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  • n  the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11
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  • Now Is Not The Time To Gut Funding For Innovative Energy Research
    By EDF Blogs This commentary, authored by Robert Fares, originally appeared on Scientific American's "Plugged In" blog . Modeled after the successful Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) uses small grants to bring transformative energy technologies to commercialization. (Source: ARPA-E) Last month, a subcommittee of the U.S ...
    July 8, 2013 - Environmental Defense Fund
  • Jaron Lanier: How To Fix an Internet Economy
    Although the origins of the Internet go back over 50 years to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) the consumer internet that we know, the World Wide Web, is less than 25 years old and didn't enter the public consciousness until the advent of the web browser 20 years ago. This history is relevant to Jaron Lanier's surprising assertion that the Internet is unique among mass ...
    July 5, 2013 - Forbes

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