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Then computer security. Unlike the internet or jet engines, these have not panned out as foundational research (except perhaps for some of HIV)

In what word is computer security not a foundational topic? There's lots of reasons to critique the way NSF/NIH/DOD/etc allocate funding, but this is definitely not one of them.




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