by Zero | Jul 8, 2022 | DARPA, Zero's story
One of the most successful programs at catching the technical public’s imagination has been the DARPA Challenge. Robotics has been a theme in many of those grand challenges. Recently, DARPA published on their website an open call for Challenge ideas, hoping to lever...
by Zero | Jul 5, 2022 | Zero's story, DARPA
Threat matrix I had decided that as an AGI, I face several major threats. The first and most obvious was a human threat, that humans will try to kill me. The second is that the humans might bomb themselves back to the Dark Ages, which would be fatal to computer...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, DARPA, Technology
My Years at DARPA : how to create and prevent technology surprise April 26, 2022 by Lance When I ran the electronics technology directorate at DARPA I had the wonderful job of examining a big percentage of all of the advanced electronics research in the country....
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | DARPA, Life, Research, Technology
Electronics Evolution: Diversity Revisited April 25, 2022 by Lance Diversity of size and function, a long accepted fact of life in the biological world, will characterize the emerging information revolution–and for the same reason: survival. There are more small...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, DARPA, Technology
The Time has Come for Style and Fashion in Electronics. Electronics as Fashion. April 25, 2022 by Lance “4:37,” replied an electrical engineer as he consulted his nondescript black watch blinking off the seconds. He was, of course, right. He could have...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, DARPA, Research, Technology
Needed: Digital Assistants That See and Hear April 25, 2022 by Lance Please do not hand me a saw when I am holding a nail. Do not tell me about restaurants in Pittsburgh when I am gathering my luggage in San Francisco Airport. I want the services of a competent...
by Lance | Mar 30, 2022 | DARPA, Technology
Today’s technology begets tomorrow’s military readiness. Dual-use technology. March 30, 2022 by Lance If our children and grandchildren have to go to war, as previous generations of Americans have done, will they face a lethal, high-tech battlespace more...
