hehner@utcsrgv.UUCP (E.C.R. Hehner) (12/07/84)
Carnegie-Mellon University has won a large amount of money from the U.S. Department of Defense to establish a Software Engineering Institute. To get it, they lobbied heavily, including a "phone your congressman" campaign, and a promise to train AND EMPLOY laid-off steelworkers in the institute.. The Wall Street Journal says the following: "Saying that its special computer needs are often misunderstood by industry, The Defense Department wants to create a university-based Software Engineering Institute that would develop new ways to make defense software. Last week [Oct.11-17], Congress authorized $8 million to pay for the first year of the project. The Pentagon plans to spend $103 million on the institute over the next five years." I say CMU has sold its integrity and created another laboratory of death.
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (12/08/84)
CMU's Computer Science Department has always given the impression of being
a wholly-owned subsidiary of DoD. I don't see anything striking about the
new announcement...
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