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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, formerly ARPA) has been the military's in-house innovator since 1958, a year after the USSR launched Sputnik.DARPA is widely known for creating ARPAnet, the predecessor of the internet, and has been instrumental in advancing hardened electronics, brain-computer interface technology, drones, and stealth technology.
Pages in category "DARPA projects" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 100 Year Starship; A.
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Tucked in the report are three programs funded by federal agencies using millions of taxpayer dollars to experiment on cats. ... Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), $10,851,439 of ...
Johnson and York were both keen on space projects, but when NASA was established later in 1958 all space projects and most of ARPA's funding were transferred to it. Johnson resigned and ARPA was repurposed to do "high-risk", "high-gain", "far out" basic research, a posture that was enthusiastically embraced by the nation's scientists and ...
Siri's technology was born from SRI's work on the DARPA-funded CALO project, described by SRI as the largest artificial intelligence project ever launched. [107] Siri was co-founded in December 2007 by Dag Kittlaus (CEO), Adam Cheyer (vice president, engineering), and Tom Gruber (CTO/vice president, design), together with Norman Winarsky (vice ...
The Joint European Disruptive Initiative launched its first "Darpa-type GrandChallenge" [8] on Covid-19 on May 5, 2020. [9] The competition consisted in screening "billions of molecules with blocking interactions on SARS-CoV-2" to develop a drug against the coronavirus — with each participant having to use at least three different calculation methods for the simulations. [10]
Over the years, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has conducted a number of prize competitions to spur innovations.A prize competition allows DARPA to establish an ambitious goal, which makes way for novel approaches from the public that might otherwise appear too risky to undertake by experts in a particular discipline.