The Technological Revolution: Artificial Intelligence and the Invisible Plague

[4evrneo]

Posted by Fred Steeves (here)

Posted by 4evrneo (here)
I was hesitant to mention that I think I may have seen my first "scuttler" also. This past sunday nite, as I turned my light off in my room I saw something that could very well have been spider looking above my bed near my fan. It was dark in my room but I also didnt have my contact lenses in but I would say it was about as big as the palm of my hand or a little smaller. I saw it for about 2 or 3 seconds and then it looked as if it just went up disappearing into the ceiling.

Spider like huh? That's interesting. The ones I see are bigger, roughly half the size of a person, but formless. Like a dark condensed fog.

I have seen the dark fog type thing before too, which was almost as big as me, maybe I dont quite know what "scuttler" is, but the fog thing I assumed was an entity of another sort, like dimentional or spirit entity. I can sense when spirits or ghosts are around and cannot see them, but this small spider shaped thing the other night felt diffierent somehow, not sure I can explain but was very different for sure.

[sheme]

Not saying this has any thing to do with what you are all experiencing- this is just a simple precaution you understand, too many key words are signaling to me to be ignored. you are discerning make your own minds up. http://www.rnib.org.uk/eyehealth/eye...etachment.aspx

[Flash]

Posted by sheme (here)
Not saying this has any thing to do with what you are all experiencing- this is just a simple precaution you understand, too many key words are signaling to me to be ignored. you are discerning make your own minds up. http://www.rnib.org.uk/eyehealth/eye...etachment.aspx

Thanks scheme for those who may have a vision problem that may become serious and has to be treated.

But I can assure you that what is described here is not, on average, retinal detachment. One can check for flash of light, if it is the eye, when lying on your face for a while, just move a bit and you may see those flashes. This has to do with retina. The floaters as well, like those fibrous threads floating around, those are the gel in your eyes that has detached, no danger at all, just inconvenient and permanent. If it becomes like black flies, go see the doctor. Retinal detachment is passive, it is in you vision, but you cannot follow it around as you would do while looking at something for example. Retinal detachment is presented to you, or jelly detachment is presented to you, if you move the eyes, it will follow a bit but lag behind where your eyes are going.

The shadow described can be followed with the eye, and therefore precede the eyes movements, which you cannot do with retinal detachment. It is very different from gel detachement for example, I know, I have had gel detachment for most of my life. I have seen shadows, and it is entirely different.

[sheme]

Thanks Flash - there is nothing better than our own first hand experience, we must be discerning, we are all responsible for our own conclusions.

As to the state of our health. I have no experience of taking coke! or other mind altering drugs, but I would hope that if any Avalon member was partaking they would be gracious enough to share this with the rest of us, Mind Altering Drugs can give us insights that others may not be privy to. love and peace to all.

[william r sanford72]

Posted by RUSirius (here)

Posted by Fred Steeves (here)

Posted by SilentFeathers (here)
I personally think these scuttlers operate in the same way some how.....people that see them are actually getting a glimpse of the inner guts of the supercomputer IMO. When this "outrageous" and "invasive" technology connects to a person the connection is not just a one way street so to speak....as the supercomputer connects to the mind, the mind connects to the supercomputer, they can see us and read us and somehow there is a glitch IMO that sometimes allows the mind to "notice" the connection/source and for a split second the mind is actually seeing the invasive "hardware" probing them....the scuttler somehow senses the breach and disengages, thus appearing for a split second "outside" of the mind and fades away quickly as the connection is severed.

one of those little pinpoints of light appeared briefly, almost right next to me. I somewhat often see either one or the other, but never both at the same time. Hmmm, almost seems like two opposing forces in play. Thoughts?

I see these pinpoints of light daily, FWIW.

my wife.me.and kids even have mentioned these pin points or flashes in somes cases almost daily...of light.

[Chester]

Posted by sheme (here)
Not saying this has any thing to do with what you are all experiencing- this is just a simple precaution you understand, too many key words are signaling to me to be ignored. you are discerning make your own minds up. http://www.rnib.org.uk/eyehealth/eye...etachment.aspx

In 1978 I had surgery for a retinal detachment in my right eye. In 1986, through trauma, suffered a full blown detached retina in my left eye and could no longer even detect light.

I have "seen" scuttlers and never heard about them until this thread.

I had a funny feeling about what I saw and dismissed it as another manifestation of my clear insanity.

Now I am not so sure if it was only imagination.

[Jeffrey]

Here's an info-graphic I've been working on.

It's a lot of programs/projects but it's not all of 'em. Also, there are some companies missing (i.e. Lockheed Martin, BAE, and some others I can't think of right now I'm so tired).

Next step is to compile a PDF with links to the webpages of the programs/projects.

By the way, just enter in the acronym in google along with the box it's connected to -- you should be able to dig up some information. There's plenty.

