(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. See ARPAnet.
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- What the DoD now says about open source
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by emerging markets
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Open source can save your life
- Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Stanford leads pack of 36 robocars picked for DARPA Urban Challenge
- Robocars for Robocop?I see mobility on demand sooner and robocars later
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Flapping 'nano' aircraft takes flight
- Engineers at Aeronvironment AV of Monrovia, California, have demonstrated the world's first successful flight of the smallest ever self-powered, rudderless, aircraft with flapping wings. The nano air vehicle NAV is modeled after a large insect or small bird, such as a hummingbird. It can hover indoors under...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- 'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfall
- 'Insane' $1.9 million verdict could prove RIAA's downfallI used to really dislike the RIAA......But now. They are my enemy FOREVER. They are a criminal organization no different than the mafia that use something they didnt create, something that scientists and DARPA created and is currently maintained by techology geeks...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-19
- Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban Challenge
- Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban ChallengeCarnegie Melon & Urban ChallengeIndividual winner aside, the contest proved a success for DARPA and for the advancement of robotics technology.RE: Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban ChallengeI want to know what particular chevy parts they modify. I saw the race on Youtube last month,...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Agriculture ripe for change with robot farmhands
- Farmers across the developed world did away with the backbreaking part of the work during the 19th century with the introduction of equipment like tractors and combines. Now, evolving technology is poised to make industrial agriculture greener and more efficient with the use of robots. [caption id=""...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- News to know: Google; Facebook; HP battery recall
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Larry Dignan: Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities Sam Diaz: Google outage...
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Stanford leads pack of 36 robocars picked for DARPA Urban Challenge
- Stanford leads pack of 36 robocars picked for DARPA Urban ChallengeRobocarsOne tough one is how to arrange anonymous use of robotaxis. I fear that people will want to assign reputations to robotaxi renters and have a way to track them down if they trash them.Re: RobocarsSelf-driving cars exhaust manifold do...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Military beefs up cyberwar capabilities with games, Linux
- Military beefs up cyberwar capabilities with games, LinuxSo it'll just be your businesses that remain in the dark ageswith Windows "technologies" then.At least the military is waking up a little bit.It is a no brainer for the Military to use Linux. It did NOT take them longto figure out that...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- The IBM buys Sun Story
- The IBM buys Sun StoryTruthIf Sun get "owned" by IBM than they brought it onthemselves. They let SPARC performance lag for yearsand did not listen to their customers. If they hadembraced open source and x86 earlier (circa 2000/1)than they would have turned the tide but there was alot of residual...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-19
- Wood, Arrows, and motivation
- Wood, Arrows, and motivationPut a fork in itForking doesn't come from some altruistic view that change/competition is good, it comes from purposely trying to break your competitor and make something proprietary. OpenBSD was started because NetBSD threw out Theo de Raadt (hmm, don't call it an OPEN community). Has Linus...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-16
- A robot that follows a human commander and responds to gestures
- This week marks another incremental step forward in the field of robotics, specifically around gestural control. Brown University reports that their researchers have demonstrated how a robot can follow nonverbal commands from a person in a variety of environments â€" indoors as well as outside â€" all without adjusting for...
- Blog posts 2009-03-14
- Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic
- Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders abound
- Data breach costs, customer churn up a bit; Repeat offenders aboundPrevent most net breaches!!!Our system prevents a majority of Network Breaches while keeping the Networks "UP," Provides a Real Time Global Administrator that sits transparently over other OEM's Network Management systems (i.e., IBM Websphere, HP OPenview, SCADA, etc), the system...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
- Detecting a Denial of Service Using Artificial Intelligent Tools, Genetic Algorithm
- This paper describes novel work in using Genetic Algorithm for detecting misuse of programs. A brief overview of Intrusion Detection System, genetic algorithm and related detection techniques is presented. Developing rules manually through incorporation of attack signatures results is meaningful but weak as it is difficult to define thresholds. In...
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Experiences With Specification-Based Intrusion Detection
- Specification-based intrusion detection, where manually specified program behavioral specifications are used as a basis to detect attacks, have been proposed as a promising alternative that combine the strengths of misuse detection accurate detection of known attacks and anomaly detection ability to detect novel attacks. However, the question of whether this...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The steep price of good technology
- The steep price of good technologyM$ is responsible for many lay offs in the USAThis is just another example of how toxic M$ technologies are!CreativityThis is happening in so many fields. We've made our products (cars, houses) so much better they don't need "repairs".But there will always be...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- Mark Greaves of Vulcan sees business opportunities in the Semantic Web
- Vulcan shares many traits with its reclusive founder, Paul Allen, yet behind the scenes the company is responsible for philanthropic support to research and community-building activities, as well as investing commercially in the likes of Radar Networks the company behind Twine and Evri. Last week, I had...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
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