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Lovley's unyielding faith in the microbe's potential, along with financial backing from the Department of Energy and the military think tank DARPA, has expanded his lab from five scientists to more than 50 today. Daniel Bond, who has won accolades for his work in Lovley's lab, says his colleague's creativity comes from an ability to straddle different disciplines in his work. Says Bond: "Derek really appreciates a good unsolved problem." And the rest of us can appreciate Lovley's ingenious answers...
...London show that the possibility of a bioterror attack is not fantasy. British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that such an attack was "present and real and with us now." All the more reason to develop effective vaccines and antidotes - fast. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down are doing just that. They say that a protective nasal spray like the one described above could be a few years away. Coley Pharmaceutical Group, a U.S. firm working with both military agencies, says preclinical data show that...
...security - personal security. Critics of the HSD proposal say the legislation would permit the government virtually unfettered access to private information exchanged between U.S. citizens. The computer system in question is called "Total Information Awareness" and it is being run out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which is in turn part of the Information Awareness Office. The software, according to reports by the New York Times, would allow government surveillance of e-mail, credit card and banking records and travel documents. While more extensive legislation is needed to completely open the floodgates of heretofore private information...
Unfortunately, programming such a machine calls for some conceptual gymnastics that even computer scientists find difficult to perform. According + to a DARPA report, only one in three De fense Department programmers can make the leap. Says Larry Smarr, director of the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois: "We have 40 years' experience designing software for single-processor machines. But the software for these new machines is complicated and excruciatingly hard to write...
...Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in artificial-intelligence research, and Claude Shannon, the father of the statistical theory of information. By last week Hillis' company had taken orders for seven of its new computers, ranging in price from $1 million to $3 million: two each from M.I.T., Perkin-Elmer and DARPA, and one from Yale University...