Yeah, kinda figured that it would be good to delve into, but I'm involved with something else right now and don't have time to get side-tracked. I take it the link worked, you might want to check out and copy the "personnel" link for future references... just a suggestion. There are some valuable researchers names there.

Wow some of these are really neat, thanks for posting this!

The Education Dominance Program will enable students to learn at their own pace, in their own style, with their own Digital Tutor. In this way, students will not simply memorize information, but they will learn and understand the concepts upon which this information is built. They will train to a standard of competence, not rote recall, in order to demonstrate significant improvements in mastery of complex concepts. Novices trained on Digital Tutor will acquire accelerated problem-solving capabilities with the goal being to enable them to be competitive with experienced operational experts. Education Dominance focuses on several key approaches: * Replicating expert tutor behavior using knowledge engineering techniques. * Modeling intrinsic motivation and memory to optimize learning and consolidation. * Building student/tutor models based on abstractions of a wide range of student behaviors with live tutors. * Incorporating remediation strategies to enable the Digital Tutor to provide targeted reinforcement.

It's a Pip Boy! I knew those Fallout bastards knew something.

Originally posted by Magnivea


It's a Pip Boy! I knew those Fallout bastards knew something.

I saw that and thought the exact same thing.

Wow!! I urge everyone cruising through this thread to take the time and read some of the Bio's of the Program Managers under the Personnel tab on that website. Have a look at the Programs and completed Programs of these managers. Very interesting stuff; time to do a little research?!

Why would DARPA release a list like this? Wouldn't R&D for the department of defense be kind of top secret?

Originally posted by dethduck
Why would DARPA release a list like this? Wouldn't R&D for the department of defense be kind of top secret?

This is most likely technology that is either intended to impress/demoralize military opposition, or it is technology that is antiquated according to their current catalog. Perhaps both.

Where's the Chameleon Camo project? I know for a fact, while serving in the reserves, they were working on that. Drunk Flag Grade Officer's used to clamor on about how we'd be able to sneak up and slit throats with ease.

They have had info like this public for a long time, this is nothing new. Very cool stuff in there though.

Some of the highly top secret military stuff gets a start with DARPA using programs such as the ones listed, once those programs show promise they move to corporations and contractors that take it from there and you never hear anything of them again (unless your in the "business" or are an enemy of the USA, lol) As I've been told, most of the high tech weapon systems are developed at the request of the military privately outside of any DARPA involvement, so most of this DARPA stuff is pie in the sky dreaming, but they do it because of the occasional diamond in the rough they produce.

I have only been involved in one thing that was a result of DARPA funding a program such as some of these. I only got to see a small part of it, but it blew my frigging mind for sure, I had no idea that there was technology in my field that was so far advanced...but the thing that really blew my skirt up is the mind blowing technology that must be behind the manufacturing of the stuff I was exposed to (yeah, I'm a nerd, I didn't really care about the product I was exposed to much, just how in the hell they were making it, lol).

The Human-Assisted Neural Devices (HAND) Program is developing the fundamental research that will enable the use of neural activity to provide closed loop control and restore natural function through assistive devices.

By directly harnessing the ability of neural pathways to operate natural systems, the HAND Program seeks to provide means of restoring the lives of injured warfighters.

Research conducted by HAND performers provides the basis for devices that will aid in recovery from short- and long-term memory deficits caused by traumatic injury as well as restoration of functional use of motor system. Previous work in the program has formed the basis for the Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program, which seeks to create a dramatically improved artificial arm for military amputees.

Moving forward, the HAND Program seeks to continue to develop and characterize the fundamental processes that the brain uses to perform tasks.

"ghost in the shell" world is not far

Engineered Bio-Molecular Nano-Devices/Systems Program Manager: Dr. Cindy Daniell

The Engineered Bio-Molecular Nano-Devices/Systems (MOLDICE) Program has developed and demonstrated novel hybrid (biotic-abiotic) nanoscale interface technologies that enable direct, real-time conversion of bio-molecular signals into electrical signals. Biological systems exhibit remarkable sensitivity, selectivity, and efficiency that could be exploited in engineering systems should appropriate interfaces become available. Biological systems have well-defined sensing units, signal processing units, and actuation sub-systems that determine responses to specific stimuli. While significant effort has gone into understanding the sensing systems of biology (e.g., receptor and transmembrane proteins), the intra-cellular signal processing system is still the subject of many ongoing research efforts. The objective of this program is to develop hybrid bio-molecular devices/systems that use biological units (e.g., Protein Ion Channels/Nanopores, G-Protein Coupled Receptors, etc.) for performing the sensing function but use silicon circuitry to accomplish the signal processing. Innovative ideas will be explored for the development of interfaces (to ion channels and receptors) that enable the real-time (temporal) transduction of molecular (stochastic) events into electrical signals. A critical focus of this program is the exploitation of temporal (kinetic) information for the real-time analysis and detection of molecular targets.

scary to me.

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Maybe this is where the TV series "LOST" came up with the Dharma Initiative. - Sorry, I just couldn't resist seeing how this is way over my head.

and to think these are the stuff they let us know about. can you imagine the things they are doing that we don't know about? they could already have humans with 9 head and 18 arms already.

Thanks so much for posting this link. It has provided hours of entertainment! And, plenty of great ideas for stories. I really love reading all this stuff, and wonder what kinds of interesting things they are doing off the books as well.

Cool stuff. Star & Flag!