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• NSF backs development of laser-guided robot wheelchairs

  
  Engadget — Authority: 880
  Its been well over a year since we last saw the laser-guided, self-docking wheelchair developed by folks at Lehigh University, and now the team is back with an altogether more ambitious project. According to associate professor John Spletzer, the recipient of a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science ...
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• Introducing DARPA

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Dear Readers, Today is Zero Hedges ten month anniversary.  What started off as an experiment in focused distributed content has become a site which has clocked over 30 million hits, has over five hundred thousand recurring monthly readers, and touches on virtually every aspect of economics, finance and capital ...
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• How Can Government Spark Innovation?

  
  BusinessWeek.com -- Technology — Authority: 747
  Alec Ross, senior advisor on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, discusses how governments at home and abroad can fuel inventive thinking. Companies such as Google and Cisco, he says, have gained from public funding
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• Deep Inside DARPA

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  Dr. James Hughes interviews Michael Belfiore on his book (The Department of Mad Scientists) about DARPA.
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• Walrus Heavy-Lift Blimp Rises, Falls… Rises?

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 567
  [by John MacNeill ] Goo goo g’joob! In April 2005, “ USN, DARPA See Blimps & HULAs Rising ”, looked at a range of projects on the drawing board, including the Walrus heavy-transport blimp (that’s “heavy” as in “1-2 million pounds”) which offered the potential for a faster and more versatile ...
  6 days ago

• Paracast’s Tribute To Mac Tonnies and Project Kugelblitz

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 123
  Gene Steinberg and David Biedny celebrate the life of Fortean/science-fiction writer Mac Tonnies on the November 1st, 2009 Paracast with guests Greg Bishop, Patrick Huyghe, Paul Kimball and Nick Redfern, people who were close friends or worked with Tonnies on various projects. A very touching send-off for ...
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• Pentagon Unveils New Chembot

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 144
  via cnet The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army Research Office awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to iRobot to create the flexible military bot. The maker of the Roomba and Scooba, along with University of Chicago researchers, showed off the oozy results at the Iros conference (the ...
  1 week ago

• DARPA Network Challenge: Celebrating 40 Years of Internet

  
  ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network — Authority: 414
  On October 29, 1969 at 10:30PM, UCLA student Charley Kline sent the letters “LO” from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park using the ARPANET. Forty years later, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is celebrating the birth of the Internet with a contest that tests its ...
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• Fully Autonomous Audi TTS to Race at Mad Pikes Peak Rally Circuit [Cars]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
      Forget the Darpa’s urban challenge . This fully automated Audi TTS—equipped with GPS, sensors, and guidance systems—is set to race on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a crazy 19.99-kilometer rally race circuit with 156 turns. Read more from the original source: Fully Autonomous Audi TTS to ...
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• "And here is a red balloon.. I think of DARPA and note its exact coordinates"

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  "To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge .... The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of ten moored, 8 foot, red weather balloons located at ten fixed locations in the continental United States. Balloons will be in readily accessible locations and ...
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• Space Review: Augustine, Robotics and Distributed Satellites

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 517
  The Space Review has four new essays this week: The Planetary Society’s Louis Friedman writes an open letter to Obama urging the President to calls the Augustine commission report into and a blueprint for a bold new space exploration program; Jeff Foust reports on some of the important space policy issues that ...
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• Indy Transponder 02-NOV-09 1130z

  
  Indy Transponder — Authority: 439
  Red Arrows pilot in £5m crash after he fails to put his jets wheels down - Mirror.co.uk A high-flying Red Arrows pilot wrote off a £5million jet following a cockpit cock-up over the landing wheels. ... Air-treat man hits eject by mistake - The Sun The unnamed guest had been given special permission to ...
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• Stabby the Narwhal (link roundup)

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 690
  Dr. Seuss parody by Jim Benton , who has original art on sale here . Via . And a few more links: 1. Princess Mononoke sculpture . 2. Find balloons spread across the country to win a DARPA contest . Via these sites . 3. Doping and judging scandals at the Chinese National Games. *Previously: ...
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• Happy birthday Internet, here’s $40,000

  
  Hack a Day — Authority: 693
  Darpa has another contest coming up. You may remember some past Darpa competitions, like the 2007 Urban Challenge . Where hackers, engineers, and scientists alike came together to build autonomous vehicles. The game this year is to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Internet. The rules are simple enough, find ...
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• The Computer that Made the Internet [Retromodo]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
        This is Dr. Read more: The Computer that Made the Internet [Retromodo]
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• The Phraselator: A Universal Translator Can’t Be Far

  
  Gadgetreview — Authority: 608
  So I was digging around when I found DARPArama , kind of a clearinghouse of prototypes and ideas and whatnot out of DARPA, or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. And I started reading about the Phraselator…and frankly, you’re not going to believe this. The Phraselator is a voice recognition based ...
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• DARPA Network Challenge: Win $40,000 by Finding 10 Red Weather Balloons [Darpa]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  To celebrate the Webs 40th anniversary , DARPA wants to explore social networkings role in time-critical communication. Its offering $40,000 in hard cash to the first entrant who finds ten 8-foot weather balloons located at fixed locations around the U.S. Registration begins on December 1, and the balloons will ...
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• DARPA Challenge: Find 10 Red Weather Balloons, Win $US40,000

  
  autotechie.com — Authority: 157
  To celebrate the Web’s 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking’s role in time-critical communication. They will award $US40,000 cash to the first group who finds 10 2.4-metre weather balloons located at fixed locations around the US (more…) See the rest here:  DARPA Challenge: Find 10 Red ...
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• MIT’s Affective Intelligent Driving Agent is KITT and Clippy’s lovechild (video)

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
            If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times, stop trying to make robots into ” friendly companions !” MIT must have some hubris stuck in its ears, as its labs are back at it with what looks like Clippy gone 3D, with an extra dash of Knight Rider -inspired personality. What we’re ...
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• Griefing the DARPA Network Challenge

  
  Dumb Things I Have Done Lately — Authority: 108
  I took a quick look at the DARPA Network Challenge site (on December 5th, theyll fly ten red 8-foot diameter moored weather balloons; the first person to register the locations of all ten will win $40,000). Also, I read the rules (which Im not sure very many commenters have bothered to do yet, since theyre in ...
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