Milan Mares, vice-director of research at the Information Theory and Automation division of the Czech Academy of Sciences has warned that advanced computing research in the country may be at risk following a 60% reduction in the funds allocated to the Academy in the 1992-93 state budget. In an interview with the Central European Business Journal, Miles warned, the Academy must continue to fill the void left by a non-existent private computer industry, until such time as scientists can be gainfully employed in the private sector. The alternative could be the loss of advanced computing research in the Czech Republic. The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall; most notably, it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany. Work has also been contracted in from the French firm Matra SA and the US company Rockwell International Inc as well as from Digital Equipment Corp.
