Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Archive for April 27th, 2009

 

“Unleashing Waves of Innovation”

April 27th, 2009 / in policy / by Ed Lazowska

After leading the world in telecommunications research innovations, the United States now trails several dozen other nations in the availability of broadband to consumers.  The Obama administration’s broadband stimulus initiative represents an extraordinary opportunity to re-gain the lead. The Computing Community Consortium, working with a remarkable coalition of all the major groups involved in cyberinfrastructure for research and education, has been weighing in heavily on broadband strategy.  This week, the Chronicle of Higher Education featured this group’s position paper, “Unleashing Waves of Innovation.” Our basic messages – consistent with the position advocated by Microsoft and others: Use an aggressive definition of broadband – 100 mbps – in order to be […]