IP: Public Briefing on Harnessing Science and Technology for America 's Economic Future

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>
>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:53:41 -0400
>Subject: Public Briefing on Harnessing Science and Technology for America
>         's Economic Future
>
>June 22, 1999
>
>Dear Colleague:
>
>On behalf of the Office of Special Projects of the National Research Council, I
>would like to invite you to a public briefing to mark the release of a new
>report entitled Harnessing Science and Technology for America's Economic Future.
>The public briefing will be held 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on July 14, 1999
>(Wednesday) in the Lecture Room of the National Academy of Sciences Building at
>2100 C St., NW, Washington, DC.  The co-chairs of the steering committee that
>prepared the report, former Governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. Attorney General
>Dick Thornburgh and SEMATECH Chairman Bill Spencer, will lead the discussion.
>The full steering committee roster is attached.
>
>The report examines how the United States can better utilize new science and
>technology to improve economic performance over the next 10-20 years.  The
>steering committee headed by Thornburgh and Spencer developed long-term national
>goals and specific action items in areas such as increasing S&T investments and
>improving education.  The report also contains papers and presentations from an
>NRC forum event held in 1998.  The activity is supported by the Carnegie
>Corporation of New York.
>
>Copies of the report will be available at the public briefing.  If you plan to
>attend, please contact Marion Ramsey (tel 202/334-2424; email mramsey@nas.edu)
>and feel free to pass the announcement along to colleagues who might be
>interested.
>
>Reporters should contact Barbara Rice in the Office of News and Public
>Information (tel 202/334-2138; email news@national-academies.org).
>
>We look forward to seeing you July 14.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Deborah Stine
>Director, Office of Special Projects
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>COMMITTEE ON HARNESSING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR AMERICA'S ECONOMIC FUTURE
>
>Dick Thornburgh (Co-chair), Counsel, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, Washington.
>D.C.
>William J. Spencer (Co-chair), Chairman, SEMATECH, Austin, Texas
>Dennis W. Archer, Mayor, City of Detroit
>Richard C. Atkinson, President, University of California System, Oakland
>Dorothy Baunach, Deputy Director, Cleveland Tomorrow
>Charles M. Geschke, President, Adobe Systems, San Jose, California
>Mary L. Good, Managing Member, Venture Capital, Little Rock, Arkansas
>Phillip A. Griffiths, Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New
>Jersey
>Harold Shapiro, President, Princeton University
>John F. Shoch, General Partner, Asset Management Associates, Palo Alto,
>California
>H. Guyford Stever, Adviser and Consultant, Gaithersburg, Maryland
>
>
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