Benefits and Risks of Federal Funding for Sematech
Benefits and Risks of Federal Funding for Sematech

Author: Philip C. Webre

Publisher:

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 9781437903102

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sematech is a proposed industrywide research consortium aimed at advancing the technology with which semiconductors are manufactured. In 1987, the Congress was to decide whether the fed. gov¿t. would participate in the consortium, and what form that participation would take. This report analyzes the potential benefits and risks of fed. involvement in Sematech. Contents: (1) Introduction: The Public Interest in the Semiconductor Industry; Federal Support in 1987; (2) Overview of the Semiconductor Industry in 1987; (3) The Semiconductor Industry and the Public Interest; (4) Evaluation of the Sematech Proposal. Appendixes: (A) Fed. Spending on Semiconductor R&D; (B) Introduction to Semiconductors. Tables and figures.

Red Reckoning
Red Reckoning

Author: Mark Boulton

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0807180815

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the nation and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the volume’s contributors examine a broad array of topics, including the Cold War’s impact on national security, race relations, gun culture and masculinity, law, college football, advertising, music, film, free speech, religion, and even board games. Above all, Red Reckoning brings a vitally important era back to life for those who lived through it and for students and scholars wishing to understand it.

Trade Warriors
Trade Warriors

Author: Marc L. Busch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-02-05

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780521799386

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Trade Warriors examines the strategic trade policies of states in high technology industries.

Technology Infrastructure and Competitive Position
Technology Infrastructure and Competitive Position

Author: Gregory Tassey

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1461536081

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Global interest in technology-based growth politics is growing as technology becomes an increasingly important factor in economic competitiveness. In spite of increased efforts in many nations to develop more effective industry strategies, most of these endeavors have been ad hoc exercises rather than derived from a consistent framework. Technology Infrastructure and Competitive Position provides that missing framework. It begins by providing an overview of technology-based competition and the relevant issues. A conceptual model is developed that emphasizes the roles and impacts of the supporting infrastructure. Finally, the book addresses the interaction of corporate and governmental roles for providing technology infrastructure, some funding issues and mechanisms for cooperative planning and implementation.

The Machine in Me
The Machine in Me

Author: Gary Lee Downey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1136679200

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in our society, a force widely regarded as monolithically progressive. The Machine in Me will lead the reader to understand how deeply connected we are to The Machine and how beneficial it would be for us to really understand ourselves and machines as partially configured of the other--we as part machine, machines as part human. In this way, we can begin to see both the power and limitations of technology.