2005-04-18

alexr_rwx: (looking home)
2005-04-18 02:12 pm

doin' my dance

Paraphrase of a recent discussion:

[livejournal.com profile] 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...
[livejournal.com profile] 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.