(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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- The French way to open source
- The French way to open sourceTop down short term thinking will harm youAnd you vote for the idiots who don't listen.RE: The French way to open sourceDana - I agree that if OSS is to grow past its current niche in servers and developing nations who mistrust US high-tech companies...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Cohen's negotiated open source idea moving ahead
- Cohen's negotiated open source idea moving aheadBut think of the children!I'll channel Anton here:"What about all the programmers who won't be employed doing redundant projects for each of the organizations here? If they all kept their work secret, the same job could support many times the number of programmers...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Robotic car preps for DARPA Challenge
- Paul Perrone, CEO of Perrone Robotics, introduces Tommy Jr., a driverless car powered by Solaris and Java, created for the DARPA Urban Challenge. The vehicle made an appearance on stage at the JavaOne conference last week in San Francisco. Tommy Jr. will navigate using laser "eyes" mounted on the body...
- Videos 2008-05-15
- Aliph releases new Jawbone that is 50% smaller than the original
- IMHO, one of the best Bluetooth headsets you can buy after getting the swing of putting it on and off is the Aliph Jawbone. Today the announced a new model that has several improvements that look like they actually listened to what consumer wanted changed. There should be one at...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Brain waves used for faster image sorting
- Computers are fast for many tasks, but humans are faster for identifying objects or people in images. But is it possible to combine the speed of a computer with the sensitivity of the human brain? According to a IEEE Spectrum Online article, 'A Brainy Approach to Image Sorting,' several teams...
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Can Deep Green help a combat commander?
- University of Southern California USC researchers are developing several parts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Deep Green program. Their efforts are intended to help commanders on the battlefield to anticipate enemy moves. 'The system interweaves anticipatory planning with adaptive execution to help the commander think ahead, identify...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Replacing wire with laser, Sun tries to speed up data
- Replacing wire with laser, Sun tries to speed up dataQuestionSun has received $44 million from the Pentagon and has partners.(Quoting:Sun's partners on the project are Stanford and the University of California, San Diego, and two silicon photonics firms, Luxtera and Kotura.)Has Sun had to sacrifice any eventual profit in return...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Microsoft acquires rootkit specialist Komoku; DoD now a customer
- Microsoft on Thursday acquired Komoku, which provides rootkit detection software, for an undisclosed sum. Komoku's technology will be added to Microsoft's enterprise-focused Forefront and Windows Live OneCare security software. Komoku counts the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense as customers and gives Microsoft's anti-malware...
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Pakistan+on+the+YouTube+black+hole%3A+Never+mind
- Pakistan+on+the+YouTube+black+hole%3A+Never+mindWhen will people live and let live?If these Pakistanis are really sorry, they should cut a check for their mess up, for all those folk's time out there. If they are not that sorry, fine them or put them in isolation for awhile.Soooo...So essentially what you're saying is Pakistan is...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Year of the nanotube
- For nearly 25 years now, ever since the discovery of the Carbon-60 "Buckyball" at Rice University, scientists have been trying to find uses for what is now called nanotechnology. Those uses are now coming thick and fast. In November I wrote how carbon nanotubes could be...
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- TalkBack Central: Pentagon -- Get off the Net!
- TalkBack Central: Pentagon -- Get off the Net!Aren't organized???I don't have any data to back my hunch, but I would bet that organized crime/hostile governments are VERY active in internet hacking/terrorism/fraud.RE: TalkBack Central: Pentagon -- Get off the Net!You forget who created the Internet in the first place sir.RE: Pentagon,...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Hey, I love you too, guy
- Hey, I love you too, guySeems to me that SO.CAL Guy did his homework very well......considering you had to dig out an article from Feb 2006 to try and refute what he said (which it didn't considering the Feb '06 article had absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with the trash...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Commercial brain computer systems are coming
- All over the world, systems that directly connect silicon circuits to brains are under development, and some are nearly ready for commercial applications, according to a new report from the World Technology Evaluation Center and announced by a news release of the University of Southern California USC. Some of the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- (Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day)
- (Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day)from useless to dangerouswe got accustomed with M$ flops or uselless and buggy windoze apps...But relying on M$ to drive yor car is like playing russian rullete with 5 rounds in a 6 shooter.Microsoft Innovation Day?? That's An Oxymoron...Kind of like Army Intelligence.my opinions...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT
- Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTWow!Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. What a great description and comparison of Volta to GWT!I am so excited about Volta and it's possibilities!-Brandonhttp://dynamics-ax.blogspot.comRE: Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTNice idea, but slow as hell. Try the demos at...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- A flying fish or a seaplane?
- University of Michigan engineers have developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle UAV after looking at real flying fish. Like the fish, this seaplane takes off and lands on water. The 7-foot wingspan electric UAV has been funded by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and designed as 'an...
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- A real medical tricorder
- Remember, on Star Trek, how someone would be sick or wounded and the doctor would whip out a medical tricorder? OK, back up. Remember Star Trek? (Picture from Smart Economy blog. Well a British medical outfit called Orla Protein Technologies is tieing up with...
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- National Security and the PC
- The best thing about being an intellectual right-winger is that I am, of course, always right -something that can't generally be said for everyone. In particular it can't be said for a guy named Lewis Page whose report: DARPA looking to verify imported military chips, on the Register...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- News to know: Leopard data loss; Microsoft's offline sync; Mandriva CEO; Google and GPL
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: This Leopard bug beats anything Vista has to offer. Tom Karpick: Massive data loss bug in Leopard. Mary Jo Foley: More details emerge on Microsoft's online-offline sync platform. Ryan Stewart: The WPF component market is hot. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Carnegie Mellon wins the Urban Challenge
- And the winner is ... Sunday, DARPA announced the winning teams in the super-challenging robot car race the Urban Challenge. The big boys are: In first place, Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing Team. Prize: $2 million. Second place: the Stanford...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
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