BASIC Innovators Series
Innovation
matters. As the late great scientist Stephen Jay Gould showed in his studies of
evolution, being at the forefront and establishing a niche is a key to
competitiveness. The San Francisco Bay Area has earned a vaunted reputation for
being one of the nation’s regional leaders in technological innovation. It is
home to five national scientific laboratories and a host of other federal and
non-profit research facilities, some of the country’s finest research
universities and top private industry R&D firms, and a plethora of
cutting-edge start-up technology companies. This abundance of R&D
capabilities, in combination with a proud history of intellectual openness and
pioneering spirit, has drawn many of the nation’s brightest minds and scientific
talent.
Bay Area scientists and engineers are striving to uphold the
region’s reputation for technological innovation by serving at the vanguard of
exciting new research in a wide range of fields, including biology, advanced
materials, energy and computation. Breakthroughs in any of these fields hold
forth the promise of a bright and prosperous future for the region, the State of
California, and our nation as a whole. In the BASIC Innovators Series, key Bay
Area innovative thinkers share their thoughts on the science today that will
lead to the technology tomorrow.
Interviews of Regional
Innovators
BASIC is conducting an
ongoing series of interviews in which key innovative thinkers share their
thoughts on the science today that will lead to the technology of tomorrow.
Issue Number 2 in the BASIC Innovators Series features an
interview with Steven Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, and winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for the development
of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
Issue Number 1 in Innovators Series
features interviews with BASIC Chairman Emeritus Robert J. T. Morris, Vice
President, Services Research, IBM, and BASIC Chairman Regis B. Kelly, Executive
Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3).
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