
Chris Smeenk reviews Accelerating Expansion, by Gordon Belot
Chris Smeenk reviews Accelerating Expansion, by Gordon Belot
Richard Pettigrew reviews Right Belief and True Belief, by Daniel J Singer
ARPA's early decades of success have made the ARPA model iconic. Big wins from ARPA’s early history include autonomous vehicles, the internet, and stealth aircraft technology. Inspired by these successes, scientific grant funders are increasingly emulating the ARPA PM approach to R&D funding.
Felipe De Brigard reviews The Entangled Brain, by Luiz Pessoa
Travis McKenna reviews Humean Laws for Human Agents, edited by Michael Townsen Hicks, Siegfried Jaag and Christian Loew
Kelvin J McQueen reviews A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics, by Steven French
Michael Bishop reviews Scientific Epistemology, by Hilary Kornblith
Marion Godman reviews Of Maybugs and Men, by Pieter R Adriaens &
Bottom Line Up Front: Recently, large pots of federal funds have been set aside for chip research. A significant portion of these funds should find their way to research teams that operate like the best research groups from the prior, vertically-integrated era. Two ideal teams to learn from are BBN — the prime ARPAnet contractor — and CMU’s early autonomous vehicle teams, who laid much of the groundwork for the autonomous vehicle revolution.
Katherine Valde reviews Mechanisms in Science, by Stavros Ioannidis &
Richard Pettigrew reviews Optimality Justifications, by Gerhard Schurz