Glen writes: < I interviewed one of his mentors there and, although the model *seems* good, they're similarly plagued with the grant-writing burden Eric(S) and Pamela mention. The same seems similar at a company, here called Galois. >
That's my impression of Galois as well, that they do a lot of job-by-job things (SBIR funding), and don't have investors with a long-term vision. At LANL, there's a split between people that have long-term core program work (there are no real issues with getting funding, but the work is not inspiring and sometimes doesn't even make sense), the science community (full time grant-writing, where some players are much more equal than others), and what I would call forward-looking programs (hustle and fight for territory -- it is almost like start-up). But it is hard to have much hope for a complex that is run by a person (Rick Perry) that ran a campaign on the premise of shutting it down. Especially in the Trump era, I think private research is the place to be. Preferably for a company that has multi-national investors. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
