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If so, DARPA and NASA would like to hear from you. These organizations have numerous experts working with them on any number of endeavors, but they’re asking for outside help tackling the next big question: How can we create a spaceship (and a society) capable of surviving a 100-year-long journey into space? If you have [...]
Can electric shocks to your brain make you a better gamer?
by Jonathan Strickland | April 19, 2011
As I was scanning the news in the tech world, my eyes caught sight of a story I couldn’t pass up. It was on msnbc.com and it focused on a study conducted by our friends at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). They took a group of willing volunteers, attached some wires to the volunteers’ craniums and then zapped them with two milliamps of electricity. The volunteers played a game used by soldiers to train for combat.
This has been reported by a thousand outlets over the weekend, but in case you missed it… What if you are a gigantic corporation with a technology foundation, a bit of wackiness and a division of the company that requires cars to drive around cities to do mapping on a regular basis. Then you might [...]
Win $40,000 – the DARPA Network Challenge Starts Saturday
by Marshall Brain | December 4, 2009
The DARPA Network Challenge is an odd contest that starts on Saturday, December 5: DARPA Network Challenge To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required [...]
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