IEEE Spectrum September 26, 2018 DARPA held a conference in Washington, D.C. to celebrate its 60th anniversary. One of the highlights was an exhibit hall full of both current DARPA programs as well as unique artifacts from DARPA’s history. IEEE has put together a gallery of the most interesting exhibits. DARPA also published a 140-page retrospective on what they’ve been up to over the last half century… read more.
Tag Archives: Emerging technology
BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains
Arxiv September 29, 2018 A team of researchers in the US (Washington University, Carnegie Mellon University) has developed BrainNet, a multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface, for collaborative problem solving. It combines EEG to record brain signals and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to deliver information noninvasively to the brain. Two of the three subjects are “Senders” whose decisions are decoded via EEG data analysis and transmitted via the Internet to the brain of a third subject, the “Receiver” via magnetic stimulation of the occipital. In tests five groups of three subjects successfully used BrainNet to perform a task with an average […]
The Scientific Prize Network Predicts Who Pushes the Boundaries of Science
Arxiv August 28, 2018 Using comprehensive new data on prizes and prizewinners worldwide and across disciplines, researchers at Northwestern University examine the growth dynamics and interlocking relationships found in the worldwide scientific prize network. They focus on understanding how the knowledge linkages among prizes and scientists’ propensities for prizewinning are related to knowledge pathways across disciplines and stratification within disciplines. They found that despite a proliferation of diverse prizes over time and across the globe, prizes are more concentrated within a relatively small group of scientific elites, and ties within the elites are more clustered, a relatively constrained number of […]
DARPA has an ambitious $1.5 billion plan to reinvent electronics
MIT Technology Review July 30, 2018 To move beyond Moore’s Law the chances are that radically new materials, and new ways of integrating computing power and memory, will be needed. Shifting data between memory components that store it and processors that act on it sucks up energy and creates one of the biggest hurdles to boosting processing power. DARPA launched a $1.5 billion, five-year program known as the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) to support work on advances in chip technology. The agency has just unveiled the first set of research teams selected to explore unproven but potentially powerful approaches that […]
Mass effective adoption of the right technologies is the key to growth
Next Big Future July 27, 2018 China had far faster growth without innovation. China had less patents and fewer innovative services. All the high growth Asian countries copied technology from foreign countries and were successful in adopting the technology. Later after they are rich enough accusations of theft become internalized… read more.
Methodology for discovering common principles governing complex systems
Phys.org May 30, 2018 Traditional theories have been used to tackle macroscale or microscale problems, thus dividing scientists into the two camps of holism and reductionism. No matter how much they know about the details of the systems they study and how familiar they are with the behavior of these systems, they know little about the complex structures usually present at the scale between the whole system and its elements. Researchers in China have developed the concept of “mesoscience”—a methodology for discovering common principles governing all such complexity. Over 30 top scientists in various disciples, from the USA, UK, Australia, […]
In five years quantum computing will be mainstream
Next Big Future March 19, 2018 IBM Researchers are already reaching major quantum chemistry milestones, having recently used a quantum computer to successfully simulate atomic bonding in beryllium hydride (BeH2), the most complex molecule ever simulated by a quantum computer. In the future quantum computers will continue to address problems with ever-greater complexity, eventually catching up to and surpassing what we can do with classical machines alone… read more.
Governance of emerging technologies: Aligning policy analysis with the public’s values
Eurekalert February 20, 2018 This special report, published as a supplement to the Hastings Center Report, volume 48, issue 1, is the product of a research project, Values in Impact Assessment, conducted at The Hastings Center from 2014 to 2018. The ideas in these essays were initially presented to a working group… read more. Open Access Report