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Could artificial intelligence be responsible for the next big leak of classified information? Not if the intelligence, Advanced Research Projects activity can help with it. IARPA is exploring what comes next with its AI cybersecurity research. For more, Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Mapa cerebral detallado: Investigadores cartografían un milímetro cúbico de cerebro de ratón con 3,2 kilómetros de conexiones neuronales Por Félix Riaño @LocutorCo Un equipo científico superó los límites de la neurociencia al mapear millones de sinapsis en un fragmento cerebral microscópico. En 1979, el Nobel Francis Crick consideró que era imposible descifrar la maraña interna de un minúsculo trozo de cerebro. Décadas después, más de cien expertos reunieron 1,6 petabytes de información para demostrar lo contrario. Han analizado un milímetro cúbico de tejido cerebral de ratón que contiene millones de sinapsis y más de 3 kilómetros de filamentos neuronales. Las imágenes en alta resolución, capturadas mediante microscopía electrónica y combinadas con inteligencia artificial, han abierto nuevas ventanas para comprender enfermedades como Alzheimer o Parkinson. Este nivel de detalle asombra, porque revela patrones de conexiones que antes eran un misterio. ¿Qué hallazgos van a descubrir luego con esta nueva cartografía? La complejidad neuronal también despierta dudas sobre su verdadero alcance El proyecto MICrONS tomó un milímetro cúbico del cerebro visual de un ratón y lo partió en unas 25.000 secciones. Cada sección fue fotografiada con microscopio electrónico para obtener una visión detallada de cada célula. Esos datos se combinaron con grabaciones de la actividad cerebral en vida, mientras el animal miraba videos y contenidos en una pantalla. Luego, expertos de Princeton organizaron toda esa información en un modelo tridimensional. Así, se obtuvo el mapa de cientos de miles de neuronas con millones de sinapsis, en un volumen del tamaño aproximado de un grano de arena. Estas redes neuronales se representan con tonos de colores vivos que muestran cada célula y cada circuito, como si fuera un bosque iluminado. La gran dificultad surge al querer entender cómo se comunican las neuronas en semejante densidad de conexiones. Cada célula envía impulsos eléctricos y sustancias químicas a cientos o miles de células vecinas. Aun con la tecnología disponible, es complicado detectar si una neurona establece un vínculo directo o si su señal pasa por varias estaciones intermedias. Además, surge la necesidad de corregir errores en el trazado automático de rutas neuronales. El volumen masivo de datos —que puede equivaler a 22 años de video HD ininterrumpido— requiere enormes recursos computacionales y trabajo humano para revisar y ajustar. Esto explica por qué Francis Crick pensó que era un reto inalcanzable. Los avances fueron posibles gracias a algoritmos de inteligencia artificial y a un arduo trabajo en equipo. La reconstrucción final de este milímetro cúbico de cerebro de ratón aporta evidencias sobre cómo las células inhibitorias y excitatorias se organizan. Estas últimas son responsables de encender la actividad neuronal, mientras que las inhibitorias se encargan de regular y refinar ese impulso. Se creía que las células inhibitorias funcionaban como un simple freno. Ahora, se sabe que eligen de manera muy precisa a qué neuronas controlar. Este entramado complejo, repleto de detalles microscópicos, se vuelve un banco de pruebas para las teorías del aprendizaje profundo en máquinas y abre caminos para entender enfermedades neuronales. Las conclusiones podrían brindar nuevas pistas sobre la conciencia, la inteligencia y los trastornos que interrumpen la comunicación interna del cerebro. Investigadores de prestigiosas instituciones afirman que esta cartografía digital es comparable al Proyecto Genoma Humano por su valor transformador. Todo indica que vamos a seguir aprendiendo mucho de esta región cerebral diminuta. La iniciativa surgió como parte del MICrONS Project, financiado por la agencia IARPA en Estados Unidos. Baylor College of Medicine recabó datos de actividad cerebral en ratones despiertos. El Allen Institute se encargó de cortar el tejido en láminas ultrafinas de unas 0,25 micrómetros de grosor (casi 1/400 del espesor de un cabello humano) para fotografiarlas. Princeton aplicó algoritmos de visión por computador y aprendizaje profundo para reconstruir la forma completa de cada neurona. Estos procedimientos crearon un gran desafío de administración de datos y versiones, ya que cada error de interpretación podía cambiar todo el resultado. Herramientas personalizadas de control de versiones y de corrección automatizada permitieron avanzar. Además, la presencia de imágenes funcionales y estructurales en el mismo conjunto de datos ofreció un panorama integral, permitiendo correlacionar actividad eléctrica real con conexiones anatómicas. Este enfoque sienta bases sólidas para futuras investigaciones que van a explorar circuitos aún más complejos. En este Flash Diario revisamos el logro de mapear un trozo de cerebro de ratón y observar millones de sinapsis. El avance ayuda a comprender cómo se conectan las células y a diagnosticar padecimientos neurológicos. Te invitamos a seguir nuestro pódcast en Spotify llamado Flash Diario para descubrir más noticias así de fascinantes.BibliografíaThe New York TimesThe TimesThe GuardianNatureConviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/flash-diario-de-el-siglo-21-es-hoy--5835407/support.
David Jilk joins us for round two! After finishing MIT, David founded eCortex, a company that wound up being a solid 20 years ahead of the curve on deep learning, and later worked on cognitive models for IARPA. He has founded or advised numerous other companies, including Harmonix Music Systems, creators of the wildly popular games Guitar Hero and Rock Band. He recently published Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga, a science fiction epic poem that tells the story of the first fully human-level artificial intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Government systems often take a lot of flack for their (sometimes) built-in inability to take risks and make big bets. So, what would it take to encourage the government to take those big, risky moonshots? For Health, that's the role of ARPA-H – to fund new ways of improving health by investing in people with big ideas. We sat down with ARPA-H Director Renee Wegrzyn at Aspen Ideas Health to talk about how it's going and what comes next. We discuss:Why ARPA-H is personal for President Biden.How ARPA-H's special authorities – from flexible hiring to novel contracting – are its secret weapons for speed and scale.The critical role of Program Managers – single decision maker driving the vision and execution of each $50-$200 million initiative.Renee says ARPA-H gives her the ability to direct funds into areas that are sometimes left off the list of “must haves” for innovation:“...one of the only top down things I've done as a director is said, ‘Why aren't we funding more in women's health? We don't have any program managers in the pipeline that want to exclusively focus on this'. But I think we all inherently understand that women are underrepresented in almost every aspect of health. So I asked our [Program Managers].. who wants to raise [a] hand and pick a topic that is really either unique to women, or is disproportionately affecting women that we can do a sprint and invest around. And so I got six Program Managers to come up with topics, everything from Women's Health at home, to brain health, to understanding and quantifying pain – and through the Investor Catalyst Hub we have worked with investors to understand what kind of convincing scale do we need to get to for you to be the second investor. And we competed this across the country.”Relevant LinksAbout ARPA-H ARPA-H Health Equity Factsheet The Minor Consult Podcast EpisodeARPA - H TimelineYoutube Conversation with New Yorker writerWhite House FAQ Sheet on ARPA-HAbout Our GuestDr. Renee Wegrzyn is the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), appointed by President Biden on October 11, 2022. Previously, she was the Vice President of Business Development at Ginkgo Bioworks and Head of Innovation at Concentric by Ginkgo, where she focused on synthetic biology for combating infectious diseases like COVID-19.Wegrzyn has experience with DARPA and IARPA, the models for ARPA-H. At DARPA, she used synthetic biology and gene editing to enhance biosecurity and the bioeconomy, managing programs like Living Foundries, Safe Genes, PREPARE, and DIGET. She received the Superior Public Service Medal for her DARPA work. Her career includes leading biosecurity and gene therapy teams in private industry, developing immunoassays and diagnostics. Wegrzyn has served on various scientific advisory boards, including those for the National Academies and the Air Force Research Labs. She holds a Ph.D. and a bachelor's degree in applied biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed...
