DARPA director goes on the offensive in defending his record & his agency.(Clash Of Titans)

From: Manufacturing & Technology News | Date: May 20, 2005| Author: McCormack, Richard | Copyright information

The director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) testily confronted two important leaders at a House Science Committee hearing, declaring that the computer science community is misinformed about what's happening at his agency.

After two hours of give-and-take between DARPA Director Tony Tether and Wm. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering and Thomson Leighton, chairman of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PIT...

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