February 10, 2007
Resilience Project White Paper
(Response to note from The
Speaker’s Office [376] )
(Response ŕ to [376] )
Starting the Discussion with the National Science Foundation
About the proposed Resilience Project
Hi, Paul!
(edited section – personal remarks)
I found your reply a bit surprising. (Maybe my fault for not studying all your prior postings, but I was surprised nonetheless.) If you were writing bluntly to the CISE Program Directors in plain English, its sounds as if you would have said: "Hi, folks! I would like to meet with each one of you, and get as much written statement and PowerPoint as I can from you, so that I can show these PowerPoints to Congress and ridicule your wrong-headed and wasteful way of thinking."
If the CISE Program Directors got a whiff of this from what you wrote to them, there is no wonder they may have run straight to their Division Direct!!
(edited section – personal remarks)
As you say, I do personally believe the taxpayer could be getting a lot more benefit, in principle, from the levels of funding that already exist in many areas of technology. But that's easier said than done.
Best of luck to us all,
Paul W. (NOT NSF views....)
Note sent January 29th ŕ [382]
January 30th reply from NSF ŕ [383]