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An Interview with Jano Costard, Head of Challenges at SPRIN-D
An Interview with Jano Costard, Head of Challenges at SPRIN-D
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
An Interview with Jano Costard, Head of Challenges at SPRIN-D
Wanted: New Instruments to Fund BBNs • A guest post by Alex Obadia
Wanted: New Instruments to Fund BBNs
A guest post by Alex Obadia
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Wanted: New Instruments to Fund BBNs • A guest post by Alex Obadia
An Oral History Interview with ARIA CEO Ilan Gur
An Oral History Interview with ARIA CEO Ilan Gur
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
An Oral History Interview with ARIA CEO Ilan Gur
An Oral History Interview with ARIA CEO Ilan Gur [Transcript] • The full transcript accompanying today’s interview, for those who just want to read the interview, not watch/listen to it
An Oral History Interview with ARIA CEO Ilan Gur [Transcript]
The full transcript accompanying today’s interview, for those who just want to read the interview, not watch/listen to it
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
An Oral History Interview with ARIA CEO Ilan Gur [Transcript] • The full transcript accompanying today’s interview, for those who just want to read the interview, not watch/listen to it
My Appearance on the Foresight Institute Podcast • Where I discuss Bell Labs systems engineers, giving away $100 million like Warren Weaver, and more.
My Appearance on the Foresight Institute Podcast
Where I discuss Bell Labs systems engineers, giving away $100 million like Warren Weaver, and more.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
My Appearance on the Foresight Institute Podcast • Where I discuss Bell Labs systems engineers, giving away $100 million like Warren Weaver, and more.
A Category Theory-Inspired BBN • How the Topos Institute tackles problems in complex systems
A Category Theory-Inspired BBN
How the Topos Institute tackles problems in complex systems
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A Category Theory-Inspired BBN • How the Topos Institute tackles problems in complex systems
A New Chapter At FreakTakes • An applied research shop becomes a bit more applied
A New Chapter At FreakTakes
An applied research shop becomes a bit more applied
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A New Chapter At FreakTakes • An applied research shop becomes a bit more applied
Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory • How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.
Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory
How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory • How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.
A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA • Three variables that mark key regime changes in ARPA history
A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA
Three variables that mark key regime changes in ARPA history
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA • Three variables that mark key regime changes in ARPA history
A Scrappy Complement to FROs: Building More BBNs
A Scrappy Complement to FROs: Building More BBNs
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A Scrappy Complement to FROs: Building More BBNs
Everything Old is New Again: Old research models for new-era semiconductor research • Alternative Title — How to optimally build at the top: the case for BBN-model orgs
Everything Old is New Again: Old research models for new-era semiconductor research
Alternative Title — How to optimally build at the top: the case for BBN-model orgs
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Everything Old is New Again: Old research models for new-era semiconductor research • Alternative Title — How to optimally build at the top: the case for BBN-model orgs
Managing Lockheed’s Skunk Works • And Many Stories About the Maleffects of Bureaucracy on R&D
Managing Lockheed’s Skunk Works
And Many Stories About the Maleffects of Bureaucracy on R&D
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Managing Lockheed’s Skunk Works • And Many Stories About the Maleffects of Bureaucracy on R&D
Lessons Answer.AI can learn from history’s greatest R&D labs
Lessons Answer.AI can learn from history’s greatest R&D labs
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Lessons Answer.AI can learn from history’s greatest R&D labs
An Interview with Chuck Thorpe on CMU: Operating an autonomous vehicle research powerhouse
An Interview with Chuck Thorpe on CMU: Operating an autonomous vehicle research powerhouse
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
An Interview with Chuck Thorpe on CMU: Operating an autonomous vehicle research powerhouse
The Autonomous Land Vehicle, Pilot's Associate, and Battle Management • Three North Star Applications Projects from DARPA's Strategic Computing Portfolio
The Autonomous Land Vehicle, Pilot's Associate, and Battle Management
Three North Star Applications Projects from DARPA's Strategic Computing Portfolio
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Autonomous Land Vehicle, Pilot's Associate, and Battle Management • Three North Star Applications Projects from DARPA's Strategic Computing Portfolio
Strategic Computing's Machine Acquisition Program
Strategic Computing's Machine Acquisition Program
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Strategic Computing's Machine Acquisition Program
ILLIAC IV and the Connection Machine • DARPA's varied approaches to developing early parallel computers
ILLIAC IV and the Connection Machine
DARPA's varied approaches to developing early parallel computers
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
ILLIAC IV and the Connection Machine • DARPA's varied approaches to developing early parallel computers
Coming Soon...Diving into ARPA History
Coming Soon...Diving into ARPA History
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November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Coming Soon...Diving into ARPA History