| Yeah, it's crazy to see how much has been funded by DARPA in particular: https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/darpa-history-and-timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA#Projects Some of the greatest hits, at least from my perspective: The ARPANET -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET The mother of all demos (GUIs, mouses, word processors, video conferences, windows, version control, etc) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos BSD OSes -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Project Tor/.onion routing -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing Siri -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO Boston Dynamics robots -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(robot) High productivity computing systems -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Productivity_Computing_Sy... Autonomous vehicles research -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge Software-based approaches to biology/cancer research -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_mechanism The precursor to GPS -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_(satellite) Shakey the Robot -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakey_the_robot |