Click on the PDF for a bigger version. (BTW there is no color code)

Now, reconsider the following ...

Various technologies and sciences will:

• Integrate -- This is where they begin to protrude and branch into one another.
  
  
• Assimilate -- This is where they begin to absorb and collect information from the branches of integration they have projected.
  
  
• Dilate -- This is when they widen their sphere of influence by integrating and assimilating with other sciences and technologies.

All three of these proposed phases feed into one another synergistically -- actualizing their overall potential. Their capacity continues to increase in this manner. This is how the threshold is approached.

It's already apparent, just look around. Following the trends, it will become much more apparent over the next three to five years.

[Gardener]

Vivek....>Here's an info-graphic I've been working on.

Thank you for that, lot of work for you!
Oh dear! That kinda brings home the extent of this machine. Rolling inexorably towards......? Now I think I see why it is a requirement for 'them' to promote transhumanism, humans (or rather transhumans) are required for parallel processing, the continuation of Moore's Law.
A bit lost for words here; possible futures are looking a bit grim, it does somewhat explain the need for ultra control, for this future, humankind won't have the choice to be or not to be.

Sigh......... Solar flares?

[Jeffrey]

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Blue Brain Project

The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.

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The primary machine used by the Blue Brain Project is a Blue Gene supercomputer built by IBM.

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DEEP (deep-project.eu) is an exascale supercomputer to be built at the Jülich Research Center in Germany. The project started in December 2011 and is funded by the European Union's 7th framework programme. The three-year protoype phase of the project has received €8.5 million. A prototype supercomputer that will perform at 100 petaflops is hoped to be built by the end of 2014.

The Blue Brain Project simulations will be ported to the DEEP prototype to help test the system's performance.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project - http://www.artificialbrains.com/blue-brain-project

SyNAPSE

The vision for the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program is to develop electronic neuromorphic machine technology that scales to biological levels. SyNAPSE supports an unprecedented multidisciplinary approach coordinating aggressive technology development activities in the following areas: hardware, architecture, simulation, and environment.

The initial phase of SyNAPSE developed nanometer-scale electronic synaptic components capable of adapting connection strength between two neurons in a manner analogous to that seen in biological systems and simulated the utility of these synaptic components in core microcircuits that support the overall system architecture.

Continuing efforts will focus on hardware development through microcircuit development, fabrication process development, single chip system development, and multi-chip system development. In support of these hardware developments, SyNAPSE seeks to develop increasingly capable architecture and design tools, very large-scale computer simulations of the neuromorphic electronic systems to inform the designers and validate hardware prior to fabrication, and virtual environments for training and testing simulated and hardware neuromorphic systems.

Source: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Pr...(SYNAPSE).aspx - http://www.artificialbrains.com/darpa-synapse-program

MoNETA

The primary goal of a Modular Neural Exploring Traveling Agent (MoNETA) project is to create an autonomous agent capable of object recognition and localization, navigation, and planning in virtual and real environments. Major components of the system perform sensory object recognition, motivation and rewards processing, goal selection, allocentric representation of the world, spatial planning, and motor execution. MoNETA is based on the real time, massively parallel, Cog Ex Machina environment co-developed by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and the Neuromorphics Lab at Boston University.

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So why should you believe us when we say we finally have the technology that will lead to a true artificial intelligence? Because of MoNETA, the brain on a chip. MoNETA (Modular Neural Exploring Traveling Agent) is the software we’re designing at Boston University’s department of cognitive and neural systems, which will run on a braininspired microprocessor under development at HP Labs in California. It will function according to the principles that distinguish us mammals most profoundly from our fast but witless machines. MoNETA [...] will do things no computer ever has. It will perceive its surroundings, decide which information is useful, integrate that information into the emerging structure of its reality, and in some applications, formulate plans that will ensure its survival. In other words, MoNETA will be motivated by the same drives that motivate cockroaches, cats, and humans.

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They also admit that, due to their benefactor (the DoD) they will likely first find a home in military tech; think autonomous vehicles that don’t just prowl the skies, but that actively engage in learning behaviors and problem solving to, say, search for IEDs or patrol territory for hostile intent. But the researchers envision a much broader role for MoNETA – and brain mimicking machines on the whole – in the near future.

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It won’t be long until all multicore chips integrate a dense, lowpower memory with their CMOS cores. It’s just common sense.

Our prediction? Neuromorphic chips will eventually come in as many flavors as there are brain designs in nature: fruit fly, earthworm, rat, and human. All our chips will have brains.

Source: http://nl.bu.edu/research/projects/moneta/ - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...8cK6QlFySaQcvg

STARnet

Function Accelerated nanomaterial Engineering (FAME): The FAME Center focuses on nonconventional materials and devices incorporating nanostructures with quantum-level properties to enable analog, logic and memory devices for beyond-binary computation. FAME is hosted at the University of California-Los Angeles with collaborators from Caltech, Cornell, Columbia, MIT, North Carolina State University, Purdue, Rice, Stanford, University of California-Irvine, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Riverside, University of California-Santa Barbara, and Yale.

Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel Architectures (C_SPIN): Electron spin-based memory and computation have the potential to overcome the power, performance and architectural constraints of conventional CMOS-based devices. C_SPIN focuses on magnetic materials, spin transport, novel spin-transport materials, spintronic devices, circuits and novel architectures. C_SPIN is hosted at the University of Minnesota with collaborators from Carnegie-Mellon University, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, University of Alabama, University of California-Riverside, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Systems on Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC): Explores a drastic shift in the model of computation and communication from a deterministic digital foundation to a statistical one. Many applications such as imaging processing and communications do not require one hundred percent perfectly error free computation and this Center will produce new strategies and designs optimized with this in mind. SONIC is hosted at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign with collaborators from the University of California-Berkeley, University of California-San Diego, Stanford University, Oregon State University, Princeton University, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Center for Low Energy Systems Technology (LEAST): The overriding goal is low power electronics. For this purpose it addresses nonconventional materials and quantum-engineered devices, and projects implementation in novel integrated circuits and computing architectures. LEAST is hosted at Notre Dame University, with collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Tech, Penn State University, Purdue University, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-San Diego, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Texas-Dallas and University of Texas-Austin.

The Center for Future Architectures Research (C-FAR) The scope of C-FAR is to investigate highly parallel computing implemented in nonconventional computing systems, but based on current CMOS integrated circuit technology. C-Far is based at the University of Michigan with collaborators from Columbia University, Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Princeton university, Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-San Diego, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Virginia and the University of Washington.

The TerraSwarm Research Center (TerraSwarm): The Center will focus on the challenge of developing technologies that provide innovative, city-scale capabilities via the deployment of distributed applications on shared swarm platforms. Two scenarios are of interest: a city during normal operation and a city during natural or man-made disasters (such as accidents, failures, hurricanes, earthquakes or terrorist attacks). Terraswarm is hosted at the University of California-Berkeley with collaborators from California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California-San Diego, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas-Dallas, and the University of Washington.

Source: http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Rele...013/01/17.aspx - http://www.src.org/program/starnet/

See also: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/...bionic-humans/

Next up ... intelligent systems, multi-agent systems, and distributed artificial intelligence ...

[Jeffrey]

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NETSTORM

To help U.S. forces more quickly and accurately understand this shifting human intelligence (HUMINT), Aptima, which applies expertise in human-centered engineering, is developing NETSTORM, the “NETwork STructural Organization and Relevance Mapper.” NETSTORM will be a system of algorithms for better focusing intelligence collection and identifying these murky adversarial, neutral, and friendly networks. Where insurgents and civilians often blend together, slipping back and forth in their group affiliations, NETSTORM will help troops to understand these complex social environments, uncover hidden networks, and identify key figures of interest and impending threats.

NETSTORM is being funded and developed for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) for its ‘GUARD-DOG’ program (Graph Understanding and Analysis for Rapid Detection–Deployed On the Ground). As envisioned, the system of hardware, software, and analytics will have soldiers on patrol using handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) to collect and assess human intelligence, which will be shared with analyst teams at headquarters. Powering both the handheld devices and headquarter computers, NETSTORM will map human networks containing millions of data points on people, places, and organizations, helping identify the key roles, relations and activities.

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Using advanced network pattern recognition algorithms that can handle ‘noisy’ data, NETSTORM will filter out webs of irrelevant entities and connections to deduce the roles and subnetworks of interest to U.S. commanders. The system will help U.S forces understand the social landscape of these urban and rural populations in context of the localculture, politics, economics, and current security conditions.

NETSTORM isexpected to greatly accelerate the mostly manual processes of collecting, updating, analyzing and prioritizing human intelligence for actionable use.

Source: http://www.aptima.com/news/2011/apti...lligence-cycle

CoABS

The Control of Agent Based System (CoABS) Grid is an advanced service-oriented architecture (SOA) that supports distributed object management; mobile computing and surrogate processing for constrained devices; multi-modal, adaptive user interfaces; collaborative computing; intelligent software; and intelligent heterogeneous data access. It supports protocol-independent communications and provides rapid, evolutionary development of user-centered information systems that can be easily integrated into legacy systems. CoABS has been developed with military applications in mind and provides a general-purpose, lightweight integration framework for a wide variety of applications. The CoABS grid is based on JINI and RMI.

The CoABS Grid is designed to integrate large-scale distributed applications from small independently developed components to meet the needs of rapidly evolving, geographically dispersed organizations. The technology's goal is to strike a practical balance between recent innovations in distributed agent technology, emerging from advanced research, and the practical demands of real-world applications.

