Tomorrow is the deadline for a preliminary proposal we are submitting to the National Science Foundation. Eight of us faculty members, at three collaborating Universities, are asking for $15M over seven years to develop ways to make it easier for people to collaborate over long distances.<\/p>\n
Sadly, this is the best time to ask for support for such a proposal. It is all too clear that Zoom and its equivalents are poor substitutes for physical presence.<\/p>\n
We are under no illusion that anything we do will replace being there in person. But that’s ok.<\/p>\n
After all, nobody thinks of the telephone as a replacement for being there in person. But it’s still nice that some really smart people invented the telephone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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