As this approach reveals, it is no accident that Intel’s research organization
today is run by David Tennenhouse. Tennenhouse used to
manage research programs at the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA). DARPA directed the research activities of numerous
disparate research organizations and linked them into powerful research
programs for the U.S. military. By many accounts, DARPA performed
this role very effectively. And DARPA did this coordination without its
own central laboratory. Intel hopes to apply much of the DARPA model
to accessing, influencing, and coordinating university research for industrial
purposes.