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DARPA has dozens of projects. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.asp?ArtNum=59 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.asp?ArtNum=... W

DARPA has dozens of projects. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.asp?ArtNum=59 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.asp?ArtNum=... We have self-driving cars and the Internet because of DARPA. It sort of like a government sponsored X-Prize.

godelmachine 9y ago
Self driving cars because of DARPA? Hmmmm. Interesting. Gotta read up on that. May I ask name of the Genesis project for self driving cars?
- dogma1138 9y ago
  I was the Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) program and it lead to the pioneering of neural networks by CMU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilP4aPDTBPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilP4aPDTBPE http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2874&context=compsci http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2874&c...
  - melling 9y ago
    The idea of neural networks go back a lot further than CMU. http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/ai/a-brief-history-of-neural-nets-and-deep-learning/ http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/ai/a-brief-history-of-...
    - dogma1138 9y ago
      I should’ve been more clear IIRC ALVINN was the first ANN based computer vision decision making implementation in the world at the time. It was also one of the first practical applications of an ANN in general.
- melling 9y ago
  The DARPA Grand Challenge. NOVA has a special on it. It might be on YouTube too.’ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/
  - godelmachine 9y ago
    Oh yes this is it!! I was trying to remember DARPA Grand Challenge as a possible candidate for one of the DARPA programs to pioneer Computer Vision in self driving vehicles. Also had Sebastian Thrun lingering in my subconscious. But then thought the real DARPA program that gave us self driving cars must be somewhere in 70's or 80's
systematical 9y ago
DARPA needs to be unleashed on global warming. Their has to be a means of "scooping" CO2 and other green house gases out of the sky with autonmous solar powered drones and breaking them down, for instance breakdown CO2 to Carbon and Oxygen. The idea may sound absurd but I believe it threads the needle of the GOPs love for defense spending and opposition to negative economic impacts, with everyone elses desire to save the planet.
- deleted 9y ago
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- jwatte 9y ago
  The machine that turns CO2, sunlight, and water into sugar and oxygen is already invented. Unfortunately, we're poisoning the most important instance (in the oceans) and clearing another (in developing countries) wholesale, leading to less biomass where there needs to be more.
  - cryptonector 9y ago
    Forests are coming back and have been for a while. Back in the 90s the Clinton Administration made a big deal of this during the Kyoto negotiations.

godelmachine 9y ago

Self driving cars because of DARPA? Hmmmm. Interesting. Gotta read up on that. May I ask name of the Genesis project for self driving cars?

dogma1138 9y ago
I was the Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) program and it lead to the pioneering of neural networks by CMU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilP4aPDTBPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilP4aPDTBPE http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2874&context=compsci http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2874&c...
- melling 9y ago
  The idea of neural networks go back a lot further than CMU. http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/ai/a-brief-history-of-neural-nets-and-deep-learning/ http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/ai/a-brief-history-of-...
  - dogma1138 9y ago
    I should’ve been more clear IIRC ALVINN was the first ANN based computer vision decision making implementation in the world at the time. It was also one of the first practical applications of an ANN in general.
melling 9y ago
The DARPA Grand Challenge. NOVA has a special on it. It might be on YouTube too.’ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/
- godelmachine 9y ago
  Oh yes this is it!! I was trying to remember DARPA Grand Challenge as a possible candidate for one of the DARPA programs to pioneer Computer Vision in self driving vehicles. Also had Sebastian Thrun lingering in my subconscious. But then thought the real DARPA program that gave us self driving cars must be somewhere in 70's or 80's

systematical 9y ago

DARPA needs to be unleashed on global warming. Their has to be a means of "scooping" CO2 and other green house gases out of the sky with autonmous solar powered drones and breaking them down, for instance breakdown CO2 to Carbon and Oxygen. The idea may sound absurd but I believe it threads the needle of the GOPs love for defense spending and opposition to negative economic impacts, with everyone elses desire to save the planet.

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jwatte 9y ago
The machine that turns CO2, sunlight, and water into sugar and oxygen is already invented. Unfortunately, we're poisoning the most important instance (in the oceans) and clearing another (in developing countries) wholesale, leading to less biomass where there needs to be more.
- cryptonector 9y ago
  Forests are coming back and have been for a while. Back in the 90s the Clinton Administration made a big deal of this during the Kyoto negotiations.