Pentagon to Significantly Cut CS Research

GabrielF writes "Over the last few decades, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has funded some of the most successful computer science research projects in history, such as the Internet. However, according to the New York Times, DARPA has recently decided to significantly cut funding of open-ended computer science research projects in favor of projects that will yield short-term military results. Leading computer scientists, such as David Patterson, the head of the ACM are outraged and worried."

Comments

More bucks for the bangs

[Doc Ruby]

Meanwhile, the Pentagon will be spending hugely more money on more expensive weapons. Because of all the armies poised against us, now that we've got that low-rent Cold War out of the way. Why pay for communications research during an infowar (like the TerrorWar), when we can buy missile defense systems against the departed Soviet Union?

Re:Technology

[kisak]

Isn't helping getting funding for the breakthrough research that created among other things the internet, what Gore (somewhat clumsy) pointed out that he had done while in Congress? Funny ironi that the government is now "lead" by the the guy who seemed to make his whole election campaign on misrepresenting Gore's remark, and that this government lacks the vision of Gore to continue to fund this important research.