when you realize, you just have to go through your own archive to find the answer. back at funding.

When the Defense Department issued a $19,800 contract on December 6, 1967, for the purpose of studying the "design and specification of a computer network," the world didn't take notice. But it should have. (fcc history project)

arpa report: history of arpanet, first decade, completion report, 1978

the future of computer science research in the us, 2005. statement of anthony j. tether, director of darpa.

President Kennedy would not have been as bullish when we said we are going to the Moon in 1969 if he didn't already know that the Saturn Rocket was there to have that possibility. That was DARPA's fifth project when it started ...

Mundane things during the Vietnam War like the M–16 rifle was a DARPA program all of the way to Global Hawk, Predator.

projects: putting atomic clock on a chip, laser diodes, getting titanium down to less than $2 a pound, building prosthetic that is controlled by the mind, a new high performance computing systems (HPCS), cognitive processing, ...

Now when Bill Gates a couple years ago was out on the stump trying to gin up support for computer science and kids were asking him questions, and they said, ''What's in it?'' What is the next biggest thing that we could be in this business? He said that if we can show how to have a computer that learns, that will be worth more than 10 Microsofts. (tether) ...

Okay. Upcoming key events. For those of you that really want to hear about DARPA, we have a symposium in August. It is in Anaheim. It is open to the world, foreigners. Why Anaheim? It is Disneyland. Where else would you have a DARPA conference, right?