Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, April 1, 2014
If you know about the history of the Internet, you know that -- while Al Gore might be most famous for supposedly inventing it -- it is the Department of Defense that can probably lay claim in earnest. The Advanced Research Projects Agency began building the networks that would become the Internet in the 1960s. And today the current form of that organization, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is launching an office that will focus on biological technology -- making synthetic tissues, quickly developing vaccines and connecting the brains of wounded soldiers to new prosthesis.
If you know about the history of the Internet, you know that — while Al Gore might be most famous for supposedly inventing it — it is the Department of Defense that can probably lay claim in earnest. The Advanced Research Projects Agency began building the networks that would become the Internet in the 1960s. And today the current form of that organization, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is launching an office that will focus on biological technology — making synthetic tissues, quickly developing vaccines and connecting the brains of wounded soldiers to new prosthesis.
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