“I think we are in trouble.” “Years ago, people took a long-range view to research. There was high-risk research with the potential for big payoffs. That's no longer the case.” “Traditionally funding in computer sciences has come from the U.S. government.” (i.e., the U.S. taxpayers - my italics) “And it's contributed to some remarkable advances, such as the Internet and artificial intelligence. They (the government) used to step back and with some direction let you go develop something new. But that's not the case today. And DARPA is no longer thinking long-range.”
- Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science, University of California at Los Angeles (Marguerite Reardon, CNET, 11/08/05).
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