{"id":1597,"date":"2007-08-02T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T22:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2007-08-02T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T22:16:31","slug":"arpa-is-the-new-lowercase-letter-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/08\/02\/arpa-is-the-new-lowercase-letter-i\/","title":{"rendered":"ARPA is the New Lowercase Letter &#034;i&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the America COMPETEs act is making its way out of Congress (See here).  One interesting part of the science and technology legislature being considered is the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/science.house.gov\/legislation\/leg_highlights_detail.aspx?NewsID=1235\">ARPA-E<\/a>, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (initial budget of $300M.)  Similarly, a while back (former) Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte discussed an intelligence effort called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/intell\/library\/news\/2006\/intell-060925-dni01.htm\">IARPA<\/a>.  Both of these names are in reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\">DARPA<\/a>, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which used to be called just ARPA and was responsible for funding the ARPANET which eventually became the Internet (A minor funding sucesss, you might say \ud83d\ude42 )<br \/>\nHmm, it seems to me that ARPA is the new lower case letter &#8220;i&#8221; (&#8220;i&#8221; being the new lowercase &#8220;e&#8221;, of course.)  Anyone seen any more ARPAs out in the wild?  More importantly, when will I get my ARPAphone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the America COMPETEs act is making its way out of Congress (See here). One interesting part of the science and technology legislature being considered is the creation of ARPA-E, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (initial budget of $300M.) Similarly, a while back (former) Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte discussed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/08\/02\/arpa-is-the-new-lowercase-letter-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ARPA is the New Lowercase Letter &#034;i&#034;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}