| Mar 02 | Criteria for Basic Research Performance | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N41.html |
| Feb 02 | Internet Growth Slows | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N40.html |
| Dec 01 /Jan 02 | Japan Ups S&T Paper Quality and Quantity as U. S. Declines | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N39.html |
| Nov 01 | Marburger Shakes Up OSTP | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N38.html |
| Oct 01 | Impact of Terrorism on R&D | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N37.html |
| Sep 01 | US Technologies Lead;
US Technologists Lag |
http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N36.html |
| Aug 01 | Doctors of Economic Warfare | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N35.html |
| Jul 01 | Marburger to be OSTP Director | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N34.html |
| Jun 01 | Nano is Huge, and Getting Bigger | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N33.html |
| May 01 | R&D Budget Crash | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N32.html |
| Apr 01 | As DotComs Wilt, Internet Sprouts | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/N31.html |
| Mar 01 | Research Famines: FY2002 Budgets | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews30.html |
| Feb 01 | Sherwood Boehlert:
New Science Committee Chair |
http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews29.html |
| Jan 01 | Andreessen's Law for the Internet | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews28.html |
| Dec 00 | S&T Policy of the Bush Administration | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews27.html |
| Nov 00 | Research Feasts: FY2001 Budgets | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews26.html |
| Oct 00 | Gingrich Praises Clinton | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews25.html |
| Sep 00 | Industry Leads U.S. R&D | http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews24.html |
| Aug 00
(Extra) |
Americans Like Being No. 1
and Want to Keep It That Way |
http://itri2.org/ITRInews/ITRInews23.html |
| Aug 00 | Pale Green Manufacturing:
US is 3rd out of 3 |
http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews22.html |
| Jul 00 | Science and Engineering Indicators 2000 Released by NSF | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews21.html |
| Jun 00 | American Leadership of S&T: Reality or Myth? | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews20.html |
| May 00 | Think That Government is Investing More in Research? Think Again. | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews19.html |
| Apr 00 | Who's Getting U.S. Patents? | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews18.html |
| Mar 00 | Bottom Line II: Trade Deficit Skyrocket Explodes | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews17.html |
| Feb 00 | S&T: Ready for Prime Time? | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews16.htm l |
| Jan 00 /
Dec 99 |
New Technology Czar(ina) | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews15.html |
| Nov 99 | Output in Papers: We're Number One? | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews14.html |
| Oct 99 | Is International S&T Assessment Needed? | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews13.html |
| Sep 99 | 200GB Disk: 40 Films on One CD | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews12.html |
| Aug 99 | Rep. George Brown Adjourns | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews11.html |
| Jul 99 | More Good News / Bad News
from the Academy |
http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews10.html |
| Jun 99 /
May 99 |
Teraflops Computers Meet Gates' Law | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews9.html |
| Apr 99 | GPRA Metastasizes Abroad | http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews8.html |
| Mar 99 | Who's On First?
(US, But Not for Long) |
http://justice.loyola.edu/~rds/ITRInews7.html |
| 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 |
| Jan 99 /
Dec 98 |
The Bottom Line:
US Trade Deficit Skyrockets |
http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews5.htm |
| Nov 98 | NRC to State:
Ignoring S&T is Ignorant |
http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews4.htm |
| Oct 98 | Is S&T to Blame for the Asian Financial Crisis? | http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews3.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 |
| Aug 98 | Left Hand/Right Hand: NSF and NAS Both Assess US Math Research | http://itri.loyola.edu/NEWS/ITRInews1.htm |