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Although hundreds of millions of people breathlessly watched the moon landing on live television, it is only in hindsight that it can be appreciated how profoundly packet switching would come to affect the day-to-day lives of future generations. It is clear that technology profoundly matters in today's economy and society.
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5 Effective July 1, 2015, the institution is called the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. References in this report to the National Research Council are used in an historical context identifying programs prior to July 1.
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Most recently, the 2012 NRC report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology described the growing size and importance of the IT sector and offered the most recent update of the tire tracks diagram10 (reproduced, with a correction,11 in Figure I.1) .The diagram illustrates how fundamental research in IT, conducted in industry and universities, has led to the introduction of entirely new product categories that ultimately became billion-dollar industries.
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33, summarizing National Research Council, 2003, Innovation in Information Technology, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pp.
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SOURCE: Reprinted from National Research Council, 2012, Continuing Innovation in Information Technology, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
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With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) , the CSTB of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine con vened a committee of experts to organize and host a workshop exploring how academic and industry research has underpinned innovation in information technology and has had significant economic or societal impact.
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