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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969893203321

Titolo

Continuing innovation in information technology / / Committee on Depicting Innovation in Information Technology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2012

ISBN

9780309259651

0309259657

9781283636056

1283636050

9780309259637

0309259630

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (43 p.)

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Information technology - Technological innovations

Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""The Impact of Information Technology""; ""Universities, Industry, and Government: A Complex Partnership Yielding Innovation and Leadership""; ""Key Lessons About the Nature of Research in Information Technology""; ""Looking Ahead""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix A: Short Biographies of Committee Members""; ""Appendix B: Transfers of Ideas and People and Impacts Since 2003 Added to Figure 1""; ""Appendix C: Examples of Impacts from Algorithms Research""

Sommario/riassunto

Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform, all aspects of our lives: commerce and finance, education, employment, energy, health care, manufacturing, government, national security, transportation, communications, entertainment, science, and engineering. IT and its impact on the U.S. economy-both directly (the IT sector itself) and indirectly (other sectors that are powered by advances in IT)-continue to grow in size and importance. In 1995, the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board



(CSTB) produced the report Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure. A graphic in that report, often called the "tire tracks" diagram because of its appearance, produced an extraordinary response by clearly linking government investments in academic and industry research to the ultimate creation of new information technology industries with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Used in presentations to Congress and executive branch decision makers and discussed broadly in the research and innovation policy communities, the tire tracks figure dispelled the assumption that the commercially successful IT industry is self-sufficient, underscoring through long incubation periods of years and even decades. The figure was updated in 2002, 2003, and 2009 reports produced by the CSTB. With the support of the National Science Foundation, CSTB updated the tire tracks figure. Continuing Innovation in Information Technology includes the updated figure and a brief text based in large part on prior CSTB reports.