Besides his art, Peter is finishing an Intel science talent search project, and plays on a traveling ultimate Frisbee team.
Mr. Bloomberg saw that project as a solution to the city's inability to compete with Silicon Valley for engineering and science talent.
In 1942 the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company sponsors its first Science Talent Search, a national fair now known as the Intel Science Talent Search that awards scholarship money for independent science projects by high school students.
"We're losing an alarming proportion of our nation's science talent once the students get to college," says Mitchell J. Chang, an education professor at U.C.L.A. who has studied the matter.
In their joint proposal to the foundations in August, the project leaders for the three universities wrote, "Universities are losing much of the top data science talent they produce to industry.
Although the metropolitan area has the highest concentration of medical science talent in the country, it lags far behind the Boston and San Francisco areas as a center for turning their ideas into products and services.
( About half of the Island's semifinalists did research at Stony Brook, making it one of the country's largest incubators of science talent. Other students work at places like Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory).
One such step is the recent, apparently largely successful effort at drawing international science talent.
Unexpected hurdles include the difficulty of hiring critical science talent from abroad, with H1B visas very difficult to obtain.
The French historical dictionary by Godefroy (1881) gives action de former, instruction, enquête, science, talent as early meanings of 'information'information
