1. Source: Dan Reed, CRA Board Chair, Snowbird 2006 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

2.  The value and importance of a coherent industry- academia message and associated agenda  The value and importance of a coordinated approach to the investment of federal and state government funds

3. Meeting The Technical Challenges Of The Future Dan Mote President University of Maryland Craig Mundie Chief Research and Strategy Officer Microsoft Corporation Richard Newton Dean of the College of Engineering University of California, Berkeley Richard M. Russell Associate Director Office of Science and Technology Policy Executive Office of the President Lucy Sanders CEO National Center for Women and Information Technology

5.  Research  Commitment to double NSF, DoE SC, NIST over 10 years  Make permanent the R&D tax credit  Education  70,000 new teachers, alternative teacher certification, bolster AP, improve participation in math and science  Workforce/Immigration  Expand worker training programs  Flexible H-1B caps, reform visa issues

8. Source: Dan Reed, CRA Board Chair, Snowbird 2006

9.  Are we better off organizing our efforts around “input” goals or “output” goals, or is there a balance?  Input: “We will double the amount of long-term R&D funding for Field X over 10 years.”  Output: “We will eliminate our dependence on foreign oil and establish the basis for a carbon- neutral economy by 2025.”  E.g. The Advanced Energy Initiative

10. “… will create the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), a proxy organization for the computing research community, operating under the leadership of the Computing Research Association (CRA), a membership organization representing over 250 computing research entities in academia, industry and government. … The CCC will facilitate research vision setting by the computing research community and catalyze community thinking regarding major initiatives pursuing audacious research goals, and communicate those visions and goals to the broader national community.”

11.  Computing Community Consortium (CCC), will be a “community vehicle” for establishing a visionary research agenda  CCC will not establish the agenda, it will establish mechanisms by which the computer science community establishes an agenda  Similar organizations exist in fields such as physics and astronomy  Although CCC’s activities will be supported by NSF, CCC will serve the field as a whole and multiple research agencies, not just NSF

13.  How do we ensure that this renewed interest in funding for long- term research is sustained?  Our political system has ADD and a “double in 10 years” approach is likely not viable  Grand-challenge problem focus versus funding for field focus  How do we ensure that some funding is truly directed and sustained towards ‘radical research’?  In the face of a peer-review process  In the face of inevitable budget pressure  What steps must we take as a community to most effectively develop the public-private partnerships needed to achieve sustained investment in SMET education and research?  Private/state matching programs to federal/state dollars  State tax incentives for private investment  Private/academic closely coordinated priorities and lobbying

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