[Air-l] NSF, Science Communication, and Google

[John Monberg]

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