Already, as the Times noted, Republican members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology have pointed to the surge in private funding as heralding "a new era of lower federal spending".
The experiments, while confirming the potential of the technology, have pointed out some weakness in catalyst stability and reactor design.
Key contributions in the literature on assessment and governance of science and technologies have pointed to the need for solving urgent, complex, real-world problems (Weinberg 1972, Thompson Klein 1990, Decker and Fleischer 2010, Schmidt 2011, Lingner 2011).
As HuffPost's technology editor Bianca Bosker has pointed out on more than one occasion, this transformation has gone approximately as well as British Petroleum's labors to burnish its image as a lover of handicapped dolphins.
But as Paul Joskow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has pointed out, the standard "levelised" calculations, which divide the total amount of power a plant will produce over its lifetime by its total lifetime cost, are a poor way to compare fossil fuels and renewable energy.Other measures have problems, too.
In this context, Taylor Fravel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has pointed to a seemingly encouraging statement from the Chinese foreign ministry in late February that "no country including China has claimed sovereignty over the entire South China Sea .This could be interpreted to mean that the nine-dashed line is not a claim to all the sea's waters, simply to the land features.
We have also discussed current trends in the development of NMR technologies and have pointed out directions for the development of future computational methods.
Although the completion of the Microarray Quality Control (MAQC) project provides a framework to assess microarray technologies, others have pointed out that it does not sufficiently address inter- and intra-platform comparability and reproducibility [ 3- 5].
"Now it seems that the technology has reached a point, and the market has evolved to a point, where this kind of business is really gaining traction," said Mr. Moriarty, a former lawyer for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The letter says: "AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of such systems is - practically if not legally - feasible within years, not decades".
Battery technology has "reached the point where it really makes sense to drive electric," said Ulrich Kranz, director of the project's team, who previously led the BMW team that revived the Mini brand in 2001.