In this episode of Innovate and Elevate, Sharon Kedar is joined by Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a government agency designed to drive high-impact health innovations. Appointed by President Biden in 2022, Dr. Wegrzyn shares her deep experience in both synthetic biology and biosecurity, drawing from her work at DARPA, IARPA, and Ginkgo Bioworks.The conversation dives into the unique role of government in fostering breakthrough technologies, emphasizing ARPA-H's mission to transform health outcomes. Dr. Wegrzyn explains how ARPA-H takes on ambitious, high-risk projects with the potential to revolutionize healthcare, much like DARPA's past successes in defense technologies, such as the early development of mRNA technology.Dr. Wegrzyn highlights ARPA-H's approach to maximizing the return on investment for American taxpayers by focusing on scalable, impactful solutions that can transition to the private sector. She walks listeners through transformative projects, including NITRO, GLIDE, ADAPT, and POSEIDON. ARPA-H has a unique Program Management structure, which provides hands-on mentorship and support to ARPA-H grantees. Dr. Wegrzyn identifies how the partnership helps innovators address cost, accessibility, and user experience in health innovations. Sharon and Dr. Wegrzyn also discuss the ARPA-H's Sprint for Women's Health and how the funding opportunity addresses critical unmet challenges in the women's health sector. Episode Outline(01:50) How the US Government Drives Innovation (04:01) The Return on Investment to Americans (09:27) ARPA-H Programs and Funding (12:42) How To Work with ARPA-H (15:28) The Audacity to Imagine Success (18:59) Improving Research and the Standard of Care (21:40) Women's Health Innovation (26:45) Beyond Conversation: Embracing Data-Driven Solutions Connect with SharonConnect with Sharon on LinkedIn: Sharon KedarLearn more about Innovate and Elevate innovateandelevatepodcast.comSubscribe to Innovate and Elevate on YouTubeJoin the newsletter to receive the latest episodes in your inbox: Innovate and Elevate NewsletterConnect with Dr. Renee WegrzynFollow Renee on LinkedInLearn more on the ARPA-H websiteAdditional ResourcesSubscribe to the ARPA-H Vitals newsletterFull list of ARPA-H programsThe hidden questions behind the Heilmeir QuestionsThe White House Initiative on Women's Health ResearchThis podcast is produced by the women at
SpeakerStuart Buck is the Executive Director of the Good Science Project, and a Senior Advisor at the Social Science Research Council. Formerly, he was the Vice President of Research at Arnold Ventures. His efforts to improve research transparency and reproducibility have been featured in Wired, New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, The Economist, and more. He has given advice to DARPA, IARPA (the CIA's research arm), the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team on rigorous research processes, as well as publishing in top journals (such as Science and BMJ) on how to make research more accurate.Session SummaryWorking in the field of meta-science, Stuart cares deeply about who gets funding and how, the engulfment of bureaucracy for researchers, everywhere, how we can fund more innovative science, ensuring results are reproducible and true, and much more. Among many things, he has funded renowned work showing that scientific research is often irreproducible, including the Reproducibility Projects in Psychology and Cancer Biology.Full transcript, list of resources, and art piece: https://www.existentialhope.com/podcastsExistential Hope was created to collect positive and possible scenarios for the future so that we can have more people commit to creating a brighter future, and to begin mapping out the main developments and challenges that need to be navigated to reach it. Existential Hope is a Foresight Institute project.Hosted by Allison Duettmann and Beatrice ErkersFollow Us: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Existential Hope InstagramExplore every word spoken on this podcast through Fathom.fm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Over the years, Choiceology has offered a lot of advice for making better decisions. In this special episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we bring you the story of a video game that is surprisingly effective at reducing decision errors, and you'll hear about a practical checklist for improving choices in many different contexts.Solving fictitious mysteries might sound like fun and games, but the video game MISSING: The Pursuit of Terry Hughes was designed with a serious purpose in mind: to help intelligence analysts avoid decision-making traps. In 2015, James Korris and Carey Morewedge worked together to design a video game for the intelligence agency IARPA, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, and measured the biases exhibited before and after playing the series of 90-minute games. The results were remarkable and extremely durable.James Korris is president and CEO of Creative Technologies Inc. in Los Angeles, and is a pioneer in immersive game-based simulation for military learning. You can see a preview of the game James designed titled MISSING: The Pursuit of Terry Hughes.Next, Katy speaks with Carey Morewedge about the game and about his research on effective decision-debiasing techniques. You can learn more in the paper Carey co-authored with James titled "Debiasing Decisions: Improved Decision Making With a Single Training Intervention."Carey Morewedge is a professor of marketing at Boston University Questrom School of Business who studies psychological biases and how to reduce them. Finally, Katy speaks with Jack Soll to hear his checklist of four simple ways to debias yourself before making decisions, big or small. You can read more in the article Jack and Katy co-authored with John Payne titled "Outsmart Your Own Biases." Jack Soll is the Gregory Mario & Jeremy Mario Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizations at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Choiceology is an original podcast from Charles Schwab. For more on the show, visit schwab.com/Choiceology.If you enjoy the show, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts.Important DisclosuresThe comments, views, and opinions expressed in the presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of Charles Schwab.Data contained herein from third party providers is obtained from what are considered reliable source. However, its accuracy, completeness or reliability cannot be guaranteed and Charles Schwab & Co. expressly disclaims any liability, including incidental or consequential damages, arising from errors or omissions in this publication. All corporate names and market data shown above are for illustrative purposes only and are not a recommendation, offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Supporting documentation for any claims or statistical information is available upon request. Investing involves risk including loss of principal.The book How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (CS&Co.). Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (CS&Co.) has not reviewed the book and makes no representations about its content.Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Podcasts are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.Spotify and the Spotify logo are registered trademarks of Spotify AB.(0524-2GW1)
Captain (ret) Dr. Gurpartap "GP" Sandhoo, Ph.D. is Director, Emerging Technologies and Architectures - Space Sector at Northrop Grumman ( https://www.northropgrumman.com/space ), where he is focused on leveraging new and emerging technologies and manufacturing process to shape the future of civil and national security space. Dr. Sandhoo previously served at the Defense Innovation Unit ( DIU - https://www.diu.mil/ ) at the Pentagon, a United States Department of Defense organization founded to help the U.S. military make faster use of emerging commercial technologies, supporting that organization's space portfolio, focused on operationalizing commercial space technologies for national security space. He also served as Deputy Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity ( IARPA - https://www.iarpa.gov/ ) support the director in the day-to-day management of the organization, and execution of the diverse portfolio of high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of the Intelligence Community. Dr. Sandhoo previously occupied the Distinguished Visiting Professor Robert A. Heinlein Endowed Chair in Astronautics at the U.S. Naval Academy. At the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, he headed the Spacecraft Engineering Division, and was also the acting director of the Naval Center of Space Technology. He provided executive direction and technical leadership in conducting research of space systems with advanced technologies. He was also a flight controller at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and was a research & development engineer at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, as well as in industry. Since 1986, until recently retiring from public service, Dr. Sandhoo served in uniform in the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy and as a Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an Engineering Duty Officer. He holds a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, a Master's degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, Master's from the U.S. Naval War College, a Master's and a Doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics from George Washington University, and is a MIT Seminar XXI fellow. Support the Show.
Dr Eric Haseltine is Chairman of the US Technology Leadership Council and CEO of the tech startup MagneticWave. After 9/11, Eric left his post of Executive Vice President at Disney Imagineering to become Director of Research at NSA then Associate Director of National Intelligence and CTO of the Intelligence Community where he founded IARPA, the Intelligence version of DARPAHe is the author of numerous books on innovation as well as the true spy thriller, The Spy in Moscow StationBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/night-dreams-talk-radio--2788432/support.
Biology plays a large part in our lives and human development. So how can we use AI to shape the world that we live in? Anna Marie Wagner, SVP, Head of AI at Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., joins us to discuss how AI is changing the future of biology and its implications for humanity and our world. Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Ask Anna Marie and Jordan questions about AI and biologyUpcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTimestamps:[00:01:20] Daily AI news[00:04:30] About Anna Marie and Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.[00:09:30] The future of AI in biology[00:12:30] Challenges of AI in biology[00:14:30] Real world examples of AI in biology[00:19:55] GenAI advancements in biology[00:22:05] AI and gene modification[00:26:35] AI regulation in biology[00:28:45] Anna Marie's final takeawayTopics Covered in This Episode:1. Impact of AI on Biology2. Advancement in AI and Biology3. AI Models and Protein Sequences4. Potential Uses of AI and Gene EditingKeywords:AI models, protein sequences, biosecurity, AI and biology, DNA, IARPA, training AI models, retraining AI models, architecture of human language, architecture of biology, structured data, generative AI, large language models, unstructured data, CRISPR, gene modification, microbes, defense against viruses, gene editing, genetic disorders, engineering applications, regulations, responsible use, computer science, education, awareness, reinforcement learning, rules of biology, high-quality training data, protein engineering, catalysis reactions Get more out of ChatGPT by learning our PPP method in this live, interactive and free training! Sign up now: https://youreverydayai.com/ppp-registration/
Dr Eric Haseltine is Chairman of the US Technology Leadership Council and CEO of the tech startup MagneticWave. After 9/11, Eric left his post of Executive Vice President at Disney Imagineering to become Director of Research at NSA then Associate Director of National Intelligence and CTO of the Intelligence Community where he founded IARPA, the Intelligence version of DARPAHe is the author of numerous books on innovation as well as the true spy thriller, The Spy in Moscow Station
"brain hacking," psychotronics, nonlethal weapons, mind control, Jose Delgado, brain implants, Yale University, MK-ULTRA, US Navy, Spain, Gladio, why Delgado's research failed, why Delgado's theories may be applicable now, the God Helmet, Michael Persinger, Monroe Institute, Elon Musk, Neuralink, the BRAIN Initiative, optogenetics, chemogenetics, magnetogenetics, lockdowns, vaccine, pandemic, neuro-tracers, DARPA, IARPAThe Open Sanctum, Wayne's website:https://opensanctum.substack.com/Music by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
THE DEEP STATE wants to know what you're doing all of the time. That's the takeaway from the news this week. USSOCOM, the US Army's Special Forces command, has contracted with a company to develop a system called Argus, named for the giant with a hundred eyes in Greek mythology, to detect “disinformation” on social media. Because the US military can't legally deploy such a thing against the US public, Argus will have a private enterprise version that will be rolled out after the system is developed—with US taxpayer funds. We also discuss an odd windowless high-rise at 33 Thomas Street in New York City, built in the early 1970s for AT&T. A 2016 investigation by The Intercept found that, although it's still owned by AT&T, it's a National Security Agency spy hub code-named TITANPOINTE, used to tap into phone calls, faxes, and internet data. There appears to be no limit to the government's hunger for data on its citizens. IARPA, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, is spending about $20 million to develop clothing that spies on its wearer. The system is called Smart Electrically Powered And Networked Textile Systems—Smart ePANTS. Seriously. Also: Earthquake in Morocco; scientists created “human embryo-like entity” without sperm, egg, or womb; military developing “turducken” nested drones; and we're watching the dawn of World War 3. Here's the link to Aaron Lipkin's petition calling on the government of Israel to protect the site of Joshua's altar.—————— Our Build Barn Better project is making progress! Our 1,200 square foot pole barn has a new epoxy floor, 100-amp electric service, new windows, insulation, lights, and ceiling fans! Next, we'll install an HVAC system, and move our studios and book/DVD warehouse and shipping office out of our home. If you are so led, you can help out by clicking here. Get our free app! It connects you to this podcast, our weekly Bible studies, and our weekly video programs Unraveling Revelation and A View from the Bunker. The app is available for iOS, Android, Roku, and Apple TV. Links to the app stores are at www.pidradio.com/app. Video on demand of our best teachings! Stream presentations and teachings based on our research at our new video on demand site! Check out our new online store! www.GilbertHouse.org/store is a virtual book table with books and DVDs related to our weekly Bible study. Take advantage of our monthly specials!——————Join us in Israel! Our 2024 tour of Israel features special guest Timothy Alberino! We will tour the Holy Land March 31–April 9, 2024, with an optional three-day extension in Jordan. For more information, log on to www.GilbertsInIsrael.com.——————Subscribe to our YouTube channels:Unraveling Revelation: www.YouTube.com/UnravelingRevelationThese weekly studies and Derek's podcast: www.YouTube.com/GilbertHouse
Dr Eric Haseltine is Chairman of the US Technology Leadership Council and CEO of the tech startup MagneticWave. After 9/11, Eric left his post of Executive Vice President at Disney Imagineering to become Director of Research at NSA then Associate Director of National Intelligence and CTO of the Intelligence Community where he founded IARPA, the Intelligence version of DARPAHe is the author of numerous books on innovation as well as the true spy thriller, The Spy in Moscow Stationhttps://www.drhaseltine.com/
Dr Miah Hammond-Errey is joined by Jason Matheny, CEO of RAND Corporation and founder of CSET to delve into the complexities of regulating emerging technologies — from AI to biotechnology, what the United States can learn from Australia, the opportunity a current bottleneck in compute capacity offers democracies, and his work at IARPA — ‘the DARPA of the intelligence world' — using innovative methods to solve the hard problems of policy and national security. They also discuss the role of alliances such as Five Eyes in combatting AI-generated disinformation and why standards bodies need greater support.Jason is the President and CEO of RAND Corporation. He previously led technology and national security policy for the White House in the National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Jason founded the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University, was a Commissioner on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He has also worked at the World Bank, Oxford University, the Applied Physics Laboratory and Princeton University.Technology and Security is hosted by Dr Miah Hammond-Errey, the inaugural director of the Emerging Technology program at the United States Studies Centre, based at the University of Sydney. Miah's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Miah_HEResources mentioned in the recording:Supporting responsible AI: discussion paper (Department of Industry, Science and Resources)The Illusion of China's AI Prowess (Helen Toner, Jenny Xiao, and Jeffrey Ding, Foreign Affairs)Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities for the Department of Defense (Jason Matheny, Senate testimony)Challenges to US National Security and Competitiveness Posed by AI (Jason Matheny, Senate testimony)Dealing with Disinformation: A Critical New Mission Area For AUSMIN (Dr Miah Hammond-Errey, USSC)RAND Truth Decay original report (Michael Rich and Jennifer Cavanaugh)RAND Truth DecayThe future of digital health with federated learning (Andrew Trask et al.) SILMARILS – Chemical residue detection (IARPA)Making great content requires fabulous teams. Thanks to the great talents of the following. Research support and assistance: Tom BarrettProduction: Elliott BrennanPodcast Design: Susan BealeMusic: Dr Paul MacThis podcast was recorded on the lands of the Ngunnawal people, and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging — here and wherever you are listening. We acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Gotham Sharma is a cybersecurity consultant, writer, educator, and stand-up comic. He's on a mission to help folks build successful careers in information security through his latest venture, AccessCyber.co. In his training, Gotham leverages humor to make security awareness and education relatable to audiences of various technical backgrounds. Inspired by satire publications like The Onion, Gotham recently launched an infosec magazine called Brute Farce Attack, one of the many projects on his growing list of side hustles. In this episode of No Password Required, Gotham joins Carlton Fields's Jack Clabby and KnowBe4's Kayley Melton to share how his life changed after a well-intentioned anti-mentor inspired him. Jack and Kayley discuss IARPA's plan to hack hackers' brains as the agency considers reimagining security with cyberpsychology-informed network defenses. You can connect with Gotham on Twitter here: @GothamJSharma You can learn more about AccessCyber here: https://accesscyber.co/ You can learn more about Brute Farce Attack here: https://www.brutefarceattack.com/
A new Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency project is looking to use psychology to thwart would-be hackers. Many cyber attacks these days use basic human psychology to get people to click on a link, for example, as part of a "phishing" exploit. But IARPA thinks it can flip that paradigm on its head and embed the "cognitive biases" of hackers into network defenses. For an overview of the effort, I spoke with Dr. Kimberly Ferguson-Walter, the program manager for IARPA's Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Network Defenses (ReSCIND) program.
