New Enterprise Models for University Research?

So computer science research is very difficult these days as major challenge and opportunity is development of large scale distributed systems
- Can't be done with traditional faculty + 2 graduate student model
- Can't be done without 75% of resources going into "non-research" activities such as maintaining software infrastructure in a rapidly evolving world -- this is familiar in fields such as experimental physics and astronomy
- Industry will probably have much more resources and do better RESEARCH anyway (no analogy for physics!)

All projects today are collaborative -- communication revolution has dramatically increased need for travel -- I made 42 "business" trips in 1998

Academia tends to give same person marketing and technical leadership responsibilities -- Industry separates

So NPAC will hopefully be restructured with 75% of activities transferred to 3 small businesses: WebWisdom.com(education), Translet(distributed computing), MindTel (HCI and universal access)

So computer science research is very difficult these days as major challenge and opportunity is development of large scale distributed systems