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...other reasons for Harvard to be extremely wary of joining the Cambridge Project It is highly unlikelythat the Defense Department would spend $7.7 billion on a project which it didn't think would benefit it in some way. Although the Cambridge Project does involve methodological rather than applied research, the methodologies it develops could prove quite useful later in Defense Department strategy-making. And the present role of the Defense Department in the world is far from a benevolent...
...half-share of $7.7 million in Defense Department money for computer research, some say. would alter significantly the entire nature of the social sciences at Harvard. Dean Ford said in September that joining the Project "would involve a considerable shift in emphasis in one or several parts of the Faculty ... this is not unlike setting up a new department...
...Brooks subcommittee may have been correct in its statement "that the development of computer-based techniques and substantive research [is important for the future of the social sciences at Harvard." But. in light of the many serious issues raised by the Cambridge Project. the way the University handled the matter seems incredibly shortsighted...
Pusey and Ford agreed in September that the Committee on Research Policy-not the Faculty would represent Faculty opinion on the Cambridge Project to the Corporation. That Committee appointed the eight-man Brooks subcommittee to investigate the Project and report back its findings...
Several subcommittee members seem to have had a definite stake in opting for the Project Chairman Brooks is dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. which receives over 60 per cent of its research money from the Defense Department. Members of both the Psychology Department and the Center for the Behavioral Sciences-headed by subcommittee members Richard J. Herrnstein and Edward L. Pattntlo. respectively-are applying to the Cambridge Project for funding...