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·2016
The 2012 National Research Council report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology illustrates how fundamental research in information technology (IT), conducted at industry and universities, has led to the introduction of entirely new product categories that ultimately became billion-dollar...
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Description
An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a public workshop that would highlight additional examples of the impacts of computing research using the framework established in the “tiretracks” figure published in CSTB's 2012 report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology and explore further uses of the figure and framework. The committee will develop the agenda for the workshop, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. Invited technical leaders and researchers (primarily from industry) would use the framework to make presentations describing how academic and industry research has underpinned innovation in information technology with significant economic or other societal impact. Workshop participants would engage in discussions that build on these presentations to consider how the framework can be used to collect, display, and analyze what is known about the interplay between academic and industry research; the multi-directional flows of ideas, technologies, and people; and the impacts of research. To engage a wider range of experts than would be available on any given date, the in-person workshop event may be extended virtually through teleconferences in which several additional speakers would make presentations and they and participants would engage in discussion. A summary report will be prepared of the presentations and discussions at the workshop and would contain the examples presented by speakers (appended as signed papers).
Contributors
Staff
Jon Eisenberg
Lead
Major units and sub-units
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Lead
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
Lead