DARPA reveals Avatar program, robot soldiers incoming
DARPA, the bleeding-edge research wing of the United States Department of Defense, has revealed that it will spend millions of dollars on a project called “Avatar.” If you’ve seen the movie of the same name — the highest-grossing movie of all time — let me put your mind at rest: DARPA isn’t looking to genetically engineer blue-skinned aliens that humans can control; no, they’re developing robots. In the words of DARPA itself, the Avatar program will work on “interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bipedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.” If you’ve been following ExtremeTech for the last few months, you’re probably experiencing sweaty a mix of terror and excitement right now. Then there’s the interface: A joystick and multi-monitor display would probably do the job, or, if you really wanted to become one with your robotic avatar, you could use a virtual reality visor and a suit with sensors and actuators.
Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations
Purdue University's Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations, or SEAS, is currently being used by Homeland Security and the US Defense Department to simulate crises on the US mainland.[1] SEAS "enables researchers and organizations to try out their models or techniques in a publicly known, realistically detailed environment."[2] It "is now capable of running real-time simulations for up to 62 nations, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and China. SEAS was developed to help Fortune 500 companies with strategic planning. Sentient World Simulation is the name given to the current vision of making SEAS a "continuously running, continually updated mirror model of the real world that can be used to predict and evaluate future events and courses of action Development and use[edit] In 2006 JFCOM-J9 used SEAS to war game warfare scenarios for Baghdad in 2015. Sentient World Simulation[edit] The Sentient World Simulation project (SWS) is to be based on SEAS. Personnel[edit] Alok R.
DARPA Program Aims to Help Counselors Spot Signs of Stress, PTSD
Every day, 22 veterans commit suicide—a startling number prompting experts to probe for methods to curb the national epidemic. Officials are fielding a new program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which can help experts assess the psychological state of troops and veterans early on and possibly get them the help needed before it’s too late. The Detection and Computational Analysis of Psychological Signals (DCAPS) program joins the growing inventory of measures to combat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicides. It has tools to analyze facial expressions, body gestures and speech, both content and delivery, and inform experts on a user’s psychological state of mind or alert them to behavioral changes that could indicate problems. “We are now beginning to bring objective assessment to hard quantifiable data to make data-driven analysis, to come up with the indicators of distress,” explains Col. “There is no human in the loop here.
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The content of the pages provided here at Pegasus was collected and written by Jack with additions by other members of Pegasus to provide corroborating evidence as well as new pertinent data. All Jack's original work, including some pages not on Pegasus yet, can be found at his website... Visit Jack's Website Welcome To The Moon Page Resume brief: 1967-70 Army... Petroleum Storage industrial mechanics...Training in industrial handling and mechanics of fuel storage and it's equipment.Including on and off-loading of tankers. I didn't do it to get out of it, I wanted to put my skills to better use to help the effort. I met other photographers in the AF and went to their labs on official invites and saw some astounding things. 1970-77... acquired employment with government contractors involved with mining operations overseas... Most of my work consisted of maintaining industrial machines and equipment. I was injured on the job in 2001 and don't do that kind of work any more. - Jack
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Dates:July 16-18, 2013 Location: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada Attendance: Limited to 75 participants Fee for Tutorial: $400 per participant ($200 for students and post-doctoral fellows) Contact: healthpolicymodelingworkshop@cs.usask.caThis email address is being protected from spambots. *Orientation Information Download: PDF version of Orientation Information Speakers Include: Lix L. The Annual Workshop on Dynamic Modeling for Health Policy is a forum for convening small groups of computational/systems modelers, policymakers, health researchers, community organizations, and domain experts who share a common interest in applying dynamic modeling to pressing health policy concerns. Why Dynamic Modeling? Despite widespread progress in extending the length of life over the past century, many illnesses continue to impose troublingly high health burdens. Why Digital Epidemiology?
DARPA's Top 3 Predictions For The Future
By Kevin Samson When it comes to predictions, perhaps no organization on the planet is better able to make dreams a reality than the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Their “mad science” reputation already has given the world humanoid robots, drones, and the world’s most advanced surveillance systems. But they are telling us that there is much more to come. Interestingly, the timeline given by DARPA’s “Forward to the Future” video messages, seen below, is 2045 – the theorized date of The Singularity popularized by futurist Ray Kurzweil in his 2006 book The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. With yearly (known) funding in the tens of billions of dollars, DARPA also receives untold funding for “black budget” secret projects not even subjected to presidential and congressional oversight. 1 – Human-Machine Interface This broad category includes new ways to communicate with the machines around us, even through emotions. 2 – Mind Control 3 – Nanotech Materials
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Data Storage In Crystal Quartz Will Change Everything!
Source: www.thespiritscience.net | Original Post Date: February 13, 2014 – You know how much I LOVE talking about new technology, right? Well, this is one that is going to blow your mind, make an excellent case for the Crystal Movement, and also mop the floor with “limited data storage” forever! There’s a new kind of storage device which many tech companies have been diving into in secret for the past few years, which Hitachi recently came out with a technology they are developing which is essentially a sheet of Quartz Glass, which could potentially save data up to 300 Million Years! If you didn’t know anything about storage devices that we currently have, but anything from records, CD’s, USB sticks, magnetic tape, none of these can even lay a finger on this new, very impressive technology. “The prototype is made of a square of quartz two centimeters wide and two millimeters thick. Now, while this is exciting, there’s more to it than just that. The Crystal Skulls References:
