Archive - FreakTakes

A New Chapter At FreakTakes

An applied research shop becomes a bit more applied

Jan 10 •

Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory

How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.

Published on Asimov Press • Jan 5

December 2024

A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA

Three variables that mark key regime changes in ARPA history

Dec 31, 2024 •

October 2024

A Scrappy Complement to FROs: Building More BBNs

ARPA's early decades of success have made the ARPA model iconic.

Oct 15, 2024 •

May 2024

Everything Old is New Again: Old research models for new-era semiconductor research

Alternative Title — How to optimally build at the top: the case for BBN-model orgs

May 28, 2024 •

March 2024

Managing Lockheed’s Skunk Works

And Many Stories About the Maleffects of Bureaucracy on R&D

Mar 7, 2024 •

January 2024

December 2023

“The Third University of Cambridge”: BBN and the Development of the ARPAnet

We’ve all heard that “DARPA invented the Internet.” But few have heard of BBN, the contractor that did the most work to bring the ARPAnet into…

Dec 14, 2023 •

November 2023

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