Talk:JASON Defense Advisory Group

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Much better researched than the Wikipedia article.

http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/JASON_Group.htm

http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/Jason_Group_members_list.htm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.134.206.154 (talk • contribs) 22:46, November 13, 2005.

"NB: The Federation of American Scientists link, above, has reliable information. Otherise, much of what's on the internet about Jason, including the links below [abvoe], is a mix of fact, conjecture, and pure fantasy." (151.196.245.134)

Please go through those webpages and classify statements into fact and fantasy. GangofOne 07:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] book review

See page 21 of the Sunday, April 16, 2006 NYT Book Review "Rent-a-Genius" , where John Horgan provides missing information, e.g., Mildred Goldberger named JASON.204.210.35.48 14:49, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/books/review/16horgan.html reg. req. GangofOne 21:50, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] who were the three?

"DARPA's decision came after Jason's refusal to allow DARPA to select three new Jason members, two of whom were Silicon Valley execs without PhDs and thus "unqualified" by the standards of eminent academics." Who were these 3, and were 2 SV execs? Does Ann Finkbeiner know? GangofOne 23:43, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, she doesn't know. Nobody wanted to embarrass these guys by naming them. Apparently the "Silicon Valley exec" part is true, and apparently the third was an engineer whose credentials didn't rise to stellar. But I know that only from the Jasons, not from these people themselves. ~Ann Finkbeiner

[edit] JASON/Jason

Is it JASONs? Jasons?

The article switches taxonomy throughout.

Just about everybody uses JASONs, including the Jasons themselves. But the name is not an acronym, those letters stand for nothing. It's just the name, the Greek hero, Jason. So I personally don't capitalize. ~Ann Finkbeiner