Pretty fucking successful - started in 1958 and you had The mother of all Demos in 1968 with the first mouse, shakey the robot, the first space-based navigation satellite, and first weather satellite.
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§ARPA model
Anybody attempting to emulate DARPA needs to be willing to sit with a lot of discomfort for a long time
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