>> 
> Call me cynical but....
> 

A tad bit - yes.

> If it has serious commercial potential, academics may be doing the 
> research, but saving the results for their side/spinout companies.
> 

I disagree. At UMD, we moved research out to a spinout (Komoku). We also moved 
research from the spinout back into UMD (Nick Petroni's thesis). Nick 
formalized and extended the work we were doing at Komoku to automatically 
identify semantic integrity invariants via source code analysis. At Komoku, we 
were finding memory invariants via winbag and ad-hoc (but fruitful) methods.

I think you may find the same situation at GaTech with Wenke Lee and Damballa. 
Wenke published a fair amount prior to Denballa, and he still is.

> The really interesting research (or least the well funded-research) gets 
> funded by DoD, with classified results, and never gets published.
> 

This is changing slowly. DARPA is now starting to fund interesting unclassified 
research, e.g. CINDER and ADAMS. Doug Maughan at DHS has always funded 
interesting unclassified research. NSF has always funded interesting things as 
well.


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