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Summary and Recommendations
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... the 1999 CSTB report Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research,1 written by both professional historians and computer scientists to ensure its objectivity, and (2) Making IT Better: Expanding Information Tech1Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council.
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... National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 4Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council.
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... · Research as a partnership · The success of the IT research enterprise reflects a complex partnership among government, industry, and universities (1-8~. · The federal government has had and will continue to have an essential role in sponsoring fundamental research in IT largely university-based because it does what industry does not and cannot do (1-8~.
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... · When companies create products using the ideas and workforce that result from federally sponsored research, they repay the nation in jobs, tax revenues, productivity increases, and world leadership (1,3,5~. The themes highlighted above underlie two recurring and overarching recommendations evident in the eight CSTB reports cited: Recommendation 1 The federal government should continue to boost funding levels for fundamental information technology research, commensurate with the growing scope of research challenges (2-4,6-8~.


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