Findings:
- Software construction is a mess: needs breakthroughs.
- We do not know how to scale the Internet 100x
- Security, manageability, services, terabit per second issues.
- USG needs high-performance computing (Simulation) but market is not providing vector-supers – just providing processor arrays.
- Trained people are in very short supply.
Recommendations:
- Lewis & Clark expeditions to 21st century.
- Increase long-term research funding by 1.4B$/y.
- Re-invigorate university research & teaching.
- Facilitate immigration of technical experts.