Source: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post642131

TERN

Effective 21st-century warfare requires the ability to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike mobile targets anywhere, around the clock. Current technologies, however, have their limitations. Helicopters are relatively limited in the distance and flight time. Fixed-wing manned and unmanned aircraft can fly farther and longer but require either aircraft carriers or large, fixed land bases with runways often longer than a mile. Moreover, establishing these bases or deploying carriers requires substantial financial, diplomatic and security commitments that are incompatible with rapid response.

To help overcome these challenges and expand DoD options, DARPA has launched the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node (TERN) program. Seeking to combine the strengths of both land- and sea-based approaches to supporting airborne assets, TERN envisions using smaller ships as mobile launch and recovery sites for medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) fixed-wing unmanned aircraft (UAVs). Named after the family of seabirds known for flight endurance – many species migrate thousands of miles each year – TERN aims to make it much easier, quicker and less expensive for DoD to deploy ISR and strike capabilities almost anywhere in the world.

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"We're trying to rethink how the ship, UAV and launch and recovery domains – which have traditionally worked in parallel – can synergistically collaborate to help achieve the vision of base-independent operations for maritime or overland missions," Pat said.

Source: http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Rele...013/03/01.aspx

SeeMe

While UAVs have joined spy satellites as an indispensable part of America's military operations—especially in delivering timely, accurate intel to troops on the ground—they are not the end-all-be-all perfect solution, even in coordination. That's why DARPA plans to supplement these unmanned intelligence gathering platforms with jet-deployed constellations of micro-satellites. Soon, every grunt will have access to a real-time battlefield mini-map just in like video games.

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DARPA’s SeeMe program aims to give mobile individual US warfighters access to on-demand, space-based tactical information in remote and beyond- line-of-sight conditions. If successful, SeeMe will provide small squads and individual teams the ability to receive timely imagery of their specific overseas location directly from a small satellite with the press of a button — something that’s currently not possible from military or commercial satellites.

The program seeks to develop a constellation of small “disposable” satellites, at a fraction of the cost of airborne systems, enabling deployed warfighters overseas to hit ‘see me’ on existing handheld devices to receive a satellite image of their precise location within 90 minutes. DARPA plans SeeMe to be an adjunct to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, which provides local and regional very-high resolution coverage but cannot cover extended areas without frequent refueling. SeeMe aims to support warfighters in multiple deployed overseas locations simultaneously with no logistics or maintenance costs beyond the warfighters’ handheld devices.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5977666/darpas-se...the-fog-of-war - http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Pr...s_(SeeMe).aspx

CALO

CALO was an artificial intelligence project that attempted to integrate numerous AI technologies into a cognitive assistant. CALO is an acronym for "Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes". The name was inspired by the Latin word "calonis," which means "soldier’s servant". The project started in May 2003 and ran for five years, ending in 2008.

The CALO effort has had two major spin-offs, the Siri intelligent software assistant that is now part of the Apple iOS since iOS 5 in the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod Touch 5 and the New iPad, and the Trapit project, a web scraper that makes intelligent selections of web content based on user preferences.

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CALO was an artificial intelligence project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program. Its five-year contract brought together 300+ researchers from 25 of the top university and commercial research institutions, with the goal of building a new generation of cognitive assistants that can reason, learn from experience, be told what to do, explain what they are doing, reflect on their experience, and respond robustly to surprise.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO - https://youtube.com/watch?v=BF-KNFlOocQ

See also: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post642120 - https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post642131

[Jeffrey]

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NetSTAR

NetSTAR employs an innovative methodology that integrates a social network model of coordination, a meta-task model of enemy goals, and a Hidden-Markov Model of enemy activities to detect subgroups engaged in coordinated activities. This model enables the computation of the likelihood of the hypothesized organizational structure and processes given the observed behavior.

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In conclusion, the study demonstrated that human decision makers are capable of working with “noisy” observed data and discerning from a set of hypothesized organizational structures the organizational structure that produced the observed data,and to do so well above chance. We also observed that as participants attempted to map more detailed aspects of the organizational structure their ability sharply decreased with each increased levels of detail. This is most likely due to the fact that humans cannot consider all the information required to make these more detailed mappings. Computer algorithms like NetSTAR do not suffer from such constraints and hold the potential to greatly aid in the task of organization identification and description.

Source: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...43148975,d.aWc - http://www.academia.edu/1758337/NETS..._Decision_Tool

KRNS

U.S. intelligence experts are preparing to ask for industry's help in unlocking secrets in the nature of knowledge in an effort to improve tools and training available to intelligence analysts. This is part of an upcoming program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in Washington called Knowledge Representation in Neural Systems (KRNS).

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The KRNS program seeks to develop computer algorithms that interpret neural activity in the human brain that can help explain how the human brain represents conceptual knowledge -- or how we understand the characteristics of objects and how they relate to one another. KRNS also seeks to develop ways to evoke and measure human thought using neural imaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalography.