A new Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency project is looking to use psychology to thwart would-be hackers. Many cyber attacks these days use basic human psychology to get people to click on a link, for example, as part of a "phishing" exploit. But IARPA thinks it can flip that paradigm on its head and embed the "cognitive biases" of hackers into network defenses. For an overview of the effort, I spoke with Dr. Kimberly Ferguson-Walter, the program manager for IARPA's Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Network Defenses (ReSCIND) program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Dr. Jeffrey B. Bacon, Ph.D., LTC (USA), is Co-Program Manager for B24IC, a Biointelligence and Biosecurity program for the U.S. Intelligence Community, at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity ( IARPA - https://www.iarpa.gov/ ), which seeks to develop new capabilities, matching the wider synthetic biology and biotechnology fields, ensuring the Intelligence Community's (IC's) capability to meet the biointelligence and biosecurity threats of the 21st century. Dr. Bacon has a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology / Environmental Science, from Norwich University; a Masters of Science in Engineering Management, from Missouri University of Science and Technology; a Master of Science (MS) in Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction – Biodefense, from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology; and a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, in International Relations and National Security Studies, from The Fletcher School at Tufts. Previously Dr. Bacon also spent over 25 years at United States Department of the Army as a Nuclear Strategy and Counterproliferation Officer, US Army Corps of Engineers Regiment, as well as serving time as Branch Chief, US Army Nuclear CWMD Agency. Dr. Bacon also served as Department Chair, Counterproliferation & Information and Influence Intelligence, at National Intelligence University; as Interagency Chair/Army Senior Service Advisor, National Intelligence University while at the Defense Intelligence Agency; as Team Lead, Data Analytics and Predictive Modeling, on the DoD Coronavirus-2019 Task Force; and as Executive Officer/Program Manager, Research and Development Directorate, Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Relevant Information Links - https://www.iarpa.gov/who-we-are/about-us https://ni-u.edu/wp/ https://app.brazenconnect.com/events/dbrZJ?utm_medium=website&utm_source=orisecalendar&utm_campaign=vcf012523 Support the show
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join Dr. Jeffrey Gladden and Max Newlon, the President of BrainCo USA. Max has a Master's from Harvard Graduate School of Education and years of clinical trial experience at Beth Israel Deaconess and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He was the lead coordinator for a $1 million IARPA study on cognitive enhancement and has leadership development industry experience. He is also the President of BrainCo, which grew out of the Harvard Innovation Lab. BrainCo develops cognitive training technology products and applies this expertise in machine learning, design, and neuroscience to create innovative cognitive-based applications. FocusCalm is one of the company's verticals that uses neurofeedback to help users train and optimize their brains. In this episode, you get to learn more about optimizing your life by gaining control of your brain using FocusCalm. Max advocates that your brain is always capable of change and is within your control. Are you interested in optimizing your life, learning about brain modulation, brain reprogramming, and improving the quality of your life? Listen to hear more about shifting your mindset to understand you can change your brain, learn to observe and be aware of your mental state, and deepen your mindfulness. Listen to this episode to learn about making a hundred, the new thirty, and living beyond 120! Show notes: Steve starts out by disclosing Dr. Gladden's current location. (0:28) Dr. Gladden tells us that brain modulation and brain programming are important for health, longevity, performance, and improving the quality of life. (1:12) Dr. Gladden reiterates that the fundamental issue with all health and all health optimization is the brain or a function of brain programming and re-programming. (2:07) Dr. Gladden questions Max about why he decided to focus on the brain. (3:35) Max recounts an experience he had with his teacher calling his parents in the first grade. (5:02) Dr. Gladden confirms that what Max is doing now has been a lifelong passion for him. (7:02) Max explains that many team members have a deep artificial intelligence learning background. (9:25) Max reveals that the best way to understand the brain is to allow the data to tell us what is happening. (11:15) Dr. Gladden shares that he agrees with Max that we need to respond in the face of danger. (14:24) Dr. Gladden points out that some people struggle to meditate. (16:30) Max refers to studies showing that the more people practice, the better their scores. (18:08) Max discloses that he likes to know what his brain is like when doing one activity compared to another. (19:55) Max clarifies that they don't have any data yet to show how the headband helps with a concussion but can definitely help with stress. (22:12) Dr. Gladden defines the flow state as where people report being most satisfied with their lives. (24:09) Dr. Gladden communicates that if you can modulate your mind to match the activity, you go into the flow state. (26:18) Dr. Gladden asks Max about the next big thing he is working on. (28:27) Max advocates that you can change your brain and that you are not stuck with what you have. (30:32) Max explains that they have not done any studies on depression. (33:18) Visit our website, www.gladdenlongevitypodcast.com, for more information on this episode and other episodes as well. Follow us on social media! Instagram: @gladdenlongevitypodcast Twitter: @GLPodcast_ Facebook: @GladdenLongevityPodcast For more information on our practice or how to become a client, visit: www.gladdenlongevity.com Call us: 972-310-8916 Or email us: info@gladdenlongevity.com To learn more about Max and the work he does, check out the following: Website: https://brainco.tech | https://focuscalm.com Email: general@brainco.tech | support@focuscalm.com Telephone number: (617) 945-2166 IG: @focus_calm FB: @braincotech | @FocusCalmNeuroWellness Twitter: @BrainCo_Tech | @focuscalm LinkedIn: FocusCalm https://www.linkedin.com/company/75526385/admin/ Discount /Affiliate Link: Longevity10 (10% off of the headband and lifetime subscription) Link: https://focuscalm.com/discount/Longevity10
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Episode 96 of "The Dustin Gold Standard," Dustin delves into transhumanist Frankenstein doctor and Harvard professor George Church. Dustin finds Church's connections to DARPA, IARPA, and the BRAIN Initiative. Church is currently funded by various government departments, is in partnership with China, and has taken money from technocratic transhumanist Peter Thiel, and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Church has created a list of the various genes he wants to manipulate within humans in order to create the superhuman. Church has launched over 50 biotech companies and has propagandized countless students. Dustin begins picking apart the tech companies behind Central Bank Digital Currency, and their connections to Peter Thiel, as he prepares for the next installment of Wide Awake Jim. Donate to Dustin to help him continue to bring you this level of daily content and keep food on his family's table: https://donorbox.org/dustingoldshow Join the discussion and get the ad-free video version of ”The Dustin Gold Standard,” “The Thomas Paine Podcast,” and access to a Facebook-like website and mobile application where you can network and share intelligence with a group of like-minded folks (Join the Hotwire for Mike's highest level of intelligence): Paine.TV/gold Looking to register your vehicle, but your state is like mine and works hard to stop you from registering an older vehicle? Looking to save money on vehicle property taxes? Don't feel like dealing with the DMV? Contact my friends at DirtLegal where I registered my vehicle: https://www.dirtlegal.com?aff=35 Follow Dustin on Twitter: Twitter.com/dustingoldshow and Twitter.com/hackableanimal Get involved with the Telegram discussion: https://t.me/dustingoldshow Join in on live audio conversations: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow Ask a question and get a 60-second answer from me: https://wisdom.app/dustingoldshow/ask Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There's rarely an expected path in science. This week's episode, produced in partnership with The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, features two stories from scientists of their cutting-edge research institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who took unexpected journeys to get where they are today. Part 1: After a troubling personal experience with the health care system, Heng Ji decides to try to fix it. Part 2: When Brendan Harley is diagnosed with leukaemia in high school, it changes everything. Heng Ji is a professor at Computer Science Department, and an affiliated faculty member at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an Amazon Scholar. She received her B.A. and M. A. in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Her research interests focus on Natural Language Processing, especially on Multimedia Multilingual Information Extraction, Knowledge Base Population and Knowledge-driven Generation. She was selected as "Young Scientist" and a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Computing by the World Economic Forum in 2016 and 2017. She was named as part of Women Leaders of Conversational AI (Class of 2023) by Project Voice. The awards she received include "AI's 10 to Watch" Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, NSF CAREER award in 2009, PACLIC2012 Best paper runner-up, "Best of ICDM2013" paper award, "Best of SDM2013" paper award, ACL2018 Best Demo paper nomination, ACL2020 Best Demo Paper Award, NAACL2021 Best Demo Paper Award, Google Research Award in 2009 and 2014, IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012 and 2014 and Bosch Research Award in 2014-2018. She was invited by the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force and AFRL to join Air Force Data Analytics Expert Panel to inform the Air Force Strategy 2030. She is the lead of many multi-institution projects and tasks, including the U.S. ARL projects on information fusion and knowledge networks construction, DARPA DEFT Tinker Bell team and DARPA KAIROS RESIN team. She has coordinated the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She was the associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, and served as the Program Committee Co-Chair of many conferences including NAACL-HLT2018 and AACL-IJCNLP2022. She is elected as the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) secretary 2020-2023. Her research has been widely supported by the U.S. government agencies (DARPA, ARL, IARPA, NSF, AFRL, DHS) and industry (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Bosch, IBM, Disney). Heng Ji is supported by NSF AI Institute on Molecule Synthesis, and collaborating with Prof. Marty Burke at Chemistry Department at UIUC and Prof. Kyunghyun Cho at New York University and Genetech on using AI for drug discovery. Dr. Brendan Harley is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research group develops biomaterial that can be implanted in the body to regenerate musculoskeletal tissues or that can be used outside the body as tissue models to study biological events linked to endometrium, brain cancer, and stem cell behavior. He's a distance runner who dreams of (eventually) running ultramarathons. Follow him @Prof_Harley and www.harleylab.