Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!hehner From: hehner@utcsrgv.UUCP (E.C.R. Hehner) Newsgroups: general,ut.general Subject: new CMU institute Message-ID: <575@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 15:16:54 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.575 Posted: Fri Dec 7 15:16:54 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 15:44:41 EST Distribution: ut Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 15 Carnegie-Mellon University has won a large amount of money from the U.S. Department of Defense to establish a Software Engineering Institute. To get it, they lobbied heavily, including a "phone your congressman" campaign, and a promise to train AND EMPLOY laid-off steelworkers in the institute.. The Wall Street Journal says the following: "Saying that its special computer needs are often misunderstood by industry, The Defense Department wants to create a university-based Software Engineering Institute that would develop new ways to make defense software. Last week [Oct.11-17], Congress authorized $8 million to pay for the first year of the project. The Pentagon plans to spend $103 million on the institute over the next five years." I say CMU has sold its integrity and created another laboratory of death.