Source: http://www.militaryaerospace.com/art...osers-day.html - http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/ia/KRNS/krns.html

AQUAINT

With the entire Internet and thousands of databases for a brain, the device will be able to respond almost instantaneously to complex questions posed by intelligence analysts. As more and more data is collected—through phone calls, credit card receipts, social networks like Facebook and MySpace, GPS tracks, cell phone geolocation, Internet searches, Amazon book purchases, even E-Z Pass toll records—it may one day be possible to know not just where people are and what they are doing, but what and how they think.

The system is so potentially intrusive that at least one researcher has quit, citing concerns over the dangers in placing such a powerful weapon in the hands of a top-secret agency with little accountability.

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Known as Aquaint, which stands for "Advanced QUestion Answering for INTelligence," the project was run for many years by John Prange, an NSA scientist at the Advanced Research and Development Activity. Headquartered in Room 12A69 in the NSA's Research and Engineering Building at 1 National Business Park, ARDA was set up by the agency to serve as a sort of intelligence community DARPA, the place where former Reagan national security advisor John Poindexter's infamous Total Information Awareness project was born.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/nsa-police.html - http://articles.businessinsider.com/...em-amazon-book

Catalyst - AETHER - APSTARS - LSIE

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is building a computer system capable of automatically analyzing the massive quantities of data gathered across the entire intelligence community and extracting information on specific entities and their relationships to one another. The system which is called Catalyst is part of a larger effort by ODNI to create software and computer systems capable of knowledge management, entity extraction and semantic integration, enabling greater analysis and understanding of complex, multi-source intelligence throughout the government.

The intelligence community has been working for years to develop software and analytical frameworks capable of large-scale data analysis and extraction. Technological advances have now made it possible for spy agencies to not just capture the incredible amount of data flowing through public and private networks around the world, but to parse, contextualize and understand the intelligence that is being gathered. Automated software programs are now capable of integrating data into semantic systems, providing context and meaning to names, dates, photographs and practically any kind of data you can imagine.

Many agencies within the intelligence community have already created systems to do this sort of semantic integration. The Office of Naval Intelligence uses a system called AETHER “to correlate seemingly disparate entities and relationships, to identify networks of interest, and to detect patterns.” The NSA runs a program called APSTARS that provides “semantic integration of data from multiple sources in support of intelligence processing.” The CIA has a program called Quantum Leap that is designed to “find non-obvious linkages, new connections, and new information” from within a dataset. Several similar programs were even initiated by ODNI including BLACKBOOK and the Large Scale Internet Exploitation Project (LSIE).

Catalyst is an attempt to create a unified system capable of automatically extracting complex information on entities as well as the relationships between them while contextualizing this information within semantic systems. According to its specifications, Catalyst will be capable of creating detailed histories of people, places and things while mapping the interrelations that detail those entities’ interactions with the world around them.

Source: http://publicintelligence.net/meet-catalyst/

ICArUS

Sensemaking refers to the remarkable human ability to detect patterns in data, and to infer the underlying causes of those patterns - even when the data are sparse, noisy, and uncertain. The focus of the ICArUS Program is to understand and model how humans engage in the sensemaking process, both during optimal and suboptimal (biased) performance. Of particular interest are cognitive biases related to attention, memory, and decision making.

A unique aspect of ICArUS is the focus on developing neuroscience-based cognitive models of sensemaking - that is, models whose functional architecture conforms closely to that of the human brain. A key assumption of the program is that adherence to the underlying biological principles of cognition will lead to the development of models that more accurately predict human sensemaking performance in both the cognitive and behavioral domains. Although the current context (task environment) of ICArUS is on geospatial sensemaking, the goal to model the fundamental mechanisms underlying sensemaking will nonetheless illuminate the process by which analysts make sense of a variety of intelligence data.

The primary deliverables of ICArUS will be cognitive models (instantiated as executable software) that interface with a configurable, simulated geospatial task environment. ICArUS cognitive models, in conjunction with the task environment, may be used by the analytic community (including methodologists, educators, and analysts) to examine how different analytic approaches and different task parameters affect analytic outcomes. These insights, in turn, may lead to the development of new structured analytic methods that improve analysis quality by minimizing the negative impact of human cognitive bias. In addition, by illuminating the underlying neural mechanisms that give rise to human sensemaking, ICArUS research will lay the groundwork for the development of a new generation of automated analysis tools that replicate the unique strengths of human sensemaking.

Source: http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/ia/ICArUS/icarus.html

DEFT

Automated, deep natural-language processing (NLP) technology may hold a solution for more efficiently processing text information and enabling understanding connections in text that might not be readily apparent to humans. DARPA created the Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text (DEFT) program to harness the power of NLP. Sophisticated artificial intelligence of this nature has the potential to enable defense analysts to efficiently investigate orders of magnitude more documents so they can discover implicitly expressed, actionable information contained within them.

