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A Smear of DNA Can Hold 10,000 Gigabytes of Data
February 05, 2020
OneZero - Around the world, warehouses the size of several football fields store millions of hard drives’ worth of data. ... For the past few years, researchers have been tinkering...
A new $5M competition to help the Pentagon detect deepfakes
December 27, 2019
Congress directed IARPA to lead the development of technologies that can detect deepfakes. Read More...
UC Santa Cruz collaborates $14M project to advance cryptographic computing technologies
November 12, 2019
UC Santa Cruz - Cryptographic techniques for computing have evolved rapidly over the past decade. Many advanced techniques are gaining traction in real-world applications, due in l...
The Intelligence Community is Exploring Long-Range Biometric Identification
September 16, 2019
Nextgov - The intelligence community is working to build biometric identification systems that can single out individuals from hundreds of yards away or more, a feat that’s virtual...
IARPA working on ways to protect Artificial Intelligence (AI) training data from malicious tampering
September 06, 2019
IARPA has laid the groundwork for two programs focused on ways to overcome adversarial machine learning and prevent adversaries from using AI tools against users. Read Mo...
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
June 01, 2019
The Atlantic - ...In 2005, [Philip] Tetlock published his results, and they caught the attention of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, a government org...
A Contest to Beat Geopolitical "Superforecasters"
May 14, 2019
Axios - Four years ago, a team of researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania wowed the U.S. intelligence community by producing a superior new way to forecast geopolitical...
Identifying Trojans in AI
May 08, 2019
GCN - With the rise of adversarial AI, government researchers are looking for ways to automatically inspect artificial intelligence and machine learning systems to see i...
IARPA Expands Research on Protecting AI Systems from Tampering
April 19, 2019
Biometric Update - The U.S. government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is planning a pair of programs to prevent training data from being maliciously tam...
To upgrade quantum computers, researchers look to materials science
April 12, 2019
Chemical and Engineering News - For decades, theoretical physicists and computer scientists have been compiling evidence that quantum computers will eventually leave ou...