The belief that basic or pure research lays the foundation for applied research was fixed in science policy circles by Vannevar Bush's 1945 report on Science: The Endless Frontier. Unfortunately, his ...

I had a meeting with IBM’s head of research at its Rational User Conference last year in Orlando and got into a discussion about the process for R&D as it actually happens in the lab. I liked the fact ...

Studying Pure and Applied Mathematics means mastering the universal language that that shapes everything from ocean currents to encryption systems to the spiral of a snail’s shell. What can I do with ...