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The Innovation Engine: Government-Funded Academic Research.

The article recounts the author's experience with government-funded academic research (GoFAR) projects at a single university over a 40-year career, highlighting their technological and economic contributions. It summarizes the five most successful projects, including the Reduced Instruction Set Com...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 12; pp. 58 - 66
Autor principal: Patterson, David
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2025
Materias:
Federal aid to research
Computer science research
Technological innovations
Research & economics
Microprocessor performance
Computer storage devices
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Sumario:The article recounts the author's experience with government-funded academic research (GoFAR) projects at a single university over a 40-year career, highlighting their technological and economic contributions. It summarizes the five most successful projects, including the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), focused on microprocessor speed, and the Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) project.