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Below is the 2008
Forum program, and links to speaker presentations and news coverage. This page
will be updated as more presentations and articles become available. Mp3 Podcasts
of most presentations are available; right-click the "mp3" links to
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2008 Program:
Click
here for a AAAS News story summarizing the Forum. BUDGETARY AND POLICY
CONTEXT FOR R&D IN FY 2009 (Plenary Session)
Welcome: James McCarthy,
President, AAAS (mp3)
Keynote
Address: John H. Marburger, III, Director, White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy (PDF slides from talk) (mp3)
- (Q&A mp3)
- Text
of prepared remarks (PDF)
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AAAS
Analysis of Federal Budget Proposals for R&D in FY 2009 (PDF) Kei Koizumi,
Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program, AAAS (mp3)
- (Q&A mp3) WHAT KIND OF WORLD WILL
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACE - AND HELP CREATE - IN THE 21st CENTURY? A PANEL DISCUSSION
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here for AAAS News coverage of this session James
Canton, CEO and Chairman, Institute for Global Futures (PDF) - (mp3) Melinda
Kimble, Senior Vice President, United Nations Foundation (PDF) - (mp3) "The
Post-Scientific Society" (link to original article) Christopher T. Hill,
Professor of Public Policy and Technology, George Mason University - (mp3) (panel
Q&A - mp3) Luncheon
Introduction
from Ross Armbrecht - (mp3)
Address:
John Kao, Founder, Kao & Company; author, Innovation
Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and How We
Can Get It Back (link to book web site) - (mp3) MAJOR
ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY (Concurrent
Sessions) (A) Human
Enhancement: Promise and/or Threat?
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Moderator, David Rejeski -
(mp3) An
Overview of Key Issues in Human Enhancement Efforts (PDF) Thomas H. Murray,
President, The Hastings Center - (mp3) Sports
Applications (PDF)
Theodore Friedmann, Professor of Pediatrics, School
of Medicine, University of California, San Diego - (mp3) Military
Applications (PDF)
John A. Parmentola, Director, Research and Laboratory
Management, U. S. Army - (mp3) Age
Extension (PDF)
S. Jay Olshansky, Professor, School of Public Health,
University of Illinois, Chicago - (mp3) Cognitive
Enhancement (PDF)
Martha J. Farah, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural
Sciences; Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
- (mp3) (B) New Models for
Funding Research and Innovation
Donna J. Dean, Moderator - (mp3)
Transformative Research
John C. Crowley, Consultant, American Academy
of Arts and Sciences - (mp3)
Prizes for Research and Engineering Achievements (PDF)
Stephen A. Merrill, Executive Director, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic
Policy, The National Academies - (mp3)
Foundations' New Directions (PDF)
Susan M.
Fitzpatrick, Vice President, The James S. McDonnell Foundation; and Member, AAAS
Board of Directors - (mp3)
Donna
J. Dean, Moderator - (mp3)
State and Local Support for R&D (PDF)
Dan
Berglund, President and CEO, State Science and Technology Institute - (mp3)
Support for S&T-Based Start-Up Ventures (PDF)
Ravi Kapur, President, Anudeza Consulting Group; and Entrepreneur-in-Residence,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA - (mp3) Q&A
for the session - (mp3) (C)
Advocacy in Science: Models for the Future
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Moderator: Joseph G. Perpich
- (mp3) An
Overview of Key Issues in Advocacy (PDF of text)
Ruth M. Krulfeld, Professor
Emeritus of Anthropology, International Affairs, Human Sciences, The George Washington
University; and Member, AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
- (mp3) A Skeptical
View of Advocacy by Scientists
Catherine Rudder, Professor of Public Policy,
George Mason University - (mp3) The
Choice of Strategy and Tactics In Science Advocacy (PDF) Francis Slakey, Director,
Washington Office, American Physical Society; and Co-Director, Program on Science
in the Public Interest, and Upjohn Lecturer in Physics and Biology, Georgetown
University - (mp3) (Q&A
- mp3) Some
Advocacy Lessons Learned: A Work in Progress (PDF) Mary Woolley, President,
Research!America - (mp3) (Q&A
- mp3) How
Does Science Advocacy Look From the Other Side? (PDF of text) Dahlia Sokolov,
Professional Staff Member, Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, Committee
on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives - (mp3) Q&A
for the session - (mp3)
The William D. Carey Lecture (public invited)
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Introduction; Alan I. Leshner,
CEO, AAAS - (mp3) Address:
"Changing Patterns of Research and Innovation in a Networked World"
Lewis M. Branscomb, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Corporate Management,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and Adjunct Professor, School
of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San
Diego - (mp3)
Friday, May 9 Breakfast Address:
Vaughan Turekian, Moderator,
AAAS - (mp3)
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"Energy, Security,
and the Long War of the 21st Century" R. James Woolsey, Of Counsel, Goodwin
Procter LLP; and Senior Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. - (mp3)
(Q&A - mp3) SCIENCE
& TECHNOLOGY, THE 2008 ELECTION, AND BEYOND (Plenary Session)
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Claudia Dreifus, Moderator
- (mp3) The
Fiscal Challenges Facing the Next Administration and Congress (PDF) Peter
R. Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office - (mp3)
(Q&A - mp3) Major
Science and Technology-Related Issues Facing the Next Administration (PDF)
Gilbert
S. Omenn, Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health, University
of Michigan - (mp3) (Q&A
- mp3) Industry's
Advocacy for Science and Technology Policy Issues Robert C. Cresanti - (mp3)
(Q&A - mp3)
Presidential Transitions and Science & Technology Matters Ernest J. Moniz,
Professor of Physics, and Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology - (mp3)
Ensuring the Best Presidential Science Appointments
The Honorable
John Edward Porter, Partner, Hogan and Hartson, LLP; and former Member, U.S. House
of Representatives (IL) - (mp3)
Session Q&A - (mp3)
Luncheon Address:
Duncan Moore, Moderator (mp3)
"The
Graying of the Great Powers: Demographics and Geopolitics in the 21st Century"
(link to publication web page) Richard Jackson, Director and Senior Fellow, Global
Aging Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies - (mp3)
Click
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(Plenary Session)
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Albert H. Teich, AAAS, Moderator
- (mp3) Adam Bly, Founder and
CEO, Seed Media Group; and Editor-in-Chief, Seed Magazine - (mp3)
Sheril R. Kirshenbaum, Nicholas Institute
for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University; and Science Blogger (PDF)
- (mp3) Anthony
Crider, Associate Professor of Physics, Elon University; and co-founder of
the SciLands, a science continent in the Second Life world (PDF) - (mp3)
Panel
Q&A - (mp3)
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