The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs Paperback - 2010
by Belfiore, Michael
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- Title The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
- Author Belfiore, Michael
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedAcceptable
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, NY
- Date 2010-11-02
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ028GF5_ns
- ISBN 9780062000651 / 0062000659
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.32 x 0.73 in (20.32 x 13.51 x 1.85 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Science and state - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.070
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From the rear cover
America's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower in response to Sputnik and the Soviet space program, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) mixes military officers with sneaker-wearing scientists, seeking paradigm-shifting ideas in varied fields--from energy, robotics, and rockets to doctorless operating rooms, driverless cars, and planes that can fly halfway around the world in just a few hours.
Michael Belfiore was given unpre-cedented access to write this first-ever popular account of DARPA. The Department of Mad Scientists contains material that has barely been reported in the general media--in fact, only 2 percent of Americans know much of anything about the agency. But as this fascinating read demonstrates, DARPA isn't so much frightening as it is inspiring--it is our future.
