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NSF Tags $30M For Game-Changing Internet Research

Posted by timothy on from the does-moving-the-goalposts-count? dept.

coondoggie writes "So you want to build a better Internet? The National Science Foundation today said it would spread $30 million over 2-4 projects that radically transform the Internet 'through new security, reliability and collaborative applications. The NSF said its Future Internet Architectures (FIA) program wants: "Technological innovations and the requirements of emerging and yet to be discovered applications, the Internet of the future is likely to be different from that of today. Proposals should not focus on making the existing Internet better through incremental changes, but rather should focus on designing comprehensive architectures that can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century."'"

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  1. SPDY by Enderandrew · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper

    Do I get $30 million for finding that for him?

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  2. Re:Time to disolve NSF? by goose-incarnated · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is much better use for 30M such as spending it on education, which is broken rather than Internet which isn't not so broken.

    Yup ... you're seriously making a great case there, trust me on this ;-)

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  3. I'll take cash or check... by cosm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Security:
    Fourier Transform FT( Internet ) - Security through obscurity, it won't make any sense!

    Reliability:
    Mobius Transform MT( Internet) - You always end up where you start, SynAckishly

    Collaboration:
    Wavelet Transform WT ( Internet) - Make it a design ideology, Google's got it ;)

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  4. Re:This is nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here's how I read your comment:

    "Wahhh, wahhh, do what I want with your money! Wahh!"

  5. A series of tubes! by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh wait, somebody already took that one.

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  6. Re:Likely to be different? by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Funny

    and I'm not talkin about what oysters sometimes produce.

    You're not talking about sperm? Okay now I'm just confused.

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  7. Re:Time to disolve NSF? by TimHunter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't waste it on education. $30M is much better spent fighting hunger. And working for world peace. Spend the $30M fighting hunger and working for world peace. And manned space exploration. Spend the $30M fighting hunger, working for world peace, and manned space exploration.

    I'll come in again.