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...readers on cost accounting requirements for government research grants. He opposes the Office of Management and Budget's guidelines for documenting research, as well as the process by which the government occasionally audits these standards, because of "the noxious, deleterious effect it has on the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the research of universities...
...energy, his scientific skills and his startling modes of communication. "He has an extremely strong and sound reputation that will at times be modified by comments on him as a person," says Roland J. Liebert, associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois and a former NSF official...
Liebert, who spent three years as the NSF's program director for sociology, says that Lang's cc list mailings had impact in that agency. "I think standards were raised," he says, commenting on Lang's campaign against the Ladd-Lipset survey of colleges. "There ought to be more of us involved...
However, one of the officials involved with the grants process yesterday suggested that the NSF had some reservations about Harvard's computer science programs...
...From a computer science point of view, Harvard had one of the average cases for receiving such a large grant." Michael Stonebreaker, a professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California and one of the "on-site" inspectors for NSF, said yesterday...