Scope and Contents From the Series: The High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 authorizes "an advisory committee on high-performance computing consisting of non-Federal members, including representatives from the research, education, and library communities, network providers, and industry, who are specially qualified to advise the Director [of OSTP] with advice and information on high-performance computing." It was to provide an independent assessment of Program progress, need for revision, balance among Program components,...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Reports, meeting minutes, photographs, and speeches collected by John F. Fulton document military and aviation physiological studies solely related the Yale Aeromedical Research Unit (1940-1951) and from Fulton's membership on the National Research Council's (NRC) Division of Medical Sciences from 1942 to 1945. The NRC, established in 1916, provided independent advice, often to the U.S. Government, on scientific and medical problems. These papers mostly represent data collected from various...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, photographs, diaries, research materials, reports, writings, drafts, and audiovisual materials (1910-2002; 62.5 linear feet) document the semi-official portion of Donald S. Fredrickson's professional career as a leading biomedical administrator and policy maker. Beginning with his clinical laboratory career at the National Heart Institute, Fredrickson spent over 28 years at NIH, culminating in 1975-1981 when he was Institute Director. During the course of his career,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: About 20 items.Topics include activities at supercomputer centers (scientific computing, computational science, visualization), "Safe Computing", "Intellectual Property Issues in Software", NREN, "High-Performance Computing for Science", DOE HPCC program, Japan, telecommunications policy, Europe, K-12 math and science education, cyberspace.Publishers include Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government; Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning; CSTB/NRC;...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, laboratory and patient research data, clinical trial proposal development and IRB review records, meetings and conferences files, presentations, and videotapes document French Anderson's groundbreaking work to develop procedures for and to perform the first therapeutic introduction of gene therapy in humans. The collection concentrates almost exclusively on Anderson's tenure at the Molecular Hematology Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and in...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, laboratory and patient research data, clinical trial proposal development and IRB review records, meetings and conferences files, presentations, and videotapes document French Anderson's groundbreaking work to develop procedures for and to perform the first therapeutic introduction of gene therapy in humans. The collection concentrates almost exclusively on Anderson's tenure at the Molecular Hematology Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and in...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Topics include supercomputers and supercomputer programs, establishing an HPCC Program (the first bill was introduced in 1988 and the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, Public Law 102-194, was signed into law on December 9, 1991), the HPCC Program and its successors, basic research, competitiveness, Information Infrastructure and Technology (a successor bill to the HPC Act), telecommunications, NSFNET, access to Government information, computer security, health care applications,...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Correspondence, subject files, journals, photographs, maps, awards, and electronic media document the wide and varied scientific and ethnological career of Carleton Gajdusek. Gajdusek's multi-disciplinary interests make the collection extremely diverse and appealing to researchers in several disciplines including anthropology, biology, ethnology, geography, linguistics, medicine, primitive arts, and psychology. The bulk of the collection is contained in Series 2: Correspondence, Series 3:...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Topics include supercomputers and supercomputer programs, establishing an HPCC Program (the first bill was introduced in 1988 and the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, Public Law 102-194, was signed into law on December 9, 1991), the HPCC Program and its successors, basic research, competitiveness, Information Infrastructure and Technology (a successor bill to the HPC Act), telecommunications, NSFNET, access to Government information, computer security, health care applications,...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Topics include supercomputers and supercomputer programs, establishing an HPCC Program (the first bill was introduced in 1988 and the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, Public Law 102-194, was signed into law on December 9, 1991), the HPCC Program and its successors, basic research, competitiveness, Information Infrastructure and Technology (a successor bill to the HPC Act), telecommunications, NSFNET, access to Government information, computer security, health care applications,...