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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]
IBM wins Darpa cognitive-computing contract
News IBM and five university partners have been awarded a Darpa contract to work on a cognitive-computing project that will, essentially, attempt to simulate the brain's power and efficiency. The IBM project, just the first phase in Darpa's long-term...
[November 20, 2008, 16:49]
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]
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]
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]
The scary secret of 'black fibre'
Talkback They run 'black light', harvested by probes launched in the 1960s to the nearest quantum singularity and used by DARPA, the American military high-tech agency. Being black light, it's completely immune to all attempts at interception, so the DARPA...
[January 14, 2009, 16:26]
Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers Little was done to evaluate computer Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) prior to the evaluations conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory under the sponsorship of the DARPA in 1998.
[June 19, 2008, 1:01]
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]
Automatic Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems
White Papers Toward this end, DARPA provided in 1998, 1999 and 2000 an Intrusion Detection Evaluation Data Set. However, no new data set has been released by DARPA since 2000, in part because of the cumbersomeness of the task.
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
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]
