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Nearly a year ago, the Obama Administration announced a $500 million Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) to stimulate the development of new technologies to spur high-tech manufacturing. A key focus for the computing research community was a $70 million commitment to research in next-generation robotics.
But as we’ve noted previously, another important aspect of the AMP for computer science was the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), a multi-agency effort “to double the speed with which we discover, develop, and manufacture new materials.” At its core, the MGI sought to “fund computational tools, software, new methods for material characterization, and the development of open standards and databases that will make the process of discovery and development of advanced materials faster, less expensive, and more predictable.”
Today, as part of a daylong workshop attended by 170+ leaders from the public and private sectors, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has announced several new commitments to further advance the MGI.
Among them, according to an OSTP fact sheet accompanying the announcement (following the link):
» Read more: Administration Announces New Materials Genome Commitments
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