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dr. David A. Markowitz, Ph.D. ( https://www.markowitz.bio/ ) is a Program Manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity ( IARPA - https://www.iarpa.gov/ ) which is an organization that invests in high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of the agencies and disciplines in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). IARPA's mission is to push the boundaries of science to develop solutions that empower the U.S. IC to do its work better and more efficiently for national security. IARPA does not have an operational mission and does not deploy technologies directly to the field, but instead, they facilitate the transition of research results to IC customers for operational application. Currently, Dr. Markowitz leads three research programs at the intersection between biology, engineering, and computing. These programs are: FELIX, which is revolutionizing the field of bio-surveillance with new experimental and computational tools for detecting genetic engineering in complex biological samples; MIST, which is developing compact and inexpensive DNA data storage devices to address rapidly growing enterprise storage needs; and MICrONS, which is guiding the development of next-generation machine learning algorithms by reverse-engineering the computations performed by mammalian neocortex. Previously, as a researcher in neuroscience, Dr. Markowitz published first-author papers on neural computation, the neural circuit basis of cognition in primates, and neural decoding strategies for brain-machine interfaces. Dr. Markowitz received his Ph.D. in molecular biology and neuroscience from Princeton University and his Bachelor's degree in management science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow and a Swartz Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Neuroscience. Dr. Markowitz is a recipient of the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Authentication is a critical part to ensure the identity of a legitimate user. During authentication, an individual's credential is validated with a specific computational technique to determine the association of the user with his/her claimed identity. In this talk, I will discuss an adaptive multi-factor authentication (A-MFA) framework which uses adaptive selection of multiple modalities at different operating environment so to make authentication strategy unpredictable to hackers. This methodology incorporates a novel approach of calculating trustworthy values of different authentication factors while the computing device being used under different environmental settings. Accordingly, a subset of authentication factors is determined (at triggering events) on the fly thereby leaving no exploitable a priori pattern or clue for adversaries. Such a methodology of adaptive authentication selection can provide legitimacy to user transactions with an added layer of access protection that is not rely on a fixed set of authentication modalities. Robustness of the system is assured by designing the framework in such a way that if any modality data get compromised, the system can still perform flawlessly using other non-compromised modalities. Scalability can also be achieved by adding new and/or improved modalities with existing set of modalities and integrating the operating/configuration parameters for the added modality.I will highlight what type of evaluation be required for such identity management software to detect possible deep fakes and other forms of faking biometrics. Other attacks on current means of identity validation may become possible. What would be what good figures of merit to be used as response variables? What are good factors over which we would need to test for next-generation identity eco-systems.References:· Advances in User Authentication. Dipankar Dasgupta,Arunava Roy, Abhijit Nag. Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Inc., August 2017.· US Patent #9,912,657: Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication, Dasgupta, et al., March6, 2018. About the speaker: Dipankar Dasgupta is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Memphis and has been in different faculty positions since 1997. He is at the forefront in applying bio-inspired approaches to cyber defense, served as a program co-chair at the National Cyber Leap Year Summit organized at the request of the White House Office of Science and Technology Directorate (2009). Some of his groundbreaking works, like digital immunity, negative authentication, and cloud insurance model, put his name in Computer World Magazine and other News media.Dr. Dasgupta received external funding from different federal agencies including NSF, DARPA, IARPA, NSA, NAVY, ONR DoD and DHS/FEMA. Dr. Dasgupta has more than 300 publications with about 20,000 citations and having h-index of 62 as per Google scholar. Prof. Dasgupta received the 2014ACM SIGEVO Impact Award, became Fellow of IEEE in 2015, ACM Distinguished Speaker from 2015-2020, and currently IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. In addition to Prof. Dasgupta's research and creative activities, he also spearheads the University of Memphis's education, training and outreach activities on Information Assurance (IA). He is the founding Director of the Center for Information Assurance (CfIA) which is a National Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE-IAE) and in Research(CAE-R). Because of the center's wide range of activities, the University of Memphis is in the forefront of information security research, education, and outreach in the state as well as in the region.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Biden should be applauded for appointing Renee Wegrzyn for ARPA-H, published by ChristianKl on September 18, 2022 on LessWrong. When Biden first announced ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) I was skeptical. At the time the proposal was to make ARPA-H a normal agency within the NIH. When critics argued that the NIH bureaucracy would likely reduce the amount of innovation that ARPA-H could produce the administration listened and US health secretary Xavier Becerra decided to make ARPA-H an independent entity within the NIH. Appointing Renee Wegrzyn as the head of ARPA-H is an excellent choice. Having previously worked at DARPA and IARPA and not in the NIH makes her a good person to copy the structure of how DARPA and IARPA get things done. Being 45, she is twenty years younger than the average director of an institute at the NIH who is 65. When science sometimes evolves from gravestone to gravestone, it's great to see a director for the ARPA-H who's in her forties. Especially, in contrast to the newly appointed NIH director Lawrence A. Tabak who is a 71-year-old (a fact that his NIH biography omits) having a 45-year-old lead ARPA-H is a welcome surprise. While at DARPA, Wegrzyn worked on biosecurity and even gave a talk about the importance of biosecurity to the Long Now Foundation. It's valuable to have people who care about biosecurity at the top of organizations that direct a lot of research dollars. A lot of the research focuses either on directly curing diseases or on basic research but the research that focuses on producing tools for better research is historically underfunded. Wegrzyn experience as vice president of business development at Gingko Bioworks which is a unicorn biotech company that historically doesn't focus on curing diseases directly but providing tools to help other companies, gives me hope that ARPA-H will be able to fund research into producing better tools to deal with biological problems. During COVID-19 they worked on producing COVID tests which was likely a lesson in the flaws of government bureaucracy holding back innovation. In an interview she described her own research as being guided by the question of ‘what do we know about protein folding that can help us develop a totally new type of diagnostic?' I'm happy to see that and think it will lead to better research paths than having someone who focuses more on creating FDA approved drugs in charge of allocating research funding. She coedited Alzheimer's Disease Targets for New Clinical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies in 2012. It seems to me that one of the more important issues in Alzheimers research funding is the overinvestment in the amyloid cascade hypothesis. The book gets that issue right when it argues “Until recently, the amyloid cascade hypothesis had been the predominant working hypothesis for AD pathogenesis. However, this hypothesis has been supplanted by what some have called the oligomer cascade hypothesis, which posits that Aβ oligomers, rather than fibrils, are the proximate neurotoxic agents in AD” I think she showed excellent judgment by writing a book that argued for directing our Alzheimer research dollar to other paths than the amyloid cascade hypothesis (that part isn't written by her directly). In the essay that she wrote herself, she argues “Drug discovery and development for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease would greatly benefit from biomarkers that are predictive of clinical outcomes to inform the selection of effective drug candidates, monitor dose safety and efficacy on treated cohorts, and identify or confirm the mechanisms of drug action in hopes of developing treatments that go beyond symptomatic relief and are disease modifying. The ability to monitor disease progression longitudinally during patient treatment will also be key to...
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Biden should be applauded for appointing Renee Wegrzyn for ARPA-H, published by ChristianKl on September 18, 2022 on LessWrong. When Biden first announced ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) I was skeptical. At the time the proposal was to make ARPA-H a normal agency within the NIH. When critics argued that the NIH bureaucracy would likely reduce the amount of innovation that ARPA-H could produce the administration listened and US health secretary Xavier Becerra decided to make ARPA-H an independent entity within the NIH. Appointing Renee Wegrzyn as the head of ARPA-H is an excellent choice. Having previously worked at DARPA and IARPA and not in the NIH makes her a good person to copy the structure of how DARPA and IARPA get things done. Being 45, she is twenty years younger than the average director of an institute at the NIH who is 65. When science sometimes evolves from gravestone to gravestone, it's great to see a director for the ARPA-H who's in her forties. Especially, in contrast to the newly appointed NIH director Lawrence A. Tabak who is a 71-year-old (a fact that his NIH biography omits) having a 45-year-old lead ARPA-H is a welcome surprise. While at DARPA, Wegrzyn worked on biosecurity and even gave a talk about the importance of biosecurity to the Long Now Foundation. It's valuable to have people who care about biosecurity at the top of organizations that direct a lot of research dollars. A lot of the research focuses either on directly curing diseases or on basic research but the research that focuses on producing tools for better research is historically underfunded. Wegrzyn experience as vice president of business development at Gingko Bioworks which is a unicorn biotech company that historically doesn't focus on curing diseases directly but providing tools to help other companies, gives me hope that ARPA-H will be able to fund research into producing better tools to deal with biological problems. During COVID-19 they worked on producing COVID tests which was likely a lesson in the flaws of government bureaucracy holding back innovation. In an interview she described her own research as being guided by the question of ‘what do we know about protein folding that can help us develop a totally new type of diagnostic?' I'm happy to see that and think it will lead to better research paths than having someone who focuses more on creating FDA approved drugs in charge of allocating research funding. She coedited Alzheimer's Disease Targets for New Clinical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies in 2012. It seems to me that one of the more important issues in Alzheimers research funding is the overinvestment in the amyloid cascade hypothesis. The book gets that issue right when it argues “Until recently, the amyloid cascade hypothesis had been the predominant working hypothesis for AD pathogenesis. However, this hypothesis has been supplanted by what some have called the oligomer cascade hypothesis, which posits that Aβ oligomers, rather than fibrils, are the proximate neurotoxic agents in AD” I think she showed excellent judgment by writing a book that argued for directing our Alzheimer research dollar to other paths than the amyloid cascade hypothesis (that part isn't written by her directly). In the essay that she wrote herself, she argues “Drug discovery and development for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease would greatly benefit from biomarkers that are predictive of clinical outcomes to inform the selection of effective drug candidates, monitor dose safety and efficacy on treated cohorts, and identify or confirm the mechanisms of drug action in hopes of developing treatments that go beyond symptomatic relief and are disease modifying. The ability to monitor disease progression longitudinally during patient treatment will also be key to...
