# See ya later John Poindexter, it's been real...

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2003-08-14T07:26:42Z


This may be old news for many of you, but I just found out that John Poindexter, the mastermind behind the "Total Information Awareness" project in the US, tendered his resignation August 12.Government Computer NewsJohn Poindexter’s whirlwind 20 months as head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s newly created Office of Information Awareness will end on Aug. 29, the day he will officially step down. 

A PDF of his resignation letter on the Washington Post site.

Thanks to twostop on #joiito





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