Not like that ‘internet’ thing turned out to be useful
April 2nd, 2005
NYT: Pentagon Redirects Its Research Dollars.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon – which has long underwritten open-ended “blue sky” research by the nation’s best computer scientists – is sharply cutting such spending at universities, researchers say, in favor of financing more classified work and narrowly defined projects that promise a more immediate payoff.
Evidence of a shift from “basic research to advanced weapons systems development”. Here’s my next DARPA-friendly paper title: “Weapons Considered Harmful.”