National Impacts

By David Wojick and Walt Warnick

DOE recently announced a new kind of R&D effort, called Energy Innovation Hubs. See http://www.energy.gov/hubs/. These are large scale, highly focused R&D efforts modeled on the Manhattan Project. The idea is to bring a lot of great minds together under one roof, to tackle a very specific sci-tech problem.

By Walt Warnick and David Wojick

Every scientist knows that science advances only if knowledge is shared. Mathematically, this statement implies that the advance of science is a function of both the sharing of research results, as well as doing the original research. In principle, therefore, decision makers face the problem of deciding how much to spend on original research and how much to spend on sharing the knowledge that comes out of research.

WorldWideScience provides a one-stop search engine to mine global scientific databases in the deep web

The internet has revolutionized society by changing the way people communicate, find information, and enjoy entertainment. But a standard internet search misses at least 90 percent of the information available. 

The internet is separated into two unequal pools of information. The surface web contains pages of information that are utilized by popular search engines. The second pool of information is locked away in the deep web, which consists of countless databases world wide.