DARPA Severs Ties with Jason 14
An anonymous reader submits: "DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has
severed its ties with a secretive advisory panel of elite scientists
called Jason."
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (7) Well, it's an excellent idea, but it would make the compilers too hard to write.
Re:Help, I think I'm being fucked (Score:3, Funny)
Geez, "put the kibosh"? The only person I know who talks like that is my grandpa!
Grandpa, is that you?
Re:Jason?? (Score:3, Funny)
Jason needs a CIO (Score:1)
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Though Darpa refused yesterday to confirm the dispute over the nominees, a spokeswoman said the move was in fact a reflection of Jason's inability to adjust its priorities to a post-cold-war world, where the physical sciences are no longer as important as information and computer sciences to the nation's security.
Wow. You can be a nobel laureate but without your MS Certification, you're out of a government job!
NPR had a bit on this (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:NPR had a bit on this (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:NPR had a bit on this (Score:3, Interesting)
No doubt. I suspect that the Pentagon wants more control over the makeup of JASON (named after the first letters of the months of the annual contract term - July to November) with it's own appointees and is using the lack of relevant research in recent years as an excuse to seek this kind of control.
Personally, I think some pure research is always a healthy thing, even if the results are not immediately applicable.
Yes! (Score:4, Funny)
Jason members (Score:2)