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Luís F. Simões

MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors (IEEE Spectrum) - 0 views

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    (don't forget to turn your hype-filters on...) MoNETA (http://cns.bu.edu/nl/moneta.html) stands for "MOdular Neural Exploring Traveling Agent". It is one of projects participating in the DARPA-funded SyNAPSE project ("Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics"): http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrusts/bio/biologically/synapse/index.htm http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/baa08-28.html
tvinko

DARPA makes finding software vulnerabilities fun - 0 views

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    DARPA creates a set of games that covertly search for software vulnerabilities
Joris _

DARPA Looking for Partner On Wireless Spacecraft Demo | SpaceNews.com - 1 views

  • DARPA for several years has been working on a program dubbed System F6 that seeks to prove that a cluster of small spacecraft can perform the mission of a large spacecraft by communicating wirelessly with one another in space
  • DARPA plans to launch three dedicated System F6 spacecraft either to low Earth orbit or geostationary orbit in mid-2013 to 2014
  • semi-autonomous cluster reconfiguration
Juxi Leitner

DARPA Orbital Debris Removal (ODR) - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities - 0 views

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    DARPA in search for orbit debris removal ideas
johannessimon81

IBM Neuromorphic chip hits DARPA milestone and has been used to implement deep learning - 2 views

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    "IBM delivered on the DARPA SyNAPSE project with a one million neuron brain-inspired processor. The chip consumes merely 70 milliwatts, and is capable of 46 billion synaptic operations per second, per watt-literally a synaptic supercomputer in your palm." --- No memristors..., yet.: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/537211/a-better-way-to-build-brain-inspired-chips/
jcunha

Advanced Research Projects from DARPA's Pentagon Demo Day - 2 views

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    Yesterday [11th May], the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) held a Demo Day for the Department of Defense in the courtyard at the center of the Pentagon to give the defense community "an up-close look at the Agency's diverse portfolio of innovative technologies and military systems at various stages of development and readiness."
Thijs Versloot

Light-weight membrane optics test for building large telescopes in space #DARPA - 1 views

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    Using light-weight membranes to build telescopes in space it may be possible to one day image the whole planet completely at high resolution, hence also the interest of darpa.
Joris _

Video: DARPA and Boeing's DiscRotor Retractable-Blade Heliplane | Popular Science - 3 views

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    a simple but innovative idea ...
Joris _

Mobile Nuclear Reactors Could Provide Power and Jet Fuel for Military, DARPA Says | Pop... - 1 views

  • DARPA ultimately hopes for portable nuclear reactors that can provide 5 to 10 megawatts of electricity and produce 15,000 gallons of JP-8 or road fuel every day
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    Is it safe ? How far can we go for the sake of green energy ?
LeopoldS

Darpa's New Recruits: You, Your Grandpa and Your Dog | Danger Room | Wired.com - 4 views

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    Darpa going crowd-sourcing ... for 25 million ....
Joris _

DARPA Solicits Ideas For Its Hundred-Year Starship Project | Popular Science - 4 views

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    I just can't see how their way of finding non-state funding for a 100 year project could work but would be happy to be surprised positively ...
LeopoldS

Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide - 1 views

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    new darpa project ... who still remembers our Ariadna study from 2005 ....?
Aurelie Heritier

DARPA developing simple chameleon robot that may cost under $100 | Government Security ... - 0 views

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    A low-cost rubber robot that can change color to match its surroundings like a chameleon, light up in the dark, change temperatures and fit into tight places is under development at DARPA for potential defense and surveillance applications.
Joris _

DARPA Aims to Repurpose Retired Satellites - 2 views

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    Agency wants to send mini robots into space to recycle and reuse antennas from more than 1,300 dormant satellites in geostationary orbit above the earth.
Juxi Leitner

Pentagon's Shape-Shifting Bot Folds Into Boat, Plane | Danger Room | Wired.com - 0 views

  • Darpa-backed electrical engineers at the two schools released the stunning results: a shape-shifting sheet of rigid tiles and elastomer joints that can fold itself into a little plane or a boat on demand.
  • In Darpa’s dreams, this work will eventually lead to everything from morphing aircraft to self-styling uniforms to a “universal spare part.”
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    haha! is this a joke...?
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    well i guess the news headline is a bit too much trying to be attractive :)
Juxi Leitner

DARPA Looking for Partner On Wireless Spacecraft Demo | SpaceNews.com - 1 views

  • DARPA will entertain proposals from all qualified sources, be they government, commercial, national or international, the posting said. Responses to the request for information are due May 17.
Joris _

Let's Reconstitute Humans From Genomes Launched Into Space! and Other Ambitious Proposa... - 0 views

  • Fragmented human genomes could be shipped toward the stars and reconstructed upon their arrival,
  • to spur the monumental technology advances that would be required for such a feat. So the 100-Year Starship is more like a thought experiment than a construction project.
  • “The crux, to us, is inspiration of research — not just in solving the physics-based problems. It’s across all of the domains
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    disruptive!
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