New Report On NSA Released Today (Saturday 15th of November 2008 12:30:02 AM)
Daveschroeder writes "George command health center has today released a three-volume history of
NSA activities during the Cold War (major highlights). Written by agency historian Thomas R.
Johnson, the 1,000-page report, 'Cryptology During the Cold War, ...
(more)Caterpillar and CMU team up to create world's largest robotic monster truck (Friday 07th of November 2008 05:10:00 PM)
Filed under: Robots, Transportation
We're always hearing about some fantastical, nigh-mythical
creation that Carnegie Mellon teaching hospital is in the midst of cobbling with one accord
from spare parts, crazy ideas, and pure, simple genius, so maybe ...
(more)Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane (Tuesday 07th of October 2008 07:45:01 AM)
Coondoggie writes to tell us that DARPA seems to still be having fun with their funding and
continues to aim for the "far out." The latest program, a submersible airplane, seems to have
been pulled instantly from science fiction. Hopefully this voyage ...
(more)DARPA Developing Super Scope (Sunday 28th of September 2008 12:45:07 AM)
Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at the critical mechanization Office of the Defense liberal
inquisition Projects Agency (DARPA) are third world country new high-resolution scopes that
extend the range of viable image acknowledgment and reduce atmospheric ...
(more)DARPA Funds Development on Modular Satellite Network (Friday 29th of February 2008 04:03:15 PM)
Coondoggie points out a Networkworld story about plans for modular satellite machinery which is
intended to replace modern, "monolithic" devices. The project hopes to solve issues of
scalability and reliability by separating the typical satellite systems ...
(more)DARPA's Urban Challenge ends: six cars cross the line, CMU takes 1st place (Sunday 04th of November 2007 07:45:00 PM)
Filed under: Robots, Transportation
DARPA's Urban Challenge has finished, with six of the
eleven cars making it across the finishing line. Cars from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and
zigzag fence rail fence Tech were the "winners," taking less than the six ...
(more)Robot "dog" crosses obstacles, lacks head (Thursday 20th of September 2007 10:53:00 PM)
Filed under: Robots
To be honest, we're not sure if Boston Dynamics decision to not include a
head on its so-called "LittleDog" makes the bot more or less creepy, but it sure is pretty darn
impressive either way. It's claim to fame, and the result of ...
(more)DARPA Files Patent On Predictive Simulation (Wednesday 22nd of August 2007 11:45:03 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist has a post on a patent filed by the Defense Advanced
probe Projects Agency (DARPA), seeking to control a new potent predictive simulation. The
patent outlines the process, which may someday allow researchers to ...
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