By building on the NLP technologies developed in other DARPA programs and ongoing academic research into deep language understanding and artificial intelligence, DEFT aims to address remaining capability gaps related to inference, causal relationships and anomaly detection. Improving human language technology to incorporate these capabilities is essential for enabling automated exposure of important content to facilitate analysis.

As a further aid to analysis, DEFT also aims to enable the capability to integrate individual facts into large domain models as information is processed to support assessment, planning, prediction and the initial stages of report writing. If successful, DEFT will allow analysts to move from limited, linear processing of huge sets of data to a nuanced, strategic exploration of available information.

The development of an automated solution may involve contributions from the linguistics and computer science fields in the areas of artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, machine learning, natural-language understanding, discourse and dialogue analysis, and others.

Source: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Pr...xt_(DEFT).aspx - http://semanticweb.com/darpas-deft-p...cessing_b28751

Babel

The Babel Program is developing agile and robust speech recognition technology that can be rapidly applied to any human language in order to provide effective search capability for analysts to efficiently process massive amounts of real-world recorded speech. Today’s transcription systems are built on technology that was originally developed for English, with markedly lower performance on non-English languages. These systems have often taken years to develop and cover only a small subset of the languages of the world. Babel intends to demonstrate the ability to generate a speech transcription system for any new language within one week to support keyword search performance for effective triage of massive amounts of speech recorded in challenging real-world situations.

Source: http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/ia/Babel/babel.html

ALLADIN

Massive numbers of video clips are generated daily on many types of consumer electronics and uploaded to the internet. In contrast to videos that are produced for broadcast or from planned surveillance, the "unconstrained" video clips produced by anyone who has a digital camera present a significant challenge for manual as well as automated analysis.

The Automated Low-Level Analysis and Description of Diverse Intelligence Video (ALADDIN) Program seeks to combine the state-of-the-art in video extraction, audio extraction, knowledge representation, and search technologies in a revolutionary way to create a fast, accurate, robust, and extensible technology that supports the multimedia analytic needs of the future.

Source: http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/ia/ALADDIN/aladdin.html

[RMorgan]

Hey Vivek,

Regarding the BABEL project:

http://www.infowars.com/darpa-wants-...conversations/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/darpa-speech/

They want to crowd-source the program, meaning that they want to find a way to make people record and transcribe their own conversations, to help refining their algorithms. It´s just a matter of introducing such thing as a beta feature on facebook or twitter, so people will think it´s cool and then will collaborate for free.

Cheers,

Raf.

[Jeffrey]

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Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV) UGV - Robotic Armored Assault System (RAAS)

The Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV) comes in two variants: the Assault variant and the Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) variant. The two variants share a common chasis. The Assault variant will remotely provide reconnaissance capability; deploy sensors, direct-fire weapons, and special munitions into buildings, bunkers, and other urban features; locate or by-pass threat obstacles in buildings, bunkers, and tunnels, and other urban features; assess battle damage; acts as a communications relay; supports the mounted and dismounted forces in the assault with direct fire and anti-tank (AT) weapons; and occupy key terrain and provide over-watching fires.

The Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) version will remotely provide reconnaissance capability in Urban Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) and other battlespace; deploy sensors, direct-fire weapons, and special munitions into buildings, bunkers, and other urban features; locate or by-pass threat obstacles in buildings, bunkers, tunnels, and other urban features; acts as a communications relay; and assess battle damage assessment (BDA).

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DARPA and the Army sponsored the development of the prototype UGCV [Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle] technology demonstration platforms as a part of the jointly funded Future Combat Systems (FCS) program.

Source: http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...nd/fcs-arv.htm















Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/these...t-2012-10?op=1

Boston Dynamics: BigDog, LS3, Cheetah

See also: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post642171

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UAV - UACV

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is controlled either autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle.

There are a wide variety of drone shapes, sizes, configurations, and characteristics. Historically, UAVs were simple remotely piloted aircraft, but autonomous control is increasingly being employed.

They are deployed predominantly for military applications, but also used in a small but growing number of civil applications, such as policing, firefighting, and nonmilitary security work, such as surveillance of pipelines. UAVs are often preferred for missions that are too "dull, dirty, or dangerous" for manned aircraft.

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An unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone or drone, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is armed with weaponry and has no onboard human pilot.

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Currently operational drones are predominantly under real-time human control, with "The human’s role in UCAV system [varying] according to levels of autonomy of UCAV and data communication requirement[s]."

While there are dozens of different types of drones, they basically fall into two categories: those that are used for reconnaissance and surveillance purposes and those that are armed with missiles and bombs.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanne...aerial_vehicle - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle





UCAS

Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems, or J-UCAS, was the name for the joint U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force unmanned combat air vehicle procurement project. The two vehicles involved in the project were the Boeing X-45 and Northrop Grumman X-47. J-UCAS was managed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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Over the long term, the Air Force is interested in using a UCAV as a platform to carry directed-energy weapons, initially a "high power microwave (HPM)" weapon to fry adversary electronic systems. The HPM weapon would be "fired" out an aperture on the front of the aircraft, with electronic steering used to direct the beam over an arc covering about 45 degrees to either side of the UCAV. The HPM weapon could be followed by a high power laser weapon.

