PLS 21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Desktop Publishing, Sound Card, Elementary Arithmetic
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Federal funding for research in computing has been managed by a set of agencies and offices that carry the legacies of the historical periods in which they were created. Crises such as ww2, korea, sputnik, vietnam, the oil shocks, and concerns over national competitiveness have all instigated new modes of government support: los alamos national laboratory, a leader in supercomputing, was created by the manhattan. Project and became part of the department of energy: the office of naval research and the national science foundation emerged in the wake of. World war 2 to continue the successful contributions of wartime science: the defense advanced research projects agency (darpa) and the national aeronautics and. Space administration (nasa) are products of the cold war, created in response to the launch of sputnik to regain the nation"s technological leadership: the national bureau of standards, an older agency, was transformed into the national.
