Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research 
"Expeditions in Computing awards" are ten million dollar NSF grants from the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering to pursue long-term research agendas. My favorite kinds of projects: high risk, high reward, and long term. Today the first four award winners have been announced. The winning programs are
- Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020
- The Molecular Programming Project
- Understanding, Coping with and Benefiting from Intractibility
- Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy and Society
Physical Science
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Yes, but what's the most efficient way to get there?
Posted by: Chad Orzel | August 18, 2008 9:20 PM
"Yes, but what's the most efficient way to get there?"
There isn't one; the problem is intractable.
P.S. It's 'intractability' and not 'intractibility.'
Posted by: Ian Durham | August 19, 2008 8:36 AM
"Yes, but what's the most efficient way to get there?"
There isn't one; the problem is intractable.
Of course there is a most efficient way to get there; the difficulty is identifying the route. Or more precisely: how to get there and visit your collaborators at umpteen other institutes all in the same trip.
Posted by: Eric Lund | August 19, 2008 9:48 AM
with videoconferencing you don't have to worry about getting there any more.
Posted by: Jon | August 19, 2008 3:47 PM