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The US Navy has executed the first launch of a stealth drone set to be the first robot aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence.

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After five-years in the making, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator completed its first land-based catapult launch, “marking the start for a new era of naval aviation,” the navy announced on Thursday.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_U...at_Air_Systems - http://rt.com/usa/us-drone-launch-autonomous-986/

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5FnkCak9ezg

See also: DARPA HCV/Blackswift Programs

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Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics builds advanced robots with remarkable behavior: mobility, agility, dexterity and speed. We use sensor-based controls and computation to unlock the capabilities of complex mechanisms. Our world-class development teams take projects from initial concept to proof-of-principle prototyping to build-test-build engineering, to field testing and low-rate production.

Organizations worldwide, from DARPA, the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps to Sony Corporation turn to Boston Dynamics for advice and for help creating the most advanced robots on Earth.

Source: http://www.bostondynamics.com

PETMAN - Atlas







See also: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post642162

[skippy]

An interesting philosophical perspective on modern technology from the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. For example page 9: "Technology is in its essence something that human beings cannot master of their own accord."

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QUEST

Fundamental discoveries in quantum information science have potential for dramatic impact on technologies related to modern military platforms. Key examples are the exponential speedup of critical computations such as with Shor's prime factoring quantum algorithm and secure quantum communication protocols. Other examples include sensing, image processing and metrology. While considerable progress has been made in recent years in understanding the fundamentals of quantum information science on both experimental and theoretical sides, many fundamental issues and challenges remain unresolved.

The goal of the Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology (QuEST) program is to investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in the fundamental understanding of quantum information science related to small quantum systems.

The objective of QuEST is to identify and address the most important outstanding challenges and opportunities, both experimental and theoretical, and resolve or exploit them to enable revolutionary advances in the field of quantum information science and technology.

Source: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/MTO/Pr...y_(QUEST).aspx

QCS

The IARPA Quantum Computer Science (QCS) Program explores questions relating to the computational resources required to run quantum algorithms on realistic quantum computers.

Any implementation of a quantum algorithm requires not only programming the algorithm at a logical level but also the incorporation of error correction and control schemes at the physical level, and resource estimation must account for all of these factors. The QCS program is developing a tool chain to study these issues throughout the computing process.

The tools will include an integrated development environment for the quantum programming languages already developed by the program, compilers to generate logical circuits, and tools for analyzing quantum error correction and control protocols. Through its research QCS will build a foundation for measuring and reducing the resources required to program and implement complex quantum algorithms of realistic size.

Source: http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/sso/QCS/qcs.html - http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/sso/MQCO/mqco.html

UHPC

DARPA's Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program seeks "to create an innovative, revolutionary new generation of computing systems that overcomes the limitations of current evolutionary approach," the agency said in a statement. Companies involved in the project include Intel and Nvidia.

The UHPC program addresses priorities set out by President Obama's "Strategy for American Innovation" to achieve "exascale" and energy-efficient computing, DARPA said. One exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, the speed of the fastest supercomputers today.

While citing Moore's Law--which states that the number of transistors placed on an integrated circuit roughly doubles every two years--DARPA said the "ability to achieve projected performance gains is limited by significant power consumption, architectural and programming complexity issues."

To answer this challenge, DARPA's goal is to develop high-performance computers that use a lot less energy per computation. "The goal of DARPA's UHPC program is to reinvent computing. It plans to develop radically new computer architectures and programming models that are 100 to 1,000 times more energy efficient, with higher performance, and that are easier to program than current systems," according to the agency.

The four companies and organizations selected to develop UHPC prototype systems are Intel, Nvidia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratory. Georgia Institute of Technology was selected to lead an Applications, Benchmarks and Metrics team for evaluating the UHPC systems under development, DARPA said.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20013088-64.html - http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/MTO/Pr...ng_(UHPC).aspx - http://hagi.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MCP/

UltraScale - MCP

Molecular Computation Project (MCP) is an attempt to harness the computational power of molecules for information processing.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information Technology Office (DARPA/ITO) supports research in technology for defense-critical applications. Defense Applications are always insatiable consumers of computing. Futuristic applications such as automated image interpretation/whole vehicle radar-cross-section/real-time prototyping/faster-than-real-time simulation will require computing capabilities orders-of-magnitude beyond the best performance that can be projected from contemporary scalable parallel processors. To reach beyond the silicon digital paradigm, DARPA has initiated a program in UltraScale Computing to explore the domain of innovative computational models, methods, and mechanisms. The objective is to encourage a complete re-thinking of computing. Novel architectures, program synthesis, and execution environments are needed as well as alternative underlying physical mechanisms including molecular, biological, optical and quantum mechanical processes.

