Funds to support activities in Education, Training, and Human Resources for FY 1997 total $45 million, compared to the FY 1996 Estimated budget of $90 million, a decrease of 50%.
In ED, the Education Resources Information center (ERIC) will continue to maintain, and provide access to, the world's largest electronic bibliographic database of education-related publications and documents through a national system of specialist clearing houses. The ERIC system provides access to its network of bibliographic information to educators, policy makers, parents and the general public. It provides access to the database clearinghouses via mail, telephone, and electronic routes. It maintains a question and answer service via the Internet. Improvements are planned in two areas: providing increased access through the Internet node (gopher and WWW) to the National Library's repository of information about ED programs, projects, publications, and statistics by beginning the development of a digital library; and actively disseminating syntheses of research and development findings and other materials through electronic networking.
DARPA will facilitate transition of the Combat Care Associate software to emergency services.
NSF no longer reports the Directorate for Education and Human Resources budget as part of the HPCC Program, but the educational activity has not decreased in that agency. NSF will continue support of the Grand Challenges and National Challenges initiated in FY 1993, FY 1994, and FY 1995. It will also continue to support the paradigm shift involving increased use of high performance computing to enhance or replace the experimental phase of the scientific method.
NASA will demonstrate education products from K-14 Education Cooperative Agreement Notice and issue a second K-14 Education Cooperative Agreement.
NIH/NCRR will continue to provide National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for formalized training for biomedical scientists in the use of high performance computing. NIH/NCI will apply computational chemistry to understanding of drug interactions with enzymes and nucleic acids as a basis for discovery of new drugs and provide support for increasing numbers of users in extramural and intramural research in biomedical computing.
In the DOE Advances in Supercomputing program, the number of state sites will be reduced from five to the original three.
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