Thursday, December 1, 2011

NSF Fastlane: Party like it's 1999

I know the government is a monolith.

I know the government does not have any in-house software developers anymore to write and maintain software.

I know these are Troubled Economic Times.

But, still, what's up with Fastlane? This system is a dinosaur snail. I've had simple figureless PDFs take a century to distill.

NSF, if you fund me, in addition to doing amazing research I'll stick a few of my a-ma-zing undergrads on revamping Fastlane. Actually, I'll make it a class project and stick a gazillion undergrads on it. Give us a semester, that puppy will zip.

2 comments:

  1. They are not fixing it because they are phasing it out. It should be gone by now, but they keep pushing the date back. Start getting used to research.gov!

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  2. I'm ready! Whether my university's research office is or not I don't know :-)

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