IARPA and Reynard
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Incisive Analysis Office has just released its "Reynard "Broad Agency Announcement" which "sets forth research areas of interest in the area of identifying behavioral indicators in Virtual Worlds (VWs) and Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) that are predictive of real world characteristics of the users."
Lots of TN authors mentioned in the footnotes, and lots of interesting possibilities to use their money to study VWs…