This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Cozy Earth, and InsideTracker.All living things are programmed with a certain lifespan, which can be dramatically different from species to species. Humans now, in general, live twice as long as our ancestors, thanks to environmental changes and advances in medicine. But most of us spend the last years of our lives without the quality of life we really want. We've come to identify a slew of symptoms and chronic diseases as a natural part of aging, but do they really have to be?Today I'm excited to talk to Dr. George Church all about the latest science on reprogramming our genes to extend our healthspan and lifespan. Dr. George Church is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, a founding member of the Wyss Institute, and director of PersonalGenomes.org, the world's only open-access information on human genomic, environmental, and trait data. Dr. Church is known for pioneering the fields of personal genomics and synthetic biology. He developed the first methods for the first genome sequence and his team invented CRISPR for human stem cell genome editing and other synthetic biology technologies and applications—including new ways to create organs for transplantation, gene therapies for aging reversal, and gene drives to eliminate Lyme disease and malaria. Dr. Church is the director of IARPA & NIH BRAIN Projects and the National Institutes of Health Center for Excellence in Genomic Science. He is the author of Regenesis.This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Cozy Earth, and InsideTracker.Rupa Health is a place where Functional Medicine practitioners can access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code MARK40.InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they're offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):The top things that prevent disease and enhance longevity (7:06 / 4:13) Defining aging as a disease and treating it as such (8:24 / 5:40) Reprogramming and repairing cells to a younger state (12:24 / 9:35) The future, and challenges, of delivering Yamanaka factors for cell reprogramming (15:05 / 11:50) Gene editing vs gene therapy (28:02 / 22:36) Using gene therapy to reverse disease and lengthen life span (34:44 / 30:55) Animal-to-human organ transplants (37:34 / 33:04) Can we live youthfully to 100 years old and beyond? (44:31 / 40:34) How much and what types of protein do we need for healthy aging? (50:30 / 45:50) Using gene editing to bring back mammoths to restore damaged ecosystems (1:00:53 / 56:50) Get a copy of George Church and Ed Regis' book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, here. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everybody's heard the term “space junk.” You're probably aware there's a bunch of it and that it's a risk to satellites. The Space Force tracks tens of thousands of pieces of debris every day, but that's only the big stuff. There are an estimated 100 million pieces of smaller bits – ten centimeters or less – that we can't see from Earth with current technology. But just because they're small doesn't mean they're not dangerous, Alexis Truitt, program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, told Federal News Network Deputy Director Jared Serbu.
With a Master's degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education, years of clinical trial experience at Beth Israel Deaconess and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a lead coordinator role for a $1 million IARPA study on cognitive enhancement, it's safe to say that Max Newlon knows a few things about the mind. The president of BrainCO USA is here today to discuss their flagship brand, FocusCalm, and how you can use this powerful neuroscience based tool (affordably) to unlock your brain's potential. Listen as he breaks down: Can you really train your brain to become calmer and more focused? [8:33] The key to mastering meditation. [14:50] How you can use neurofeedback to change your brain activity. [18:32] When is the most effective time to meditate? [22:28] How to delay the effects of cognitive decline. [29:07] Using music to activate your genius. [34:47] One of the most powerful tools you can use to change how you think, feel, and perform. [37:15] Sponsors: Optimal Carnivore: Brain Nourish is a revolutionary combination of grass-fed beef brain and lion's mane mushrooms which form the ultimate whole food nootropic to help you build a better brain. Go to amazon.com/optimalcarnivore and use coupon code RENEGADE10 to get your brain firing on all cylinders. BiOptimizers: Get a bottle of their best-selling enzyme supplement included in a bundle worth $81... FOR FREE. An offer too good to pass up. Go to masszymes.com/renegadefree to grab yours while supplies last. Athletic Greens: Detoxify your body, boost your energy, and strengthen your immune system with just one scoop. Go to athleticgreens.com/jay to find out why once people start taking it, they never stop.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Forecasting Newsletter: Looking back at 2021., published by NunoSempere on January 27, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Table of contents The American Empire Has Alzheimer's. Prediction Markets: VC money, searching for DraftKings, predatory pricing, and the race to be last. For skilled forecasters, crypto prediction markets are much more profitable than forecasting platforms. Best forecasting pieces from 2021 You can sign up for or view this newsletter on substack, where there are already a few thoughtful comments. To some extent, this edition of the newsletter is a bit more centered on prediction markets, and more targeted to prediction market developers. But I still think it'll be interesting/valuable to EA readers. The American Empire has Alzheimer's It is 1964. Sherman Kent is a senior intelligence analyst. While doing some rudimentary experiments, he realizes that analysts themselves disagree about the degree of confidence that words convey. He suggests that analysts clearly state how certain they are of their conclusions, by using words that correspond to probabilities. This will allow keeping track of how analysts do, while being simple enough for less detail-focused politicians to understand. His proposal encounters deep resistance, and doesn't get implemented. It is the 30th of April of 1975. With the fall of Saigon, the US finally pulls out of a bloody war with Vietnam. There are embarrassing images of people flying out of the US embassy at the last moment. Biden is a newly-minted senator from Delaware. It is 2001. The US intelligence agencies are very embarrassed by not having been able to predict the September 11 attacks. The position of the Director of National Intelligence, and an associated Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is established to coordinate all intelligence agencies to do better in the future. At the same time, Robin Hanson pushes for a "Policy Analysis Market", which would have covered topics of geopolitical interest. This proposal becomes too controversial, and gets dropped. It is 2008. A bunch of Nobel Prize winners and other luminaries publish a letter urging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to make prediction markets more legal. It is 2010. IARPA, an intelligence agency modeled after DARPA, which incubates high-risk, high payoff projects, creates a tournament to find out which forecasting setups do best. Philip Tetlock had done some experiments which found that pre-selecting participants does pretty well. He repeatedly wins the IARPA tournament, and creates Good Judgment Inc to provide the services of his preselected high-performance forecasters. The US doesn't buy their services, and Good Judgment Inc survives by selling very expensive training sessions to clients which have too much money. It is 2013. The CFTC shuts down Intrade, one of the only prediction market platforms in the US. It is 2017 and onwards. As Ethereum and crypto more generally become more mainstream, some prediction markets on top of crypto-blockchains start to pop up, such as Augur, Omen, and later, Polymarket. As cryptocurrencies become more and more popular, the fees on the original Ethereum blockchain increase so much that placing bets on these prediction markets becomes too expensive. Polymarket survives by moving to a "layer two" blockchain, a less paranoidly secure blockchain that mimics the Ethereum blockchain, and which allows users to continue betting. It is the summer of 2021. Biden makes incredibly overconfident assertions about the Afghani government holding on against the Taliban. It doesn't. There are images of the evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan which look very similar to the evacuation from Saigon, Vietnam. This is all very embarrassing to the Biden administration, and his approval rating drops drastically. “The...
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Long-Term Future Fund: July 2021 grant recommendations, published by abergal on January 18, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Introduction The Long-Term Future Fund made the following grants through July 2021: Total grants: $1,427,019 Number of grantees: 18 Payout date: July 2021 Report authors: Asya Bergal (Chair), Oliver Habryka, Adam Gleave, Evan Hubinger, Luisa Rodriguez This payout report is substantially delayed, but we're hoping to get our next payout report covering grants through November out very soon. Updates since our last payout report: We took on Luisa Rodriguez as a guest manager in June and July. We switched from a round-based system to rolling applications. We received $675,000 from Jaan Tallinn through the Survival and Flourishing Fund. Public payout reports for EA Funds grantees are now optional. Consider applying for funding from the Long-Term Future Fund here. Grant reports Note: Many of the grant reports below are very detailed. Public reports are optional for our grantees, and we run all of our payout reports by grantees before publishing them. We think carefully about what information to include to maximize transparency while respecting grantees' preferences. We encourage anyone who thinks they could use funding to positively influence the long-term trajectory of humanity to apply for a grant. Grant reports by Asya Bergal Any views expressed below are my personal views and not the views of my employer, Open Philanthropy. In particular, receiving funding from the Long-Term Future Fund should not be read as an indication that an organization or individual has an elevated likelihood of receiving funding from Open Philanthropy. Correspondingly, not receiving funding from the Long-Term Future Fund (or any risks and reservations noted in the public payout report) should not be read as an indication that an organization or individual has a diminished likelihood of receiving funding from Open Philanthropy. Ezra Karger, Pavel Atanasov, Philip Tetlock ($572,000) Existential risk forecasting tournaments. This grant is to Ezra Karger, Pavel Atanasov, and Philip Tetlock to run an existential risk forecasting tournament. Philip Tetlock is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania; he is known in part for his work on The Good Judgment Project, a multi-year study of the feasibility of improving the accuracy of probability judgments, and for his book Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, which details findings from that study. Pavel Atanasov is a decision psychologist currently working as a Co-PI on two NSF projects focused on predicting the outcomes of clinical trials. He previously worked as a post-doctoral scholar with Philip Tetlock and Barbara Mellers at the Good Judgement Project, and as a consultant for the SAGE research team that won the last season of IARPA's Hybrid Forecasting Competition. Ezra Karger is an applied microeconomist working in the research group of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; he is a superforecaster who has participated in several IARPA-sponsored forecasting tournaments and has worked with Philip Tetlock on some of the methods proposed in the tournament below. Paraphrasing from the proposal, the original plan for the tournament was as follows: Have a panel of subject-matter experts (SMEs) choose 10 long-run questions about existential risks and 20 short-run, resolvable, early warning indicator questions as inputs for the long-run questions. Ask the SMEs to submit forecasts and rationales for each question. Divide the superforecasters into two groups. Ask each person to forecast the same questions as the SMEs and explain those forecasts. For short-run questions, evaluate forecasts using a proper scoring rule, like Brier or logarithmic scores. For long-run questions, use reciprocal scoring to incentivize ac...
How should we understand the Omicron relative to Delta? How does Omicron change the nature of the pandemic and what steps should we be taking in response? These questions require navigating and quantifying uncertainty, while also making forecasts about the future. We could think of no one better than Juan Cambeiro for answers. Juan Cambeiro is a Global Guessing alum, Good Judgment superforecaster, and Metaculus analyst, who placed first in IARPA's FOCUS Tournament on COVID-19 forecasting and was the former first-place COVID forecaster on Good Judgment Open. Juan recently wrote a fantastic article on Metaculus about the Omicron variant–providing a concise analysis of the variant from an epidemiological and public health perspective, while also offering five concrete forecasts about it. In this podcast, we'll talk to Juan about how he analyzed and understood the variant, chose and forecasted these five questions, and key signals he's identified and looking out for in the future. We'll also chat about how policymakers and others should respond to the variant and understand the information from these forecasts. At the end, we'll discuss additional forecasting questions we should be asking to better understand the variant's impact on the pandemic. Learn more: https://globalguessing.com/forecasting-omicron-juan-cambeiro/ Note: This podcast was recorded on December 6, 2021.
Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Regina Joseph. She was a pioneer of digital publication with the first-ever digital magazine, Blender, at a time when no one believed anyone would ever read online. She also created prototypes for the early forms of digital ads. She then went on to start one of the first-ever digital marketing agencies Engine.RDA. Her entire career she's been one step ahead of everyone else and forecasted where the market will go to abnormal accuracy. IARPA has declared her one of the world's only Superforecasters after an intense selection process. She continues to innovate today and also coaches others on how to make better strategic forecasts through her companies Pytho and Sibylink. We hope enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.Find out more about Regina at http://www.superrj.com
Lisa Porter joins me with Eric Lofgren from AcquisitionTalk as cohost to reflect on how R&D works and doesn't work `in the Pentagon.Lisa served as was deputy director of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the DoD, founding director of IARPA, and executive vice president of In-Q-Tel. We touch on:How the error correction of free markets is absent in DoDA round of overrated/underrated on critical S&T areasHow successful government organizations empower their staffWhy the US lost its dominance in space launchPlease consider supporting ChinaTalk on Patreon here! https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/1959352Outtro Music: 甜甜圈
Lisa Porter joins me with Eric Lofgren from AcquisitionTalk as cohost to reflect on how R&D works and doesn't work `in the Pentagon.Lisa served as was deputy director of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the DoD, founding director of IARPA, and executive vice president of In-Q-Tel. We touch on:How the error correction of free markets is absent in DoDA round of overrated/underrated on critical S&T areasHow successful government organizations empower their staffWhy the US lost its dominance in space launchPlease consider supporting ChinaTalk on Patreon here! https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/1959352Outtro Music: 甜甜圈
Lisa Porter joins me with Eric Lofgren from AcquisitionTalk as cohost to reflect on how R&D works and doesn't work `in the Pentagon. Lisa served as was deputy director of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the DoD, founding director of IARPA, and executive vice president of In-Q-Tel. We touch on:How the error correction of free markets is absent in DoDA round of overrated/underrated on critical S&T areasHow successful government organizations empower their staffWhy the US lost its dominance in space launchPlease consider supporting ChinaTalk on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ChinaTalkOuttro Music: 甜甜圈
Lisa Porter joins me with Eric Lofgren from AcquisitionTalk as cohost to reflect on how R&D works and doesn't work `in the Pentagon. Lisa served as was deputy director of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the DoD, founding director of IARPA, and executive vice president of In-Q-Tel. We touch on:How the error correction of free markets is absent in DoDA round of overrated/underrated on critical S&T areasHow successful government organizations empower their staffWhy the US lost its dominance in space launchPlease consider supporting ChinaTalk on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ChinaTalkOuttro Music: 甜甜圈
Lisa Porter joined Jordan Schneider and I for a discussion about Science & Technology (S&T) in the national security arena. She is co-president of LOGIQ, a consulting company, and before that was deputy director of USD(R&E), founding director of IARPA, executive vice president of In-Q-Tel, and senior vice president of Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, among various other positions. We touch on: - How the error correction of free markets is absent in DoD - A round of overrated/underrated on critical S&T areas - The split of AT&L into USD(R&E) and USD(A&S) - How successful government organizations empower their staff - Why the US lost it's dominance in space launch During the episode, Porter discusses how many people in national security misunderstand the phrase "space as a warfighting domain." The popular imagination brings up ideas of spacecraft moving dynamically such as in Star War or Battlestar Galactica, but that ignores physical realities. It takes a lot of time and propellant for satellites to move from one orbit to another, or to avoid kinetic threats, as demanded by the Law of the Conservation of Energy. The near-term focus for warfighting in space is about smart investments in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), such as space situational awareness, missile tracking, resilient communications, and proliferation of spacecraft. Porter cites the Space Development Agency as one example where good headway is being made in these areas, particularly proliferation where they are trying to prove whether spacecraft production can be increased from once every few years to tens or ultimately hundreds per year. One major issue that Porter doesn't see enough emphasis from is continuous upgrading and replenishment of spacecraft. There is not yet enough cost-effective capacity to perform the task. While the commercial industry is investing heavily in launch, DoD has not yet provided a clear requirement or funding for the replenishment mission over the next five-to-ten years to signal its importance to industry. This podcast was produced by Eric Lofgren. You can follow us on Twitter @AcqTalk and find more information at AcquisitionTalk.com.
Read the full transcript here. How should math be taught in primary and secondary schools? How much is science denialism caused by statistics illiteracy or lack of statistical intuitions? What do p-values actually mean? Under what conditions should null results be published? What are some of the less well-known factors that may be contributing to the social science reproducibility crisis?Stuart Buck was Vice President of Arnold Ventures (a $2 billion philanthropy) for nine years and led its nationally-renowned work on improving research quality and reproducibility. He has advised DARPA, IARPA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the GAO on rigorous research, and he was recently asked by Nature to publish a commentary on reproducibility. You can find more about him at stuartbuck.com, follow him on Twitter at @stuartbuck1, or email him at stuartbuck@gmail.com. [Read more]
Read the full transcriptHow should math be taught in primary and secondary schools? How much is science denialism caused by statistics illiteracy or lack of statistical intuitions? What do p-values actually mean? Under what conditions should null results be published? What are some of the less well-known factors that may be contributing to the social science reproducibility crisis?Stuart Buck was Vice President of Arnold Ventures (a $2 billion philanthropy) for nine years and led its nationally-renowned work on improving research quality and reproducibility. He has advised DARPA, IARPA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the GAO on rigorous research, and he was recently asked by Nature to publish a commentary on reproducibility. You can find more about him at stuartbuck.com, follow him on Twitter at @stuartbuck1, or email him at stuartbuck@gmail.com.
How should math be taught in primary and secondary schools? How much is science denialism caused by statistics illiteracy or lack of statistical intuitions? What do p-values actually mean? Under what conditions should null results be published? What are some of the less well-known factors that may be contributing to the social science reproducibility crisis?Stuart Buck was Vice President of Arnold Ventures (a $2 billion philanthropy) for nine years and led its nationally-renowned work on improving research quality and reproducibility. He has advised DARPA, IARPA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the GAO on rigorous research, and he was recently asked by Nature to publish a commentary on reproducibility. You can find more about him at stuartbuck.com, follow him on Twitter at @stuartbuck1, or email him at stuartbuck@gmail.com.
How should math be taught in primary and secondary schools? How much is science denialism caused by statistics illiteracy or lack of statistical intuitions? What do p-values actually mean? Under what conditions should null results be published? What are some of the less well-known factors that may be contributing to the social science reproducibility crisis? Stuart Buck was Vice President of Arnold Ventures (a $2 billion philanthropy) for nine years and led its nationally-renowned work on improving research quality and reproducibility. He has advised DARPA, IARPA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the GAO on rigorous research, and he was recently asked by Nature to publish a commentary on reproducibility. You can find more about him at stuartbuck.com, follow him on Twitter at @stuartbuck1, or email him at stuartbuck@gmail.com.
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Lisa J. Porter has successfully lead some of the world's largest and most critical technology efforts. Her career started with a focus on academic rigor in pursuit of some of the toughest degrees, a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford. She would later lecture at MIT and then became a researcher for DARPA related projects, eventually becoming a DARPA program manager. Dr. Porter would later lead NASA's Aeronautics Portfolio, would become the first Director of the Intelligence Community's IARPA, became President at Teledyne Scientific and an EVP at In-Q-Tel, and then was named to be the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, an office which is essentially the CTO for the entire Department of Defense. She now co-leads a consultancy she formed with Michael Griffin (LogiQ). In this OODAcast we explore Lisa's approach to leadership in the technology domain. Some themes from the discussion: Her comments throughout point to an ability to focus and decide what she would pursue with a determination to accomplish her goals. For example, early on she had a determination to dig into topics associated with solutions around future energy needs and pursued her undergraduate in nuclear engineering. She later acted on a determination to support national security. Like many others she faced a changing moment when the attacks of 9/11 happened. We review how Tony Tether looked her in the eye and convinced her to make the right choice and knew it was time to change. Through her career she was continually placed in situations where she needed to adapt and overcome and in every case rose to the occasion. She recounted several situations in her early career where she learned from role models, including previous generations of great technology leaders like George Heilmeier (famous for Heilmeier's Rules, which are pasted below), and Tony Tether. We discussed how some technologists are fantastic individual contributors but are not so good at leadership, and learn lessons on how we can all get better in our individual leadership abilities. We saw example after example of ways leaders are able to seek out others to learn from including learning how to do things differently. Technology leaders Lisa looked up to frequently had to take courageous stances because they knew they needed to and this theme of courage is one that applies to leaders across multiple domains of course, but in this case we dive in to examples Heilmeier and others gave Lisa. How to push for quality and setting standards and being willing to understand that some people might not like what you are doing and may not like you at all. This means it is never going to be easy to take on the role of leader. Strategies for avoiding mediocrity and pursuing excellence through application of leadership principles. Lessons in creating new organizations in government and the knife fights that come with that (and need for courage, clarity and transparency and drive to bring new capabilities into existence). The virtuous role of In-Q-Tel and the phenomenal job being done by Chris Darby and his team ( There is a secret to success discussed here that will almost certainly apply to any other organization that wants to perform at this level). Advice for CEOs on how to bring capabilities to the attention of government. How can leaders of large organizations generate positive change (using the example of DoD's need to pursue new strategy and actions around 5G). The one true job of a leader. Her view on securing systems "I have never seen a secure system, nor have you or anyone else." She underscored how the approach now known as zero trust is one she strongly endorses because it flows from the approaches used by the savvy for years, including the approach of the intelligence community operators who had to learn to operate in domains of no trust (see, for example, the Moscow Rules of Cybersecurity). Her view, yes raise defenses, but know that trust is a vulnerability and employe the zero trust philosophy. What is she reading? Marcus Aurelius and his meditations, which she most strongly recommends for its context and its inspiration. And Sapiens by Harari. Heilmeier's Rules: Lisa discussed the courage she saw in leaders like George Heilmeier, including the courage to stand up to large interests that will try to push there parochial interests through decision-makers, at times trying to do so by throwing their weight around or bully or seek to claim some ultimate wisdom. One of the way Heilmeier dealt with that was to force all who came to DARPA with a new idea or request to answer a set of very simple to understand questions which are still in use today. These simple questions, now called Heilmeier's catechism or Heilmeier's rules, were not always simple to answer, especially if an idea was not firmly rooted. They are: What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon. How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice? What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? Who cares? If you are successful, what difference will it make? What are the risks? How much will it cost? How long will it take? What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success?
