new CMU institute

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2 total messages Started by E.C.R. Hehner Fri, 07 Dec 1984 20:16

#372

Author: E.C.R. Hehner
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1984 20:16

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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.

Re: new CMU institute

#373

Author: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1984 21:54

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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...
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

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