> One of the interesting pieces of science that I think a lot of people don't think about is strategic investment.
the Internet itself began with DARPA. the web at CERN. both came from publicly-funded research.
the Internet itself began with DARPA. the web at CERN. both came from publicly-funded research.
> "The name of the organization first changed from its founding name, ARPA, to DARPA, in March 1972, changing back to ARPA in February 1993, then reverted to DARPA in March 1996"
It has links to some of the panel reports that led to the founding of NCSA, but the OSTI website has been having intermittent 502s for me this morning.
The original "black proposal" was online on the NCSA website, but seems to have been missed in a website reorg; wayback has it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161017190452/http://www.ncsa.i... . It's absolutely fascinating reading, over 40 years later.