In this inaugural episode of Emerging Tech Horizons, ETI's Dr. Mark Lewis is joined by Jason Matheny to discuss artificial intelligence and the future of defense modernization. Tune in to hear Mark and Jason discuss the recent National Security Commission on AI Report, the race against our peer competitors, attracting and retaining top AI talent, and more. Jason Matheny Bio: Jason Matheny is the the Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology and National Security, Deputy Director for National Security in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Coordinator for Technology and National Security at the National Security Council. Jason Matheny was the Founding Director of Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Previously he was Assistant Director of National Intelligence, and Director of IARPA, responsible for the development of breakthrough technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. Before IARPA, he worked at Oxford University, the World Bank, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Center for Biosecurity, and Princeton University, and was the co-founder of two biotechnology companies. Jason is a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the National Academies' Intelligence Community Studies Board; is a recipient of the Intelligence Community's Award for Individual Achievement in Science and Technology, the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; and was named one of Foreign Policy's “Top 50 Global Thinkers.” He has served on various White House committees related to artificial intelligence, biosecurity, high-performance computing, and quantum information science. He co-led the National AI R&D Strategic Plan released by the White House in 2016 and was a member of the White House Select Committee on AI, created in 2018. He holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from Duke University and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Special Guest this week is Brother Tommy from Atlanta. Tommy is making a small fortune Shorting the Market and he will give us some Investment pointers. We will also talk about the biggest Financial News in 2021 thus far, “Game Stop Gate”. What is IARPA? Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Activity) has a sibling. IARPA is not new, was created by the Defense Dept. in 2006 for the purpose of “Anticipatory Intelligence”. Gangster Capitalism: I will discuss a Racket and Crime against both Humanity & Spirituality that we are all victims of and that none of us may pay attention too or even know exist. The Kosher Mafia. ROUND TABLE. PRESS ONE AND ADD TO THE CONVERSATION (323)642-1586
The Defense Department and intelligence community take in mass quantities of geographic data. Now the IC wants to turn artificial intelligence loose on it. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is working on ways computers can tag data on satellite imagery to free up time for analysts. Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione talks about the Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique with IARPA program manager Jack Cooper.
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Can you predict the future? Or at least gauge the probability of political or economic events in the near future? Philip Tetlock of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Superforecasting talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his work on assessing probabilities with teams of thoughtful amateurs. Tetlock finds that teams of amateurs trained in gathering information and thinking about it systematically outperformed experts in assigning probabilities of various events in a competition organized by IARPA, research agency under the Director of National Intelligence. In this conversation, Tetlock discusses the meaning, reliability, and usefulness of trying to assign probabilities to one-time events. Actually released 21 Dec 2015.
This episode of the podcast was recorded live at the “This Study Shows” Sci-Mic stage at the 2020 AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Khari Douglas interviews Dr. John Beieler, a former program manager at IARPA and currently the Director of Science and Technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this episode they discuss working in national security and the technical challenges the intelligence community is facing.
The intelligence community is looking for what it calls tools and technologies for rapid capabilities against the pandemic. And it's calling on industry and academia for proposals. Promising ones will get seedling awards to develop them further. Joining the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details, the deputy director of research at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, Dr. Catherine Cotell.
Mayank Kejriwal is a researcher in the field of artificial intelligence with a focus on developing high-impact AI technology for addressing important social challenges, such as human trafficking and disaster response. His work has been funded by DARPA and IARPA. Lately, Mayank has been working on building a knowledge graph out of the tens of thousands of papers written about COVID-19 as well as hooking directly into what people are saying via social media to better understand the social and economic effects of this very unique time.All episodes: https://establishingyourempire.com Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/EYE-ApplePodcasts Spotify: https://bit.ly/EYE-Spotify Welcome to the Establishing Your Empire show. A podcast that inspires entrepreneurs, creatives and future business owners to pursue their passions, grow their organizations and build their empire. My name is Daran Herrman and creatively I’m best known for my photography. But business wise my claim to fame is growing a company from $15K per month in online sales to breaking the one million dollar a month barrier. And I’m sitting down with interesting people to talk about their process, the lessons they learned and how they have Established their Empire’s.
In this interview, we have the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Lewis, Senior Vice President at CosmiQ Works. Ryan gives us an update about the current SpaceNet Challenge, projects at CosmiQ Works, and gives us an insightful discussion about the geospatial industry. Listen in and check out the details. CosmiQ website: www.cosmiqworks.org describes all of our projects, etc. SpaceNet website: www.spacenet.ai data download links SpaceNet 6 TopCoder landing page: www.topcoder.com/spacenet About SpaceNet SpaceNet, launched in August 2016 as an open innovation project offering a repository of freely available imagery with co-registered map features. Before SpaceNet, computer vision researchers had minimal options to obtain free, precision-labeled and high-resolution satellite imagery. Today, SpaceNet hosts datasets developed by its own team, along with data sets from projects like IARPA’s Functional Map of the World (fMoW). About CosmiQ Works Founded in 2015 as a technology challenge lab within In-Q-Tel (IQT), CosmiQ Works is an IQT Lab focused on developing, prototyping, and evaluating emerging open-source artificial intelligence capabilities for geospatial use cases. Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change how geospatial analytics is performed and CosmiQ Works helps accelerates the development and adoption of these technologies into deployable products. And by the way, it’s pronounced “Cosmic.” About Us Project Geospatial is a podcast hosted by Adam Simmons and Mason Rothman dedicated to increasing awareness of Geospatial Technology, education resources, and industry best practices. Our show is comprised of industry professionals who discuss diverse topics such as new geospatial projects, innovations, and resources that benefit the overall community. If you are an industry professional reach out to us, we’d love to hear your feedback or have you on the show. Listen in and check us out at projectgeospatial.com Support Us! Enjoy listening to the show? We ask that you support us as we continue to provide great content on the Geospatial industry discussing News, best practices, and having guest speakers related to the latest industry projects. You can contribute to our continued operation through https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support and https://www.patreon.com/projectgeospatial Your contribution keeps our website running and funds our ability to cover conferences on various events beyond the GEOINT Symposium. If you represent a company in the industry and would like to talk about your product or service on our show please, reach out to us. Thanks for listening!
In this interview, we have the pleasure of interviewing Nick Weir, Senior Data Scientist at CosmiQ and Challenge Manager at SpaceNet LLC. Nick gives us an update about the current SpaceNet Challenge, goes into how challenge tasks are selected and gets into a deeper discussion about the geospatial industry. Watch the show and check it out. CosmiQ website: www.cosmiqworks.org describes all of our projects, etc. SpaceNet website: www.spacenet.ai data download links SpaceNet 6 TopCoder landing page: www.topcoder.com/spacenet SpaceNet GitHub org, which contains all of the open-source solutions from past challenges: github.com/spacenetchallenge CosmiQ’s Solaris GitHub page: www.github.com/cosmiq/solaris About SpaceNet SpaceNet, launched in August 2016 as an open innovation project offering a repository of freely available imagery with co-registered map features. Before SpaceNet, computer vision researchers had minimal options to obtain free, precision-labeled and high-resolution satellite imagery. Today, SpaceNet hosts datasets developed by its own team, along with data sets from projects like IARPA’s Functional Map of the World (fMoW). About CosmiQ Works Founded in 2015 as a technology challenge lab within In-Q-Tel (IQT), CosmiQ Works is an IQT Lab focused on developing, prototyping, and evaluating emerging open-source artificial intelligence capabilities for geospatial use cases. Artificial intelligence will fundamentally change how geospatial analytics is performed and CosmiQ Works helps accelerates the development and adoption of these technologies into deployable products. And by the way, it’s pronounced “Cosmic.” About Us Project Geospatial is a podcast hosted by Adam Simmons and Mason Rothman dedicated to increasing awareness of Geospatial Technology, education resources, and industry best practices. Our show is comprised of industry professionals who discuss diverse topics such as new geospatial projects, innovations, and resources that benefit the overall community. If you are an industry professional reach out to us, we’d love to hear your feedback or have you on the show. Listen in and check us out at projectgeospatial.com Support Us! Enjoy listening to the show? We ask that you support us as we continue to provide great content on the Geospatial industry discussing News, best practices, and having guest speakers related to the latest industry projects. You can contribute to our continued operation through https://anchor.fm/projectgeo/support and https://www.patreon.com/projectgeospatial Your contribution keeps our website running and funds our ability to cover conferences on various events beyond the GEOINT Symposium. If you represent a company in the industry and would like to talk about your product or service on our show please, reach out to us. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Kerry Long’s role at IARPA is to make the Intelligence Community more secure in the tech world. His vision of the future of cloud computing is to fundamentally change the way we use computers to be more secure. His hope is to redesign how all of us interact with computers to get ahead of hackers and breaches. His program, VirtUE, will soon be released to the world as open source code to promote cloud security and ingenuity. He also philosophizes about what cyber space really means as the only truly human-created domain.When asked what is the most critical aspect of cloud security, Mr. Long answered, “Depending on users to secure their environment.” The current shared service model has cloud hosts providing a hypervisor (or virtual machine monitor [VMM]) and physical security of the data center while the user is responsible for their own data security. Most users are not security experts and they shouldn’t be, as Long argues that the cloud providers need to take on more security responsibilities. He points out that small-to-medium-sized businesses rarely have adequate IT resources to properly secure their own servers and, therefore, the cloud is a much more secure option because of hypervisors and other systems being updated nearly every day.Long goes on to detail how we build things without knowing the ramifications because engineers can’t fathom every possible way a user would or could use it. The problem with pre-cloud computing is that we were stuck with those decisions for decades. “What I love about the cloud is it constantly gives you a chance to do-over.The cloud is anything that we want it to be. The cloud providers change out their infrastructure every 18 months to two years with brand new hardware. They are innovating and adding new things every week, every two weeks, and taking things out that don’t work. It’s an amazing opportunity as an engineer to say ‘hey, actually I thought I was smart, but I’m smarter now.’VirtUE (Virtuous User Environment) is an IARPA program managed by Mr. Kerry Long that is an example of using the cloud and re-engineering it to be more secure for tomorrow. Traditional memory computers are running too many roles at once while in comparison cloud computing can separate roles. VirtUE is trying to engineer ways to make the separate environments function seamlessly for users while maintaining the security. This program is coming to an end soon, and will be released as open source code for the world to examine and work on.VirtUE is related to SCITE (Scientific advances to Continuous Insider Threat Evaluation)Link to IARPA: www.iarpa.gov IARPA facilitates the transition of research results to their Intelligence Community customers for operational application.Link to IARPA profile for Kerry Long: https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/20-program-managersMr. Kerry Long’s Research Areas at IARPA: Cloud security, evolving security using the technologies of the Cloud, hypervisor security and instrumentation, novel operating system monitoring techniques, malicious cyber behavior detection analytics, edge computing TIME STAMPS00:07 Cloud Computing01:11 Who is Kerry Long, IARPA, Cybersecurity02:00 Mission of IARPA02:45 Cloud Security and Potential of Cloud Computing03:59 Getting Ahead of Security Breaches05:35 What is the most critical aspect of cloud security?07:11 Cloud security options for businesses and individuals09:58 What data is at risk of being stolen?12:38 Cyber Engineering13:50 Cloud Engineering & Infrastructure15:18 What is a VirtUE – Virtuous User Environment?18:59 How Safe is our Cyber Community?21:00 Redesigning Computing with the Cloud23:22 The Future of Computing24:18 VirtUE as Open Source
This week we present two stories from people who had to become leaders whether they liked it or not. Part 1: Eager to show off their new job testing water quality, Prof.Ound takes their friends out on a boat for the first time. Part 2: Neuroscientist BethAnn McLaughlin reckons with her past failures to adequately address the sexual harassment she witnesses in science. Prof.Ound is a Bronx-born and raised spoken word artist, actor, writer, educator and environmentalist. Prof.Ound’s creative work is notable for its Afrocentric emphasis on audience participation and conveying moral/ethical lessons. Merging these aesthetic values into their ecological restoration work and background, Prof.Ound has been developing and workshopping a culturally responsive arts-based outdoor education pedagogy. Prof.Ound strives to ensure the full participation and autonomous leadership of marginalized communities in environmental movements. Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin is an assistant professor in the departments of Neurology and Pharmacology at Vanderbilt specializing in mitochondrial and redox stress signaling in neurological injury and disease. She has received major research funding from the NIH, the DoD, the Dan Marino Foundation, the AHA and IARPA. Her career was sidetracked in 2014 when she experienced retaliation after being a witness in a Title IX investigation. Recently, the National Academy of Sciences gold ribbon panel revealed that her experience was all too common for women in science and medicine. The majority of women in these fields are sexually harassed, very few report, and the consequence of reporting is almost always retaliation. The rates of assault and harassment of those we seek to include most including people of color, LGBTQI and individuals with disabilities are far higher and even more devastating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John Brisson , Jason Lindgren, Jimmy Gene and Crrow 777 join us to discuss global enslavement by HARPA, IARPA We also discuss the Sandy Hook promise commercial that was put out this week. Listen to the Fringe Live Sundays at 7pm eastern on Truth Frequency Radio: http://tfrlive.com/infinitefringe/ Download the podcast version on Itunes or podbean: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-infinite-fringe/id1208767895?mt=2 https://theinfinitefringe.podbean.com Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Obi1unome Email me: theinfinitefringe@gmail.com
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Andy and Dave discuss a new IARPA program, Camera Network Research Data Collection, which intends to identify and track subjects across areas as large as six miles via a security camera footage of varying type and quality. DARPA announces the recipients of its Next-Generation Non-Surgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, which includes efforts to read from and write to the brain. The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center adds two new areas of focus: cybersecurity, and robotic process automation. Roborder, a provider of autonomous swarms of heterogeneous robots for border surveillance, will be running three pilot programs in Europe. Ford announced a team-up with Agility Robotics to launch a self-driving vehicle service by 2021, using Digit to deliver packages to doorsteps. The Computing Community Consortium and the Association for the Advancement of AI have made a request for comments on a draft of a “20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US.” In research items, Facebook AI, UT Austin, and UC Berkley announced research that uses “active observation completion” to demonstrate the emergence of look-around behaviors. And other research from UT Berkley explores the benefits of self-driving vehicles using “social perception” of the nearby drivers in order to gain additional information. Click here to visit our website and explore the links mentioned in the episode.
