House Panel Urged to Support $366-Million Computing-Research Program.

INFORMATION technology; UNITED States. Science Subcommittee on Basic Research; GOVERNMENT agencies; TECHNOLOGY; POLITICAL science

Comments on support for a multi-million dollar computing-research program in the United States called Information Technology for the 21st Century, or IT2. IT2 to focus on long-term research with the involvement of six government agencies; Importance of the program described by the administration of President Bill Clinton at a hearing of the Science Subcommittee on Basic Research; Question regarding the originality of the initiative; Growth of the IT2 program in response to a report by the Presidential advisory committee.