What DARPA's Been Up To, At Length

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 27, 2009 @01:13AM from the one-long-list-of-credits dept.

The New York Times takes an inside look at DARPA, the secretive defense agency, mentioned frequently on Slashdot, that is "changing the way we use machines — and the way they use us" in the form of a review of Michael Belfiore's The Department of Mad Scientists. Besides tracing the history of the agency, Belfiore's book expounds on the well-known Grand Challenge and its link to ever-more-automated vehicle control in civilian and military contexts, as well as other DARPA pet projects, including robotic surgery, information analysis, and the integration of electronics with the human body.

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Re:The suckitude that was DARPA head Tony Tether by kilodelta · 2009-12-27 07:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yeah, Bush was famous for putting people with no real subject relevant experience in control of agencies like DARPA, NASA and any other science endeavors.

The whole motive of the Bush administration was two fold, loot the middle class and employ nepotism as far and widely as possible.