Fiber-optic network is urged at conference
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The US Congress' failure to pass legislation that would provide $500 million over three years for the construction of a fiber-optics network prompted a reaction from academic researchers, scientists and business executives, who met in Seattle on Oct 30, 1990. The meeting came two days after Congress failed to pass a bill that would have provided funds for a high-speed network to link the nation's supercomputer centers. Industry experts complain that the US is losing its competitiveness because of barriers imposed on Bell operating companies that restricts them providing certain electronic information services. The telephone companies cannot justify the investment in building a fiber-optics network with current restrictions. Researchers maintain that the new fiber-optic network, which would carry voice and data communications for business and home, would facilitate a new economic productivity.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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U.S. supercomputer plan to spur G.N.P., study says
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A report prepared for the Department of Energy by the Gartner Group, a market research firm, indicates that a proposed $1.9 billion Federal program to develop supercomputer technologies would produce more than $10 billion for the US computer industry by the end of the 1990s. The economic impact of the program would cause an increase in the US' gross national product (GNP) by six-tenths of a percent to 1.7 percent in the year 2000. According to the report, supercomputers currently represent the 'leading edge' of information technology, influencing competitiveness in other industries. Congress is considering increased funding for supercomputers over a five-year period starting in 1992. Part of the funding would create a 'national data highway' linking the nation's supercomputers at speeds in excess of one billion bits of data per second.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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Congress unit assails U.S. information policy
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A report from the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment accuses the Federal Government of failing to make available to the public, large amounts of scientific data that could help the country's high-technology businesses. The report describes such information as the most important result of the $65 billion the US Government spends of research and development. The report urges the government to modernize its information storage and retrieval systems by implementing computerized data bases that are available to the public. The report also criticizes the President's Office of Science and Technology for failing to take the lead in this matter.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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