Early signs are good.
Less than 24 hours after the presidential inauguration, Senate Democrats introduced a bill to strengthen national competitiveness in critical areas of technology, including high-performance computing and networking. In other developments, the House Science Subcommittee heard from a panel of computing experts on the future evolution of the High- Performance Computing and Networking Program, with discussion focusing on legislative strategies for building a national information infrastructure and the role of the National Research and Education Network. Computer networking per se has thus worked its way into a place of prominence in the political world. At SDSC, networking research has been and remains a top priority. In addition to Braun and Polyzos, Bilal Chinoy, SDSC staff programmer, and Kim Claffy, SDSC junior fellow and UCSD graduate student, are members of the ANR group.