Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency


Sign Of The Times

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jul 1, 1990

Government agency fires head of DARPA because of a risky investment deal.  Read story

The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines

By Gary A. Taubes |  Sep 15, 1995

A close up look at a doomed-yet-brilliant start-up computer company that never quite grasped the basics of business.  Read story

How to Avoid Scammers, Spammer and the Rest of the Bad E-guys

By John Fried |  Oct 1, 2005

Before anything else, you need to know who the bad guys are and how to keep them the hell out.  Read story

Is the Internet Doomed?

By Charles C. Mann |  Jun 15, 1995

A close up look at some of the problems businesses should consider before they start using the Internet.  Read story

What Start-ups Don't Need Is Money

By Richard Florida |  Apr 1, 1994

Making the federal government a venture capitalist won't fix America's technology woes, says author.  Read story

Uncle Sam Wants You -- To Do Rd For Defense

Jun 1, 1981

The Department of Defense, which has long relied on large companies for the bulk of its purchases, recently turned an eye to small businesses for research...  Read story

Department Of Defense Small Business Advanced Technology Program (desat)

Aug 1, 1981

Phase I: The DoD expects to award approximately 100 contracts of up to $50,000 each for feasibility research carried out over six months. Phase II: ...  Read story

Death to Cool

By Leigh Buchanan |  Jul 1, 2003

For years, iRobot designed stuff cool enough for the Sci-Fi Channel, but its new product sells on the Home Shopping Network. Here's how a boutique high-tech ...  Read story

If At First You Don't Succeed

By Hillary Johnson |  Jul 1, 2003

How my father tried to reconcile his big ideas with a small-minded world.  Read story

The Innovation Factor: Innovative Minds

By Inc Staff |  Sep 1, 2002

Who innovates? A look at the personalities (and brains) behind America's most creative businesses.  Read story

Barbarians at the Watergate

By Samuel Fromartz |  May 15, 2000

It may have taken awhile, but Washington society is finally adjusting to a new breed: the fast-moving, different-thinking, so very dot-com riche.   Read story

Blind Ambition

By Edward O. Welles |  Nov 1, 1989

Two companies fight over the patent rights to fiber optic HDTV (high-definition television).  Read story

Star Wars, Inc.

By JAY FINEGAN |  Apr 1, 1987

Whether it's ever even deployed, the space shield is already a $19-billion growth industry  Read story

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