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January 27, 2024
“The Third University of Cambridge”: BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet

We’ve all heard that “DARPA invented the Internet.” But few have heard of BBN, the contractor that […]

The Autonomous Land Vehicle, Pilot’s Associate, and Battle Management: Three North Star Applications Projects from DARPA’s Strategic Computing Portfolio

Introduction DARPA’s customer relationships and the individual agency of its PMs are possibly the two biggest differentiators […]

MOSIS: The 1980s DARPA ‘Silicon Broker’

This piece is a part of a FreakTakes series. The goal is to put together a series […]

Strategic Computing’s Machine Acquisition Program

Introduction In the early 1980s, as DARPA’s Strategic Computing Initiative was getting underway, lack of cheap computing […]

January 8, 2024
Texas Gas Stations, NIH-Sponsored Post-Docs, and the Foolishness of Artificially Subsidizing Demand

Gas Stations in Texas This is a photo that I recently took outside of a gas station […]

November 28, 2023
The Paperwork Reduction Act Is Terrible, and We Should Eliminate or Reform It

by Stuart Buck The Paperwork Reduction Act sounds boring and tedious, but it’s actually quite fascinating: it […]