On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 08:41:13AM -0400, Ted Smith wrote: > Until you can find a better funding source in the US than the DoD, > that's a reality we'll all have to live with. > > You should try calling your congressperson and asking them to support > legislation to defund the military-industrial complex and fund the NSF, > which is the other main source of grants in computer science.
Oh hey, funny you should mention that. We have an NSF grant, joint with Georgia Tech and Princeton, to work on measuring censorship, evaluating censorship circumvention approaches, and general work in the Internet censorship area: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1111539 It's $750k split over 4 years, so it's not as much as the darpa grant, but hopefully will still help diversify a little bit (I say a little bit because it's still US government funding, just from a different piece). And if all goes well we'll soon be a subcontractor for Nick Hopper's research lab at University of Minnesota, to help him work on privacy-preserving ways to measure Tor user and user behavior. These measurements will especially help researchers who do performance, scalability, and anonymity analysis on Tor to have a more accurate model of user behavior -- which would have been especially useful in e.g. "Methodically Modeling the Tor Network": http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#cset12-modeling In the past, you could have read about these two grants in https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-December/026891.html aka https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2012-December/000104.html --Roger -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk