[Air-l] Re: is this internet studies?
Irina Shklovski
irinas+ at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Dec 22 09:30:57 PST 2003
I am wondering what David means by the term "Internet studies". The
military has been one of the largest supporters of technology research in
general and Lee is right, ARPAnet was a military research project. Now one
of the largest military projects is "semantic web". Something that might,
in the future, be as integral to our lives as Internet now is (in my
opinion, semantic web, is part of the Internet studies as well). The
military also happens to be one of the largest backers of research in
general. I do not think as a field, we have a choice of whether our field
is funded, at least in part, with military money. We have that choice only
as individual researchers, when we choose which grants to apply for and
accept.
My other concern is David's statement that this direction is new. The USC
institute - the Institute of Creative Technologies - has been in existence
for at least 5 years. This direction is not new. If anything, its come full
circle.
Irina Shklovski
Graduate Researcher
Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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Irina Shklovski
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Carnegie Mellon University
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