CIA's DARPA working on human-brain-mimicking tech2011-07-14 06:47 by DanielaTags: DARPA, CIA, Internet
The company that built the first ever Internet nodes back in the 1960s – has been hired by the Central Intelligence Agency to work on technology which could mimic "the brain's ability to make sense of large amounts of haphazard, partial information". DARPA's various successes for the military over the decades since have inspired the CIA and US intelligence agencies to start up their own version of the famous bureau, calling it the Intelligence Advanced Research projects Agency (IARPA). Now, BBN – owned by US arms giant Raytheon – says it has won a $3m deal from IARPA to "explore how the brain processes massive amounts of fragmented data". The funding comes from IARPA's backronym-tastic Integrated Cognitive-Neuroscience Architectures for Understanding Sensemaking (ICARUS) programme. Read more -here-
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