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NIST Advanced Technology Program Awards

Posted by michael on from the buck-stops-here dept.

An anonymous submitter writes "Look, some research money awarded to all the recent slashdot topics! Printable LCD displays and circuits, high accuracy biometric algorithms, holographic data storage, an overclockers dream, and the DMCA fights back. See all the projects listed for NIST's FY2002 funding."

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  1. Slashdot pull? by jukal · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Look, some research money awarded to all the recent slashdot topics

    Some of these might have actually got a pull from /. in getting the award. How about pulling one of these open source challenges as well? There seems to be a lot of interest for a Linux API for the Synaptic cPad for example - still it missing.

  2. This is corporate welfare by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It sounds like a good idea to fund technology that will improve our lives, but when the government uses public money to fund research that will eventually lead to large private profits by paying for the financial risk of researching the technology, it is corporate welfare.

    You may like the technology, but corporate welfare is a huge drain on the treasury that only makes the rich richer, borders on socialism, and forces the taxpayer to take the fall for technology that won't work for private businesses.

    More information on corporate welfare can be found here:

    http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb105-9.html

    http://www.citizen.org/congress/welfare/index.cfm