David Gross
David Gross
David Jonathan Grossis an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. He is the former director and current holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a faculty member in the UC Santa Barbara Physics Department and is currently affiliated...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth19 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
It's a very shocking and profound change of the EU's position. The EU's proposal seems to represent an historic shift in the regulatory approach to the Internet from one that is based on private sector leadership to a government, top-down control of the Internet.
We did not change anything on the role of the US government with regard to the technical aspects that we were very concerned about.
When the Medicare drug benefit was passed, AARP issued a challenge to the drug industry to keep increases at least to the rate of inflation until people had better coverage. By and large, that's not happening, ... Prices are going up more than twice the rate of inflation.
We want to be very clear, and not necessarily fuzz things up with diplomatic language that may get us in trouble down the road.
Our strong preference is to have a document that everyone can be proud of.
AARP does not think the solution is to regulate drug prices. We think there are market solutions.
Denver is signed, sealed and delivered to the league. Right now, we're just waiting to get the team name and personnel in place. I'd say you'll see an announcement no later than Nov. 1.
anything that will create any problems for the private sector.
As far as I can tell, these discussions about Internet governance won't put one more computer or one more cell phone or one more anything into the hands of somebody who doesn't have it in Africa, Asia, South America or elsewhere,
I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.
I think there were times when we definitely missed Ben. It seemed like we'd make a stop on defense, but we couldn't convert on the other end. I think if we had Ben in there, we would have had more of a flow on offense and he could have helped us get some better shots.
We look at the Internet's success and want to make sure we keep the recipe for it. If you modify it, the risk is that you come out with something far worse.
We've been very, very clear throughout the process that there are certain things we can agree to and certain things we can't agree to, ... It's not a negotiating issue. This is a matter of national policy.
It has to be done in an appropriate way, so that nobody thinks it is a backdoor approach to have intergovernmental regulation for something that ought not to be regulated,