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doin' my dance
Apr. 18th, 2005 02:12 pmParaphrase of a recent discussion:
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oniugnip: ... you're doing fun and beautiful things. Diagrammatic reasoning is exciting. Can you make them waive my tuition?
ashok: Funny thing about that... I don't have any grants because Washington is cutting most funding for CS research. NSF is only approving about one in fifty of the proposed proposals these days...
oniugnip: Oh my god.
... what are we doing, as a nation? I think the thing that keeps my libertarian-small-government leanings in check is the idea that private companies aren't going to fund science just for the sake of advancement-of-knowledge. Somebody's got to do it.
So in the meantime, I'm asking around -- I've heard that it's conceivable that Ron Ferguson and Nancy Nercessian and Janet Kolodner have funding for students -- the latter looks like the most fun, so I emailed her first.
oniugnip: ... you're doing fun and beautiful things. Diagrammatic reasoning is exciting. Can you make them waive my tuition?ashok: Funny thing about that... I don't have any grants because Washington is cutting most funding for CS research. NSF is only approving about one in fifty of the proposed proposals these days...
oniugnip: Oh my god.... what are we doing, as a nation? I think the thing that keeps my libertarian-small-government leanings in check is the idea that private companies aren't going to fund science just for the sake of advancement-of-knowledge. Somebody's got to do it.
So in the meantime, I'm asking around -- I've heard that it's conceivable that Ron Ferguson and Nancy Nercessian and Janet Kolodner have funding for students -- the latter looks like the most fun, so I emailed her first.
