DARPA

U.S. Seeks to Automate Video Analysis

U.S. military and intelligence agencies continue to look for new ways to use artificial intelligence to sift through huge amounts of video imagery in hopes of freeing analysts to ...Full Article

DARPA, Chipmakers Seek Path Beyond Moore’s Law

The U.S. military long ago ceded dominance in electronics innovation to Silicon Valley, the DoD-backed powerhouse that has driven microelectronic generation for decades. With Moore's Law clearly running out ...Full Article

Microsoft, Rambus Collaborate on Quantum Computing

Rambus Inc., the chip technology intellectual property vendor, is working with Microsoft Research on future memory requirements for quantum computing. Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS), Sunnyvale, Calif., confirmed just before the ...Full Article

From Hacker to IoT Security Hero? Red Balloon Floats New Solution

The same person who once hacked HP printers and other telecommunications products to demonstrate the vulnerability of embedded devices has now developed a platform-independent real-time host-based intrusion defense system designed ...Full Article

IoT Seen as Prelude to ‘Sensor Swarm’

The current IT infrastructure shaped by the proliferation of mobile devices will soon give way to a "sensory swarm" that will overtake the current Internet of Things (IoT) while ...Full Article

IBM, Carrier Partners Claim Elastic Networking Advance

Researchers from AT&T, IBM, and Applied Communication Sciences said they have built a prototype network that promises to reduce the set up time for inter-cloud connectivity from days to ...Full Article

Robots Showcase Skills at DRC

A month ago, the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials (DRC) commenced. The main goal of the event was to aid in the development of robots that will someday respond to ...Full Article

Autonomous Vehicle Future Drives Closer to the Present

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DARPAAV.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="58" border="0" />Less than a decade after the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) gave the greenlight on autonomous vehicle research, Carnegie ...Full Article

DARPA to Create Underwater Drone Nests

DARPA, the Pentagon’s research agency, plans on creating underwater platforms that can be deployed at a moment’s notice. Known as “Hydra,” named after the serpent-like creature with many heads ...Full Article

ATLAS: The Robot with the World on its Shoulders

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ATLAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Despite the diversity of entries in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, there is one image that event followers are now well-familiar with: ...Full Article