I was at UC (from 1988 through 2002). The DARPA funding was when I worked for Donald Glaser. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the early 60's for inventing the bubble chamber. When I worked for him in the early 90's, he was doing research on Vision/Perception/The Brain, so you can see how that could possibly translate to something weapons-related. I don't recall at this point which specific project it was that was funded by DARPA. It wasn't a big one. The big one there was an NSF project, IIRC. Over the years, most of the projects I worked on were funded by NSF. But I also got paid in part by NIH, CTR (Council for Tobacco Research), DoE (Dept. of Education), NSIC (National Storage Industry Consortium), DoD, and several others. The funding will depend on exactly which dept. one works in. And even when I worked in Education (which one would think would be far from science and weapons), I was working for someone who did research on Science and Math instruction, so it was usually NSF. And the rest of the time I worked for science or computer science departments, so weapons research was never terribly far away.
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Date: 2003-02-24 02:59 pm (UTC)