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DARPA Network Challenge Celebrates Internet With Contest: Find Balloons, Win Money

Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Internet 40, DARPA Contest, DARPA Networking Challenge, Darpa, DARPA Balloons, DARPA Network Challenge, DARPA Challenge, Internet at 40, DARPA Balloon, DARPA Internet, Technology News

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Agency, has announced a competition honoring the 40th anniversary of the Internet. The gist of the DARPA Networ...

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From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Soviets, World Wide Web, 40th, Pentagon, Mosaic, Bulletin Board, Spam, Net, Netscape, Nuclear, China, Intergalactic Computer Network, Cold War, Britain, Personal Computer, England, Internet, Cern, 40, Malware, Apple, Pc, Russia, Usenet, Russians, Technology, Computer, Gopher, Space Race, Steve Jobs, Www, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Darpa, Lovely Spam, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Swords Into Plowshares, Botnet, Soviet Union, Birthday, Wonderful Spam, Html, Sputnik, Trojan, Hormel, Arpanet, Spiced Ham, Ucla, Chris Weigant, Virus, Spam Spam Spam Spam, Apple II, Hypertext, Steve Wozniak, World War II, Monty Python, Worm, Happy 40th Birthday Internet, Compuserve, Lan, Milnet, Technology News
Chris Weigant

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

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The Ultimate Health Care Solution, and What You Can and Must Do

Lou Weisbach | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cures Council, Cancer, American Center for Cures, Darpa, Nih, Health Reform, National Institutes of Health, Politics News
Lou Weisbach

Americans spend at least a trillion dollars treating the effects of diseases and less than five percent of that preventing and finding cures to those diseases. It is not rational.

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Web of the Future: Building a Faster, More Secure and Egalitarian Internet

Vinton G. Cerf | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google, Malware, Julius Genachowski, Darpa, Vint Cerf, Arpanet, Technology News
Vinton G. Cerf

We can anticipate the need for a kind of International Law of the Net in the future. Such concepts can also provide better support for international and domestic electronic commerce.

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Pentagon Telepathy Program Wants Soldiers To Communicate Through Neural Signals On Battlefield

Danger Room | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon Telepathy Program, Pentagon, US Soldiers in Afghanistan, US Soldiers, War Wire, Darpa, Pentagon Telepathy, Us Soldiers Afghanistan, World News

Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs, or even those infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they're goin...

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Blowing Things Up: In Praise of a Pyrotechnical Education

Dan Dubno | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Competitiveness, Research, Homeland Security, Science, Barack Obama, Explosion, Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Education, Office of Naval Research, Dan Dubno, Obama Budget, Dean Kamen, Robotics, FIRST Robotics National Championship, Bombing, Darpa, China, Business News
Dan Dubno

I'm not suggesting we raise a nation of pyromaniacs. But youthful experimentation is a prerequisite to innovation, to giving kids "license to think outside the box."

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A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People

Randall Amster | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Google, Internet, Google Earth, Twitter, Gps, Darpa, Total Information Awareness, Information Age, Surveillance, Shadow Government, Information Technology, Facebook, Myspace, Big Brother, New World Order, Brave New World, Media News
Randall Amster

Who else would you want keeping track of stuff, watching your back (and front), fighting our undeclared cyber-wars, and making the trains run on time? Next stop, Googletopia!

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Alternative Fuel: Air Force Spending To Be Greener By 2011

Treehugger | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green

Read More: US Military, Darpa, Air Force Algae Jet Fuel, Renewable Energy, Algae, Algae Jet Fuel, Air Force, Green Technology, Algae Biofuel, Green News

Science Applications International Corp. has announced that it has been awarded a $25 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc...

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Bottom Line: 2008 Car/Truck Sales Probably Worst Since 1974

Steve Parker | Posted 02.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Ebay, Treasury Department, Porsche, Automotive News, Paris Dakar Rally, Wall Street Bailout, Congress, Hank Paulson, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Chrysler, Ford Mustang, Detroit Lions, Cars, Detroit News, Ford, Highland Park, Supercharger, Dodge Durango Hybrid, General Motors, Chad Hall, Dodge Challenger, Chrysler EVs, Chevy Cobalt, 1974 Oil Embargo, Detroit, Carroll Shelby, Off-Road, Baja 1000, Porsche Panamera, Detroit Bailout, Chrysler Aspen Hybrid, Pickups, FICO Score, Chevy Cruze, Minivan, Hilton Hotels, Nascar, Detroit Three, Gm, Robby Gordon, Mexico, Washington DC, Daewoo, Rod Hall, Tokyo, Gmac, TARP and Auto Bailout, Seoul, Detroit Three Loans, San Jose Del Cabo, Hummer Sale, gt500, Darpa, Stuttgart, SUV Sales, Detroit Auto Show, Business News
Steve Parker

The only other time the industry has seen a 3-million (or more) unit plunge was following the 1974 oil shortage.

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Re-establishing NASA's Leadership

Peter Diamandis | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Exploration, Transition, Apollo, Nasa, Darpa, Space, Obama Transition, Google Lunar XPrize, X Prize Foundation, Business News
Peter Diamandis

So long a source of national pride and inspiration as well as cutting edge research, NASA is now losing its position of world leadership.

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IBM Joins Pentagon In Attempt To Create Electronic Cat Brains

Wired | Posted 11.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Pentagon, Dod, Cats, Ibm, Animals, Darpa, Catbrains, Lolcats, Military Budget, Green News

IBM is that latest company to join in the Pentagon's quest to make electronics that mimic the "function, size, and power consumption" of a cat's brain...

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