Center of Science, Policy and Society Programs: R&D Budget and Policy Program

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Twenty-Ninth Annual AAAS FORUM ON

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

April 22-23, 2004

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill Washington, DC

FINAL PROGRAM

Thursday, April 22

8:00 a.m. Registration Opens

9:00 Welcome: Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and

President, AAAS

9:15 Keynote Address: John H. Marburger, III, Director, White House Office of Science and

Technology Policy

10:00 BUDGETARY AND POLICY CONTEXT FOR R&D IN FY 2005 (Plenary Session)

Moderator: Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and

President, AAAS

• Science and the National Interest

Tom Daschle, Member, United States Senate (D-SD); and Senate Minority

Leader

• AAAS Overview of Federal Budget Proposals for R&D in FY 2005

Kei Koizumi, Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program, AAAS

• Winning Greater Influence for Science

Daniel Yankelovich, Founder and Chairman of Viewpoint Learning, Inc; DYG,

Inc.; and Public Agenda

• The Limits of a Market-Based Approach to Science

Luke Georghiou, Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Management;

and Executive Director, PREST, University of Manchester, UK

12:00 Noon Luncheon

Presiding: Mae Jemison, President, BioSentient Corporation; and Member, AAAS

Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Address: Speaker to be announced

2:00 p.m. MAJOR ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY (Concurrent

Sessions)

(A) Policy Implications of Converging New Technologies: Nano-, Bio-, Info-, Cognitive

Status of the new technologies • Their promise and uncertainties • Prospects for intersections among them • Social, ethical, and other implications • Enhancing humans beyond normal capabilities

Moderator: Braden R. Allenby, Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety, AT&T; and

Member, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

• Policy Implications of Unifying Science and Converging New Technologies

Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, Engineering Directorate, National

Science Foundation; and Chair, Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and

Technology, National Science and Technology Council

• Where Are We Going With These Technologies? Some Possible Futures

William Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering

• Converging Technologies and Academic and Commercial Success: A Research Agenda

Lynne Zucker, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles

• Converging Technologies, Diverging Values? European and American Perspectives on NBIC.

Davis Baird, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of South

Carolina

Discussant: Joseph Coates, Consulting Futurist, Washington, DC

(B) Will Technology Enhance or Erode Democracy? Policy and Civic Implications of

Information Technologies

New voting technologies: merits, risks, vulnerabilities • Digital-divide issues • IT and privacy concerns • Who will control the Internet? • Using the Web to build a more informed and engaged citizenry

Moderator: Susan Hackwood, Executive Director, California Council on Science and Technology; and Member, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

• Fans, Consumers, Citizens: Rethinking the Concept of Democratic Participation

Henry Jenkins, Director of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

• The Current Status, Potential, and Risks of Voting Technologies

Charles H. Stewart III, Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

• The Persistent Issue of the Digital Divide

Anthony Wilhelm, Author and Telecommunications Consultant

• Governance and de facto Control of the Internet

James X. Dempsey, Executive Director, Center for Democracy and Technology

Discussant: Robert D. Atkinson, Vice President and Director of the Technology and

New Economy Project, Progressive Policy Institute

(C) How Sustainable is the Modern Research University?

Changes in institutional mission, funding profile, and management structures • Public expectations of the university • Stakeholders' interests • Reward structures (institutional and individual) • Structural strains between research and teaching; between graduate and undergraduate education; between academic departments and research centers • "Public" universities and autonomy

Moderator: Robert E. Barnhill, Vice Chancellor for Research and Public Service, University of Kansas; CGS/NSF Dean in Residence, National Science Foundation; and Chair, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

• The Public's Expectations of Today's Universities

John Engler, President of State and Local Government, and Vice President of Government Solutions for North America, Electronic Data Systems; former Governor, State of Michigan

• The University's Multiple and Changing Missions

C. Peter Magrath, President, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant

Colleges

• Changes in Revenue Sources at Major U.S. Research Universities

Irwin Feller, Senior Visiting Scientist, AAAS; Professor Emeritus of Economics,

Pennsylvania State University

• The Changing Role of Universities' Vice Presidents of Research

Robert E. Barnhill, Vice Chancellor for Research and Public Service, University of

Kansas; CGS/NSF Dean in Residence, National Science Foundation; and Chair, AAAS

Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Discussant: Lynn Jelinski, Sunshine Consultants International

5:00 Coffee Break

5:45 The William D. Carey Lecture (public invited)

Presiding: Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, AAAS

Address: "Science, Government, and the Public Interest"

Harold Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

6:45 Reception

Friday, April 23

7:45 a.m. Breakfast

Presiding: Kerri-Ann Jones, Director, Office of International Science and Engineering,

National Science Foundation

Address: Jaime Parada Avila, General Director, National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico

9:00 CHALLENGES FOR THE U.S. IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE GLOBAL

ECONOMY (Plenary Session)

Offshoring of U.S. jobs, including high-tech • Growing S&T sophistication of other nations • The U.S.'s use of foreign-born talent • Is innovation still the U.S.'s "ace in the hole"? • What does "retraining" U.S. workers really mean? • How can it be done?

Moderator: Ambassador Ira Shapiro, Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

• Two Views on the Offshoring of U.S. Jobs, Including High-Tech

Catherine L. Mann, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics

Ron Hira, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Rochester Institute of

Technology

• How Do Developing Nations Compare with the U.S. on S&T Performance, Innovation,

and S&T Workforces?

Diana Hicks, Professor and Chair of the School of Public Policy, Georgia

Institute of Technology

• The Case of China

Denis Fred Simon, Dean, Lally School of Management and Technology,

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute