https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_...
Notably NCSA, which provided the first telnet client, web browser and web server that most people used prior to the DotCom boom.
I think we should absolutely do that. MIT's figure is going to be nowhere close to 60%.
https://web.mit.edu/fnl/vol/155/numbers_research_total.htm
> Most academic CS and IT research in the US is defense-funded, has been all along.
That also is false. It's nowhere close to "most" across all US CS and IT research.
Curious what the Department of Energy grants are about, and what overlap it ends up having with defense purposes if it's nuclear. That's the second biggest source of research funding at 15%. 18+15==33%, still not 60%.
> That also is false. It's nowhere close to "most" across all US CS and IT research.
I'd be curious to see numbers for that too, for MIT CS department(s) specifically, and in general in the US. I have definitely known a lot of CS professors and projects with DARPA and other DoD funding, it is quite common.
And maybe substantially more...
And here we have a $9.6 billion contract (albeit not for just one year, i'm sure) that wasn't included... it does seem like that earlier chart was not very comprehensive.
2020 numbers. DOD is 17%
I wouldn't be surprised if it's similar, but I haven't found it lazily googling.
Most academic CS and IT research in the US is defense-funded, has been all along. Most other countries too. So any reasonable academic home of a web-related entity is likely to have it's research budget be mostly defense funded.