by Michael Belfiore | Nov 23, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
One of the listeners of my recent NPR interview has taken me to task for suggesting that DARPA (the subject of my new book) was crucial to the development of the Global Positioning System.Roger Easton, Jr., professor at the Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 17, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
You can now hear me on demand, talking about my new book on DARPA, The Department of Mad Scientists, on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.http://bit.ly/4EVBr9Also on that page is the opening of the first chapter, which is about DARPA’s...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 9, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
Check out this video from a group of National Instruments engineers who rigged up a remote controlled car with an iPhone as the controller.NI press rep Trisha McDonell tells me there are practical uses for this project: “these applications can help in autonomous...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 29, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
Seed magazine has posted an excerpt from my new book about DARPA in honor of today’s anniversary of the first connection on the Internet.No, no, it wasn’t Al Gore who created the Internet. It was the Advanced Research Projects Agency, today known as DARPA....
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 24, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
My book on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now available in print, electronic, and audio form.The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Shaping Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs is the first mass market book on the...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 15, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
The Quantum to Cosmos Festival starts today in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It’s ten days of presentations, panel discussions, movies, demos, and a whole lot more sponsored by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.You can catch most of the events live...
