An Interview with Jano Costard, Head of Challenges at SPRIN-D
The Spotify version of today’s episode can be found at this link.| www.freaktakes.com
The Spotify version of today’s episode can be found at this link.| www.freaktakes.com
An applied research shop becomes a bit more applied| www.freaktakes.com
ARPA's early decades of success have made the ARPA model iconic.| www.freaktakes.com
Alternative Title — How to optimally build at the top: the case for BBN-model orgs| www.freaktakes.com
And Many Stories About the Maleffects of Bureaucracy on R&D| www.freaktakes.com
Listen now | The centerpiece of today’s post is an extensive interview with Chuck Thorpe. Thorpe, now President of Clarkson University, spent over two decades at Carnegie Mellon University. These years were largely spent as a student, project manager, and PI working on Carnegie Mellon’s autonomous vehicle vision research. The primary goal of the interview was to better understand how he and others managed systems contracts at CMU — CMU had a strong comparative advantage in this style of...| www.freaktakes.com
We’ve all heard that “DARPA invented the Internet.” But few have heard of BBN, the contractor that did the most work to bring the ARPAnet into existence.| www.freaktakes.com
Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer| www.freaktakes.com
This piece is noticeably longer (twice the length) than the others on this Substack.| www.freaktakes.com
Three North Star Applications Projects from DARPA's Strategic Computing Portfolio| www.freaktakes.com
This piece is an accompaniment to today’s MOSIS piece.| www.freaktakes.com
This was initially a section of my larger Bell Labs post.| www.freaktakes.com
