It takes up more room than the actual article itself. Want to introduce the subject of this next session which is this booklet here. Its called transform which is very beautiful and its about an initiative that we were privileged to fund called exploring innovation frontier. I want to give a shout out to promote the head of our engineering director at the time a few years ago when we made the decision to fund this. He has gone on to uc irvine where he is a vice chancellor for research. During this time there have been several workshops around the country and ill say a few words about that and then you will hear from two of the people that were greatly involved in those workshops more about this. Let me make now that ive kind of introduced the subject of basic research, leading to innovation and leading to engineering applications, let me make some formal remarks. I will just begin with the quote from our inspiration of the National Science foundation who believed that there must be a s
Purpose of an introduction. Thank you, mr. Chairman. If it pleases the committee i would like to first of all disclose that sometime around 11 00 oclock i have to depart early for a previously scheduled meeting but i do want to take just a moment to recognize a young lady in the audience today in each one of my colleagues have been provided a nice glossy bio of this young lady for the benefit of the rest of the audience and for hearing purposes to recognize mary would form an now she is in the back [applause] mary is a freshman at the university of arkansas. [applause] we dont have to holler sue here and we dont have to call the hawks today but given our record in sec right now we probably shouldnt be calling the logs right now but that said the information provided to each of my colleagues so states this is a very special young lady doing very well in her College Studies at the university of arkansas and while she is not on the dais today and not one of the people testifying she has j
Its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk, high reward investment is all about. So if that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome, a lot of people as you might guess came and went. And it involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity for computers so thats new in the first gravitational wave was detected. And what the source was, that was two colliding black holes that were in a postbinary system. The most recent gravitational wave detection to neutron stars emerging. So its, but it was a very long tail. There are many many directors, many and its a Program Officers involved National Science board, they changed over large number of times during that interval and had to improve all the funding and that of Course Congress of course was the ultimate arbiter of appropriations and making the decision to continue an investment but nobody was quite sure what would have a result so how risky is
Which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the communicators visited bell labs. The labs were created by at t they are owned by nokia, we president bell labs marc Marcus Weldon at the labs in new jersey. So where are we . Were at bell labs. Historical institution, we like to think very relevant to the future as thats institution invented just about every imagine y that you can that underpins the internet. In every silicon chip linux, your apple hone, lasers that do all the optics, Long Distance communications, satellite communication, we invented all bunch of d won a prizes but we consider ourselves internet. Ation of the in 2017, who owns bell labs . Company called nokia. That company you probably all 3310, do you remember the leg nokia phone . T was sort of a wedge, very popular with everyone, probably the first phone if you lived 20 r 30 years ago that company evolved. It got out of the handset business which it can sold to microsoft. Then microsof
Michael eagle sten. What is it that you do here . Background . Our physicsackground is and devices. U. C. Berkeley and a p. H. D. Iowa stateat university. I am from minnesota originally. Are here at bell labs nu and working again on . Sensors. G on optical which is what . Anything sore maybe familiar with cameras. They are twodimensional imagings. 3d opticalng on imaging technique similar to radar. Light. E arent those in practical use today already . Yes. These. Re uses of one of them is in the medical technique called top graphy and you can use it eye,00 d imaging in the for example. You can get a scaled entireion of the eyeball all come notly nonevasive just the lights. Yes they are more and more common. So what is your research doing . Well, what i am working on system andn entire shrinking it down to the size of a chip. Integrate the phones in the ture. Future. Then allow us not to monitor ourselves but the land around and three dimensions. How far away are we from that type of te