» advanced scientific research http://www.lokitimes.com Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:30:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Ongoing Research Excerpts from DARPA’s Strategic Plan http://www.lokitimes.com/2009/05/20/ongoing-research-excerpts-from-darpas-strategic-plan/ http://www.lokitimes.com/2009/05/20/ongoing-research-excerpts-from-darpas-strategic-plan/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 18:09:52 +0000 The Loki Man http://www.lokitimes.com/?p=645 DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) recently released a 50+ page strategic plan highlighting some of the most advance research projects it is currently undertaking.  On page 9, section 2.6, DARPA outlines a “short list” of ongoing research.  We list the highlights here.

  1. High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System – You heard it here.  These are small high power laser weapons, i.e. weapons that shoot energy beams at the speed of light.  That’s fast.
  2. High Productivity Computing Systems – a.k.a. Super computers a.k.a. SKYNET from the Terminator mythos.
  3. Machine Learning – Cognitive machines.  Hmmm.  Again, we’ll reference SKYNET and Terminator.
  4. Neuroscience – In specific, projects that’ll create brain-machine interfaces.  Is this putting us one step closer to The Matrix?
  5. Real-Time Accurate Language Translation – Tower of Babel my ass.
  6. Space – , here we come.

Scary, but real, stuff.  You can find the full report here.

Which one of these research projects would you most like to see come to fruition?

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