Category Archives: $$$

Are we ready for Venture Qapital?

Posted on 12/11/2012 by aram

From cnet and via Matt Liefer, comes news of a new venture capital firm, known as The Quantum Wave Fund. According to their website: Quantum Wave Fund is a venture capital firm focused on seeking out early stage private companies … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, News, Quantum, Technology | 7 Comments

Funding boost for the arXiv

Posted on 8/28/2012 by sflammia

This is fantastic news: starting this January, the Simons Foundation will provide the Cornell University Library with up to US $300k per year (for the next five years) of matching funds to help ensure the continued sustainability of arXiv.org. The funds are … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Economics, Open Science, Scientific Publishing | 4 Comments

Alexei Kitaev wins Fundamental Physics Prize

Posted on 7/31/2012 by sflammia

Alexei Kitaev was just named as a co-recipient of the inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize, along with 8 other distinguished physicists. This is a brand new prize which was started by a Russian billionaire named Yuri Milner. More at the New York … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Announcement | 7 Comments

This post was supported by Goldman-Sachs Grant No. GS98039

Posted on 7/30/2012 by sflammia

After my earlier post about the defense budget, I thought it might be nice if there were some other similar-sized revenue streams that we could tap into other than DoD funding. It got me thinking… who has the most money? … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Science | 5 Comments

Matt Hastings wins a Simons Investigator 2012 award

Posted on 7/26/2012 by sflammia

The Simons Foundation has just announced the recipients of the Simons Investigator awards for 2012. These awards are similar in spirit to the MacArthur awards: the recipients did not know they were under consideration for the grant, and you can’t … Continue reading →

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Rounding Error in the Defense Budget

Posted on 7/23/2012 by sflammia

I recently (and somewhat belatedly) came across the following news item: NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy The gist of the article is that the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) just donated two telescopes with greater optical capabilities than … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Science | 4 Comments

Look Ma, I’m a Financial Journalist!

Posted on 3/7/2011 by Pontifex Praeteritorum

In this Saturday’s New York Times, in an article titled The Chasm Between Consumers and the Fed, I found the most amazing chart: Of course I am not a financial journalist, so I have absolutely no understanding of the gigantic … Continue reading →