Collection

2014 Public Policy Colloquium

Authors

Pramod Khargonekar, National Science Foundation

Tagged Divisions

National Science Foundation

 Education and Career Development  Interdisciplinary Research  Innovation Ecosystem 6Advanced Manufacturing Historically NSF has supported frontier research that has led to transformational advances in manufacturing  Additive manufacturing grew out, in part, from basic research investments in the 70’s and 80’s  MEMS enabled by fundamental research in late 80s (NSF & DARPA) Present research extends traditional advances and builds upon convergence of trans-disciplinary advances  National Robotics Initiative (NRI): towards autonomous systems  Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS