A Message About Research From
Tom Dyke
Vice Provost for Research
Summer 1999
The inner workings of the mind, the settling of the New World, the digital future–research at the University of Oregon is leading to new knowledge in each of these important areas of human understanding.
Digital information is one of the most powerful tools scientists and researchers use to explore the frontiers of knowledge. Of the six UO research efforts highlighted in the following pages, four leverage advances in digital technological to create wholly new and original advances.
This work ranges across many fields: developing a more powerful Internet; using today’s Internet to improve pilot training and flight safety; designing biology-based microchips to better understand the brain; and creating new works of art, not with paints or pencils, but with advanced hardware and software.
Inquiry also features advances made using more traditional tools–from the archeologist’s pick and shovel to the careful interviewing techniques of the psychologist.
But regardless of the tool, the process is the same: our researchers are using their creativity to increase understanding. And with that increase comes new possibilities, new beneficial applications, and new questions for tomorrow’s researchers to ask, to wrestle with, to answer.