Comment Ah love... (Score 1) 323
could you and I, not with fate, conspire
to break this sorry scheme of things entire
could we not shatter it to bits and then
remold it nearer to our heart's desire!
- The Internet Swansong
More seriously, this is just a PR news item for a piddly little grant of $200K. MIT researchers routinely engage in this kind of vaporware research including much-hyped off-their-bottoms position papers in tight community-knit workshops.
NSF routinely awards much larger grants greater than $500K and very often even more than $1 million on collaborative grants. None of them make news, but this one does because Dave Clark is soooooo good at PR. Of course, as the article says, the program managers refused to talk to this reporter because they knew what it was worth -- nothing!!
For more info, search for recent awards on http://www.nsf.gov/
to break this sorry scheme of things entire
could we not shatter it to bits and then
remold it nearer to our heart's desire!
- The Internet Swansong
More seriously, this is just a PR news item for a piddly little grant of $200K. MIT researchers routinely engage in this kind of vaporware research including much-hyped off-their-bottoms position papers in tight community-knit workshops.
NSF routinely awards much larger grants greater than $500K and very often even more than $1 million on collaborative grants. None of them make news, but this one does because Dave Clark is soooooo good at PR. Of course, as the article says, the program managers refused to talk to this reporter because they knew what it was worth -- nothing!!
For more info, search for recent awards on http://www.nsf.gov/
