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Robot Meets Robot In 'Darpa City' Race
News The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, raised the green flag on Saturday on 11 driverless cars to manoeuvre through a 60-mile course at the former George Air Force Base in Oro Grande, California — or what race officials dubbed...
[November 6, 2007, 10:51]
OpenBSD Releases Version 3.3
News The latest version of the popular OpenBSD operating system was released today, despite the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) pulling its funding to the group last month. The statement described new security features of the...
[May 1, 2003, 11:25]
Could XMax Change The World Of Broadband?
Talkback As a person formerly associated with DARPA's XG program, I'll respond to the previous question by saying "So far as DARPA or the current lead XG performer (see ) knows, the company xG Technology and their xMax technology are wholly unrelated to...
[April 9, 2006, 23:47]
Could XMax Change The World Of Broadband?
Talkback Is this a pup of the DARPA XG radio project? www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/XG/ If so it has a very big brother in the background.
[March 29, 2006, 20:27]
US Announces Global Intellectual-property Plan
Talkback Er, a lot of the basic infrastructure that we call the Internet was invented in Switzerland by an Englishman " oh, i always wondered who that "Darpa" guy was.huh.i guess he was a bloke like us.that's good to know.the www was created by a CERN...
[October 1, 2005, 4:52]
IBM's Low-powered PC Quest
News While not every researcher works on DARPA-sponsored projects, those at the Low Power Center are working to create super-dense and energy-efficient computing clusters, groups of networked computers that are usually stacked together in a rack.
[August 7, 2002, 10:25]
Robotic Cars To Race From LA To Vegas
News The agency wants one-third of all combat vehicles to be able to operate unmanned by 2015, according to Don Shipley, a spokesman for the Darpa Grand Challenge. Darpa will hold future contests involving different types of vehicles and technological...
[July 28, 2003, 13:11]
Robot Race Draws Crowd
News DARPA will award $1m (£0.59m) to the team of inventors that comes up with a robotic car that can drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on an off-road course in 10 hours. The agency wants one third of all combat vehicles to be able to operate unmanned...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
Pentagon Data-mining Raises Eyebrows
News I remain very deeply concerned that TIA technology will be used to plow through large amounts of private information on individual Americans in the United States in search of hypothetical threat situations," Wyden said in a three-page letter to...
[June 25, 2003, 13:37]
Internet Pioneers Get US Honour
News Cerf and Kahn developed the TCP in 1973 for the US military while working for the DARPA. After working for DARPA for 13 years, Kahn became chairman, chief executive and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), a not...
[November 7, 2005, 8:15]
Robots: It's Intel Inside
News In early 2004, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA) will hold the DARPA Grand Challenge, under which researchers will race robots from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on an off-road and on-road course.
[March 20, 2003, 13:15]
Americans Reject Antiterrorism Database
News Members of the closed-door joint committee decided to keep the language that restricted the budget for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), saying they were "concerned about the activities of the Information Awareness Office, and...
[September 26, 2003, 9:15]
US Tech Research Faces Crisis
News It formed DARPA to fund high-risk, high-reward research. Today, DARPA and the National Science Foundation fund a large portion of the academic IT research in the US, say research experts. For years following the creation of DARPA, innovation in US...
[November 10, 2005, 14:55]
Conservatives Defend Pentagon Surveillance Plan
News They would permit dozens of grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to be fully funded if DARPA sends Congress a "schedule for proposed research and development" that includes a privacy evaluation, or if President George W.
[April 3, 2003, 8:29]
Homeland Security Bill Becomes US Law
News But civil liberties groups are concerned about the impact the law will have on privacy, especially when linked with a pair of controversial projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
US Budgets $1bn For Homeland Security IT
News If HSarpa sounds strikingly similar to the Pentagon's Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, it's no accident. But Alexander said a big difference between HSarpa and Darpa, besides their separate areas of focus, is that her group is...
[August 1, 2003, 8:50]
Pentagon Database To Spy On Americans
News A DARPA representative on Thursday declined to provide additional details about funding or on what the projects entail, saying the proposals would not be made public. This is an area that I need to refer you directly to DARPA," the Veridian...
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
Software Tweak May Make Operating Systems Safer
News The research was funded by a $2.3m (about £1.5m) grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the OpenBSD Project, but the latest changes go beyond the original grant request, de Raadt said.
[April 14, 2003, 8:43]
Ultimate Road-warrior Tech At CeBIT
News Caroline, the Volkwagen Passat from the Technische Universitat Braunswchweig that drove itself in the Darpa challenge is headed in the right direction. Caroline may not have quite completed the Darpa challenge, but it managed a respectable seventh...
[March 7, 2008, 11:36]
The Linux Car That Drives Itself
News The car was a finalist in the legendary Darpa Grand Challenge, a US Defence Department-sponsored competition held every year or two in which driverless vehicles battle it out to see which can complete a set course in the fastest time.
[March 5, 2008, 14:16]
