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Ask a typical American who invented the Internet, and there's a decent chance you'll get a quick sarcastic joke about former Vice President Al Gore, who became infamous for making that claim ...
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.
Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing. All modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs , General Electric and MIT , which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial ...
The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to U.S. national security by achieving "Total Information Awareness" (TIA).
The Department of Defense awarded 13 separate defense contracts Thursday, worth $453.2 million in total. Defense contractor L-3 Communications won two of them: The larger of the two awards, a $38 ...
DARWARS Ambush. DARWARS was a research program at DARPA intended to accelerate the development and deployment of military training systems. These were envisioned as low-cost, mobile, web-centric, simulation-based, “lightweight” systems designed to take advantage of the ubiquitous presence of the PC and of new technology, including multi-player games, virtual worlds, off-the-shelf PC ...
The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs, is a book by Michael Belfiore about the history and origins of DARPA. Belfiore describes DARPA's creation as the agency ARPA in Department of Defense and some of its notable contributions to artificial limbs, the Internet, space exploration ...
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. DARPA was created in 1958 as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.