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To: Rambi who wrote (36032)	3/22/2004 10:47:02 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793868

"It's an open question where the next big ideas and discoveries will come from," They will come from a person with a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain.

To: Rambi who wrote (36032)	3/22/2004 3:03:33 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793868

While turmoil at AT&T Labs is a bonanza for places like Columbia University and the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, scientists say it underscores the decline of "blue-sky" research -- science for science's sake -- at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, IBM, General Electric and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. That suggests that the work isn't being done elsewhere, and I just don't think that's true. It is true that growth in federal research has shifted from engineering and communication to life sciences, energy production, and computer sciences. nsf.gov However, federal funding for R&D continues to grow. nsf.gov