----- Original Message ----- From: "John Monberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:57 PM Subject: [Air-l] NSF, Science Communication, and Google
> There has been a lot of media coverage about Google's recently > announced IPO. One aspect that received little attention is that Larry > Page and Sergei Brin, Google's founders, were supported as Stanford > graduate students through the NSF's Digital Libraries Initiative. I > can imagine that their experience in the program shaped the company's > ethos, which emphasized technical expertise and de-emphasized immediate > commercial returns, which has turned out to be a pretty profitable > approach. > > Here's a link to some background. > > http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=71217 > > Regards, > John Monberg > > > _______________________________________________ > Air-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l ============================================================================= Si necesita retirarse de la lista envie un mensaje a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] con una unica linea : unsubscribe r-caldas Este mensaje lo debe enviar desde la cuenta electronica que usO para inscribirse Para inscribirse en la lista envie un mensaje a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] con una unica linea : subscribe r-caldas Los mensajes que circulan en la lista los puede consultar en : http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
