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Stephen Olson at Chinese Development Institute Conference
Clyde Prestowitz giving presentation to CDI...
Steve Olson teaching trade negotiations at the Mekong Institute...
Stephen Olson to speak at upcoming workshop organized by the International Institute for Trade and Development on
"Economics of GMS Agricultural trade in goods and services towards the world market"
Chiangmai, Thailand Sep 8-12.
A proliferation of high performance cluster and grid computing and Web services applications will yield substantial productivity gains in the United States and worldwide over the next decade. North Carolina's economy will benefit significantly from those gains provided two things occur. First, the broadband infrastructure needed to support grid computing and Web services must be developed in a timely fashion. Second, the state must attract (or grow from within) a sufficient pool of skilled computer and communications professionals to fully deploy and utilize the new technologies and applications.
This study estimates that, given adequate access to broadband infrastructure and sufficient IT workforce, the deployment of high performance grid computing and Web services applications would contribute the following gains to North Carolina's economy over 2010 baseline growth forecasts:
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