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Posted 07 April 2008 - 03:40 PM

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The Idea Factory That Spawned the Internet Turns 50

By Stephen Barr
Monday, April 7, 2008

The best program managers are "freewheeling zealots" with big ideas. The staff has been called "100 geniuses connected by a travel agent." And the boss describes his agency as a home for "radical innovation."

It's DARPA -- the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a dinner for 1,700 alumni, friends and partners Thursday night in Washington.
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