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Video cameras are everywhere. Now the Intelligence Community seeks better ways to use the data they produce. It looks to the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to find companies that can help collect data from large camera networks. For what this project is all about, program manager Lars Ericson joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Stacey Dixon brings a mechanical engineering background to IARPA and discusses the positives and negatives to new technology in research programs.
Ritwik Gupta and Carson Sestili describe their use of deep learning in IARPA’s Functional Map of the World Challenge. “The idea is how can you take these very minute differences, not only in scale, but also in landscape, the buildings on there, etc., and identify different land functions. This makes it very different from just a traditional image classification problem because you have to take in not only the object of interest, which is like let’s say a building, but also its entire surroundings.”
In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Stacey Dixon, newly named director of Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the so-called "DARPA-for-spies." Dixon explains how IARPA's work helps the intelligence community forecast global events like cyberattacks, civil unrest and bio-threats, and advance capabilities that use artificial intelligence and machine learning. She also addresses China's outsize investments in high-tech industries, which she warns risks luring away U.S. and other talent.
SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dr. Steven Rieber, IARPA program manager, to discuss CREATE, which seeks to develop, and experimentally test, systems that use crowdsourcing and structured analytic techniques to improve analytic reasoning. [CLICK HERE](https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/create/) for more information on the program. [CLICK HERE](http://join.createbetterreasoning.com) to sign up.
AndrewLeigh.com, Author providedRandomised controlled trials are the gold standard in medical research. Researchers divide participants into two groups using the equivalent of flipping a coin, with one group getting a new treatment and a control group getting either the standard treatment or a placebo. It’s the best way to prove that a new treatment works. But the benefits of randomised trials aren’t limited to medical applications. Big businesses – like Amazon, Google, Facebook and even media organisations – are increasingly using randomised trials to test designs and processes that increase their engagement with users and customers. Every time you Google something you’re probably participating in a randomised trial. And that world of randomisation is the subject of Andrew Leigh’s new book, Randomistas: How radical researchers changed our world. Leigh is the current federal member for Fenner, and Labor’s shadow assistant treasurer. But prior to his political life he was a professor of economics at Australian National University. He spoke with the University of Melbourne’s Fiona Fidler about how we should be using randomised trials more to drive decisions and policy in public life and why we might be missing out on better results in social policy because we’re afraid to test our assertions. Andrew Leigh’s Randomistas: How radical researchers changed our world is out now from Black Inc books. His podcast on living a health, happy and ethical life, The Good Life, is available on Apple Podcasts or wherever you stream your podcasts. Subscribe to The Conversation’s Speaking With podcasts on Apple Podcasts, or follow on Tunein Radio. Music Free Music Archive: Blue Dot Sessions - Wisteria Fiona Fidler receives funding from the Australian Research Council and IARPA.
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has launched an effort to develop special language processing software.
In the latest Geointeresting podcast we sat down with Dr. Stacey Dixon, deputy director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. She talks to us about her efforts to advance women in science, technology, mathematics and engineering; the future of technology in the intelligence community; and what she believes are characteristics of a great leader. Bonus! By listening to this podcast you will also learn why many IARPA research projects reference Tolkien!
If you want to learn about cognitive biases all humans share, you might start with Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, or the paper he wrote in 1974 with friend and colleague Amos Tversky, ‘Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’. Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner have given us an interesting way to practice doing so in their book, Super Forecasting. In their story about a relatively small group of super forecasters who beat IARPA’s own government-backed researchers in a tournament of geopolitical forecasting, Tetlock and Gardner provide a blueprint for beginning one’s own journey of forecasting better than the average human (or at least better than you yourself do now). You can support my work at https://patreon.com/evm/
Episode 39 of the NonProphets podcast, in which Atief, Robert, and Scott announce that IARPA's new Hybrid Forecasting Competition is looking for volunteer forecasters (00:19), interrupt their own discussion to explain that some of the podcast audio was lost due to what they believe was an attack by a rogue AI (06:28), discuss to what extent we can trust the output of AI forecasters (08:09), talk about the "value-alignment problem" in AI design (21:39), and return to the question of how much we can trust AI before the podcast is mysteriously cut off (26:46). As always, you can reach us at nonprophetspod.wordpress.com, or nonprophetspod@gmail.com. (recorded 8/16/2017)
This week, The Cipher Brief brings you a special best of episode of one of our most fascinating guests, Jason Matheny, Director of IARPA, the research branch for the intelligence community that works on ways to tell the future. The Cipher Brief’s CEO and Publisher, Suzanne Kelly, spoke with Jason about what exactly IARPA does, what keeps him up at night, and if there’s ways to predict political instability and unrest.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Veterans Affairs has posted its first list of employee removals, suspensions and demotions showing 525 VA staffers have been fired since President Trump took office in January.
Summary Amy Sterling and Chris Jordan of EyeWire talk about mapping the neurons and synapses of the brain. Details Who they are, what is EyeWire, how it started. About the brain, 80 billion neurons in a human brain, 100 trillion synapses. It used to take 1000 hours to map a neuron now it takes 80 hours. 250,000 users from around the world. Combined effort of players and AI. EyeWire is focusing on 1 cubic mm of a brain which has a 100,000 neurons and billion synapses. Where EyeWire's data goes after mapping. Why are they building EyeWire, to learn why we are the way we are, we don't know how many types of cell are in the brain. The EyeWire tech stack. Building a community, media engagement, internships, competitions. Moving towards open source for parts of EyeWire. How they make money, or not! Future work, IARPA. Joining EyeWire or other citizen science projects, World VR forum, Games for Change.
JOIN US TOMORROW RADIONIGHT @ 7:00 PM EST ON GLOBAL SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION - New York City Welcomes Back World Renown Scholar & Theologian DR. TEXE MARRS - PRESIDENT OF THE POWER OF PROPHECY - Austin, Texas.Dr. Marrs - My Co-Host Apostle Carlos Rosas & I Will Discuss His Blockbuster Book: 'ROBOT ALCHEMY - THE GLOBAL PLAN OF DARPA & IARPA TO ELIMINATE HUMANITY".OPEN LINES @ 1-929-477-3997.
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SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Dr. Stacey Dixon, the Deputy Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Drs. Houghton and Dixon discuss some of the advanced scientific and technological research that will transform intelligence far into the 21st Century.
This week The Cipher Brief's CEO and Publisher Suzanne Kelly sits down with Jason Matheny, Director of IARPA, the research branch for the intelligence community that works on ways to tell the future. In the second part of the interview, she asks Matheny what keeps him up at night, and if there's ways to predict political instability and unrest.
This week The Cipher Brief's CEO and Publisher Suzanne Kelly sits down with Jason Matheny, Director of IARPA, the research branch for the intelligence community that works on ways to tell the future. In the first part of the interview, she asks Matheny what exactly IARPA does and how it accurately forecasts events.
The participants are average citizens: school teachers, waiters, pharmacists, perhaps even your neighbor. By day they work and pay their bills, but when they return home, things change. These elite individuals go to work forecasting the outcomes of global events (sometimes years into the future), all at the direction of a little-known government intelligence agency called IARPA.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Can you predict the future? Or at least gauge the probability of political or economic events in the near future? Philip Tetlock of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Superforecasting talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his work on assessing probabilities with teams of thoughtful amateurs. Tetlock finds that teams of amateurs trained in gathering information and thinking about it systematically outperformed experts in assigning probabilities of various events in a competition organized by IARPA, research agency under the Director of National Intelligence. In this conversation, Tetlock discusses the meaning, reliability, and usefulness of trying to assign probabilities to one-time events.
The participants are average citizens: school teachers, waiters, pharmacists, perhaps even your neighbor. By day they work and pay their bills, but when they return home, things change. These elite individuals go to work forecasting the outcomes of global events (sometimes years into the future), all at the direction of a little-known government intelligence agency called IARPA.While this all sounds ripped from the latest Hollywood thriller, the truth is that this is happening right now in America. The "superforecasters," as they are known, are all volunteers. They are Americans like you and me who signed up to take part in a long-running experiment put together by U.S. intelligence officials and several university professors.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week I sat down with Dr. Jason Matheny, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). IARPA invests in high-risk, high-payoff research programs to address national intelligence problems, from language recognition software to forecasting tournaments to evaluate strategies to “predict” the future. Dr. Matheny shed light on how IARPA selects cutting-edge research projects and how its work helps ensure intelligence guides sound decision- and policymaking. He also offers his advice to young scientists just starting their careers. Listen to a fascinating conversation with the leader of one of the coolest research organizations in the U.S. government, and follow IARPA on Twitter @IARPANews.
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