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DARPA program manager wanted to close the gap between electronic computer processing and human processing capabilities. DBS worked to define and create new DARPA program, Ultrascale Computing (which included DNA and biological computing, amorphous computing, quantum computing, and man-machine interfaces).

Source: http://www.definedbusiness.com/gover...t-research.php - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997APS..CPC...N05M

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ART

The Adaptive RF Technology (ART) program aims to significantly advance the hardware used in handheld communication radios by developing a fully adaptive and reconfigurable architecture that is agnostic to specified waveform and standards; i.e., ART-enabled radios will be able to cognitively choose to operate in any frequency band with any modulation and multiple access specification depending on the restrictions of the environmental and operating conditions.

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In addition to maintaining critical communication links, ART will equip each warfighter, as well as small-scale unmanned platforms, with a compact and powerful signal sensing and analysis platform capable of characterizing the signal environment. ART will also enable rapid radio platform deployment for new waveforms and changing operational requirements.

Source: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/MTO/Pr...ies_(ART).aspx

ORCA

The Optical RF Communications Adjunct (ORCA) program seeks to develop combined radio frequency (RF) & free space optical (FSO) communications, as well as networking technologies that exploit the benefits of complementary path diversity. ORCA will develop RF and FSO propagation channel analysis, coding techniques, and modeling to include weather, atmospherics and aero-optics to provide the joint force commander assured high-data rate communications. The technical objective is to prototype and flight-demonstrate hybrid FSO/RF air-to-air-to ground links that combine the best attributes of both technologies and simulate hybrid network performance.

Source: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/STO/Pr...ct_(ORCA).aspx - http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Nort...twork_999.html

HAARP

The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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The most prominent instrument at the HAARP Station is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency (HF) band.

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The HAARP project directs a 3.6 MW signal, in the 2.8–10 MHz region of the HF (high-frequency) band, into the ionosphere. The signal may be pulsed or continuous. Then, effects of the transmission and any recovery period can be examined using associated instrumentation, including VHF and UHF radars, HF receivers, and optical cameras.

According to the HAARP team, this will advance the study of basic natural processes that occur in the ionosphere under the natural but much stronger influence of solar interaction, and how the natural ionosphere affects radio signals.

This will enable scientists to develop methods to mitigate these effects to improve the reliability or performance of communication and navigation systems which would have a wide range of both civilian and military uses, such as an increased accuracy of GPS navigation and advances in underwater and underground research and applications. This may lead to improved methods for submarine communication or an ability to remotely sense and map the mineral content of the terrestrial subsurface, and perhaps underground complexes, of regions or countries, among other things.

The current facility lacks the range to reach these countries, but the research could be used to develop a mobile platform.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Fr...search_Program

100G

DARPA has begun development of a wireless communications link that is capable of 100 gigabits per second over a range of 200 kilometers (124mi). Officially dubbed “100 Gb/s RF Backbone” (or 100G for short), the program will provide the US military with networks that are around 500 times faster than its current wireless links.

In essence, DARPA wants to give deployed soldiers the same kind of connectivity as a high-bandwidth, low-latency fiber-optic network.

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Common Data Link (CDL) is a secure wireless protocol that networks together a US military deployment, for shuttling around imagery, intelligence, orders, and so on. UAVs, aircraft carriers, helicopters, forward operating bases — they’re all connected together via wireless CDL links, bounced via high-altitude aircraft or orbiting satellites. Exact, up-to-date specs are hard to come by, but it seems like the US military’s existing CDL links max out at around 250Mbps. DARPA now wants to push these speeds up to 100Gbps, while using equipment that retains the same weight/power requirements of CDL — i.e. these 100G systems must be deployable in the field.

Suffice it to say, transmitting 100Gbps through the air is rather difficult; your home WiFi network probably maxes out at around 100Mbps, some thousand times slower.

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DARPA clearly states that the 100G program is for US military use — but it’s hard to ignore the repercussions it might have on commercial networks, too.

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While DARPA is looking at this from a purely military perspective, 100-gigabit wireless connections could have much larger ramifications for wireless carriers. They may allow for the creation of temporary network backbones in response to disasters.

Source: http://www.extremetech.com/computing...120-mile-range - http://arstechnica.com/information-t...0gb-bandwidth/

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Utah Data Center

Fort Meade Data Center

Cascade and Aries Interconnect

Multiprogram Computational Data Center at ORNL

Titan at ORNL

Sequoia

Defense Supercomputing Resource Center

Vesuvius

NIVIDIA Exascale

See also: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post637716

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Go back to post #487 and re-read up until this post. This isn't even a conspiracy, it's hiding in plain daylight.

See also: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post633039