[LINK] InnAus: 'CSIRO boss explains why seL4 team was dumped'

[Roger Clarke]

> On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 at 15:07, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
>> CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall has explained why the agency
>> sensationally dumped the team behind the seL4 microkernel, saying he did
>> not believe it was feasible to spin out the research in Australia and
>> that it didn’t fit with the agency’s new focus on AI.

On 6/7/21 4:40 pm, Christian Heinrich wrote:
> The upcoming https://wp.csiro.au/ai-cyber focuses the old (Cyber) on
> the new (AI) :)
> The link was published by someone else on Discord.

Yep - the 2020s version of 'cloud-seeding'.

Particularly ironic given that the starting-gun was fired in 1955, and
there have been cyclical 'AI Winters' ever since.


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