Word: researching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Section 203 of the recently enacted Military Procurement Bill forbids the Defense Department, beginning next year, to fund any research not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function." Does the Cambridge Project in fact have such a relationship...
...Some Harvard professors already are doing individual research with Cambridge Project grants. But Harvard has not yet decided whether to join M.I.T. on the policy board of the Project: the Faculty will debate the issue on January...
...have no obligation to carry out research in any particular substantive area; the choice of topics will depend entirely upon the research interests of Faculty members. And no part of the Cambridge Project work will be classified...
...said that Faculty researchers will be solely responsible for the work they do under the Cambridge Project. But wouldn't the Defense Department be more likely to grant money to the Project in the future if it felt that the Project research had been beneficial to its own interests...
...that's been a problem we face with every funding agency: there is always the question of persuading the funder that you are doing something worthwhile for him. To say that we aren't influenced by the people using our research would be foolish, but this is a fair bargain between two parties: very often, contact with practical applications is quite fruitful for academics...