Welcoming New Assistant Project Scientist: Derek Lyons
By Bill Tomlinson
| This week a new Assistant Project Scientist named Derek Lyons is joining our research group. Derek and I worked together at MIT in the summer of 2001 on the AlphaWolf project. Since then, Derek has been busy, finishing up an M.Sc. at Oxford as part of his Rhodes Scholarship, going back to MIT for an S.M. at the Media Lab, doing his dissertation at Yale in Cognitive Psychology, and spending a year at Reed College (his undergraduate alma mater) as a Visiting Assistant Professor. For the next two years, we'll be working on an NSF-funded project titled "Narrative-Centered Computing for Childhood Environmental Computing." It's great to have him in the group!... |
R&D in the Proposed House Stimulus Package
By Jerry Sheehan
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science has released their first analysis of the proposed House Stimulus package. They write "The draft stimulus appropriations bill contains $13.3 billion in R&D funding, $9.9 billion for the conduct of research and development and $3.4 billion for R&D facilities and large research equipment, mostly extramural. Adding in another $2.5 billion in non-R&D but science and technology-related funding brings total science and technology-related funding in the stimulus to nearly $16 billion. There is also additional money for higher education construction and other education spending of interest to academia" |
08 Supplemental Funding Approved: Increases for NSF, NIH, DOE, NASA
By Jerry Sheehan
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"On June 26, the Senate approved the final version of the 2008 supplemental appropriations bill, which President Bush signed on June 30. As outlined in an analysis of the 2008 supplemental, the bill adds billions of dollars in defense development for 2008. The bill also provides $338 million in 2008 domestic science funding ($150 million for NIH, $62.5 million each for NSF, DOE Science, and NASA)."Work now begins on the FY09 Budget; a current status of FY09 appropriations is being updated daily by AAAS. ... |
FY08 Supplemental Funding for American R&D
By Jerry Sheehan
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