“I’m worried and depressed,” said David Patterson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who is president of the Association of Computing Machinery, an industry and academic trade group. “I think there will be great technologies that won’t be there down the road when we need them.”

This little bit of sunshine comes from a Saturday New York Times article on DARPA’s shift away from open-ended basic computer science research and toward “more classified work and narrowly defined projects that promise a more immediate payoff. ” NSF’s Peter Freeman and PITAC’s cybersecurity report put in appearances.

The money (literally) quote:

[DARPA officials] revealed that within a relatively steady budget for computer science research that rose slightly from $546 million in 2001 to $583 million last year, the portion going to university researchers has fallen from $214 million to $123 million.

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