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Advances in technology and telecommunications have transformed the way in which people live, work, learn, communicate and conduct business. To insure that these transformations serve human needs, are productive for society, and sustainable over the long term, the National Science Foundation instituted the Information Technology Research (ITR) program as one of its priority areas. The initiative was designed to encourage and support innovative, high-payoff IT research and education. The program ran from 2000 through 2003 and is in its final year (2004).
In FY 2000, the ITR program stressed fundamental research in IT. In the second year, FY 2001, the program was considerably broadened to include applications of IT in all scientific, engineering and educational areas. In the third year, FY 2002, the program expanded research in areas of interdisciplinary science, focusing on research at the interstices of information technology and other disciplines. In its fourth year, FY 2003, the program was further expanded to stimulate research on challenges facing the continued expansion and utilization of IT across the sciences and engineering, the creation of novel uses of IT, the interaction of IT with society at large, and the use of IT to enhance security and reduce society's vulnerabilities to catastrophic events.
Cummings, J. N., & Kiesler, S. (2007). Coordination costs and project outcomes in multi-university collaborations. Research Policy, 36(10), 1620-1634. |
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