Future And Emerging Technologies

We are developing new research into the impact on societies of transformative technological change and the implications of the development of disruptive technologies, including extreme computing and the longer term implications of advances in the biosciences. With the birth of DSN and its progression into academia through partnering universities such as Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Labs, WSN technology soon found a home in academia and civilian scientific research. Then as engineering students made their way into the corporate world of technology giants of the day, such as IBM and Bell Labs, they began promoting the use of WSNs in heavy industrial applications such as power distribution, waste-water treatment and specialized factory automation. Instead, new products are coming to market that simplify WSN hardware, such as wireless MCUs - system-on-chip (SoC) devices that contain a general-purpose MCU and an RF transceiver in a single chip. The plethora of battery technologies available today for WSNs enables system designers to tailor their energy storage devices to the needs of their applications. While batteries represent the preferred low-cost energy storage technology, energy harvesting/scavenging devices are beginning to emerge as viable battery replacements in some applications. Through advances in sensor, networking, semiconductor and energy storage technologies, future WSNs will combine to form the nervous system of the IoT. Devices from holographic lenses to personal robots continue to propel the current technological revolution. Is for forward-thinking scientists, engineers and other innovators interested in thinking interactively about the nature and scope of future technologies, their potential application to tomorrow's technical and societal challenges and the quandaries those applications may themselves engender. Will consider current and future advances in the physical and information sciences, engineering and mathematics through the lens of current and future national and global security dynamics, to reveal potentially attractive avenues of technological pursuit and to catalyze non-obvious synergies among participants. Will be a fast-paced gathering at which world-renowned thinkers and innovators from inside and outside DARPA will offer perspectives on where today's advances are heading. Through a variety of channels, everyone will be encouraged to help extend those ideas further into the future. From 2009-2011, she served as a senior policy advisor on emerging technology issues in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. A member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Committee on Science, Technology and Law, she co-chaired the committee that drafted the National Academies' Guidelines for Embryonic Stem Cell Research. Jeff Gore joined the Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an Assistant Professor in January 2010 after spending the previous three years in the Department as a Pappalardo Fellow working with Alexander van Oudenaarden. Ramesh Raskar is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. In 2004, Raskar received the TR100 Award from Technology Review, which recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35, and in 2003, the Global Indus Technovator Award, instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide. Jun Ye is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and a fellow of both the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute between NIST and CU. His research focuses on the frontier of light-matter interactions and includes ultrasensitive laser spectroscopy, optical frequency metrology, quantum optics using cold atoms and the science behind ultrafast lasers. Revolutionary advances in the biological sciences promise a host of new capabilities, from programmable microbes to brain-machine interfaces that interpret and correct disruptive neural wave forms or allow direct control of devices through thought alone. But advances like these are poised to raise difficult ethical and legal quandaries. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a senior policy advisor on emerging technology issues in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. A member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Committee on Science, Technology and Law, she co-chaired the committee that drafted the National Academies' Guidelines for Embryonic Stem Cell Research. From 2012-2013, he served as the Assistant Director for Medical Innovation of the Science Division at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Advances in physical sensing, leaps in computing power, an abundance of data and a host of other capabilities are advancing a revolution in science unlike any in the last 400 years, and are allowing us to tackle wicked problems that were intractable just a few years ago. For almost 30 years, Ivan Amato has chronicled the story of some of the most influential drivers of our times: science and technology. He is the author of three books—Super Vision: A New View of Nature (2003), Pushing the Horizon: Seventy-Five Years of High Stakes Science and Technology at the Naval Research Laboratory (1998), and Stuff: The Materials The World Is Made Of (1997). Amato's career has included writing and editing positions at publications including Science and Chemical & Engineering News. He has been a correspondent for National Public Radio and contributed to media outlets including Time, Fortune, the Washington Post, Nature, Technology Review and the Discovery Channel. He has also served as an editorial consultant to the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History. He is also head of the Computer Vision Group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) affiliated with the university. Darrell's group develops algorithms for large-scale perceptual learning, including object and activity recognition and detection, for a variety of applications including multimodal interaction with robots and mobile devices. Tom Kalil is deputy director for technology and innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and senior advisor for Science, Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council. In these roles, he serves as a senior White House staffer charged with coordinating the government's technology and innovation agenda. Prior to serving in the Obama Administration, Kalil was special assistant to the chancellor for science and technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he served for eight years in the Clinton White House, ultimately as the deputy assistant to the president for technology and economic policy and the deputy director of the National Economic Council. Kalil received a B.A. in political science and international economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and completed graduate work at Tufts University's Fletcher School. He served on DARPA's Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group from 2012 to 2015, where he co-organized a number of ISAT workshops. Prior to starting Adapteva, he worked at Analog Devices for 10 years, developing the TigerSHARC microprocessor for wireless communication and low-cost, mixed-signal system-on-a-chip (SOC) imaging applications. Paver received his Ph.D. in computer science and an M.S. in systems design, both from the University of Manchester (UK), and a B.S. in electronics from the University of Manchester Institute of Technology (UK). In 2010, the USRP family won the Technology of the Year award from the Wireless Innovation Forum. In 2011, Ettus was named an eminent member of Eta Kappa Nu, the IEEE's honor society for electrical and computer engineering, and was awarded the Wireless Innovation Forum International Achievement Award in 2015. Rondeau is active in many conferences and workshops around the world to help further research and technology in these areas, and he has consulted with many companies and government organizations on new techniques in wireless signal processing. John G. Clark is director of the Focused Technology Roadmaps organization within Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works). He is responsible for identifying, maturing, demonstrating and transitioning technology to address the needs for all Lockheed Martin aeronautics platforms. He directs a portfolio of technology roadmaps to implement business strategy and meet near-term R&D needs and platform pursuits. His portfolio comprises the Survivability, Software Systems, Electronic Warfare, Weapons, Sensors, Cyber, and Anti-Tamper Technology teams. Clark also previously served as the program manager of the Open System Architecture and Software Technology Roadmap for Skunk Works, where he worked on multiple command-and-control and autonomy program activities related to unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). Fisher's research focuses on advancing the theory and practice of programming languages and on applying ideas from the programming language community to the problem of ad hoc data management. Recently, she has been exploring synergies between machine learning and programming languages and studying how to apply advances in programming languages to the problem of building more secure systems. Nan Mattai serves as senior vice president of engineering & technology of Rockwell Collins, where she guides the corporation's technology vision and provides strategic leadership. She was named a 2014 influential woman in Defense Electronics and to the Army Technology Top 10 list of the Defense Industry's most powerful women in 2015. Advances in electronics, for example, have led to expanded functionalities in smaller satellites. Gold is responsible for a broad array of activities, including international business development, legal issues, congressional affairs and strategic planning. Additionally, he was appointed by the National Research Council to serve on the Space Technology Industry-Government-University roundtable, which provides direction and advice to NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate. In the visible and infrared, new advances are creating representations of the world beyond human perception. And in the territory between these RF and optical domains, promising new devices are starting to emerge that operate in this previously unattainable portion of the spectrum. Recent advances in neuroscience, microelectronics and information science are sparking new approaches to restoring lost abilities following brain injury or disease and eventually increasing human performance. A new technology vector at the intersection of biology, information science, and engineering is launching an era in which biological systems such as microbes can be programmed through the genetic code, enabling us to harness their unparalleled capabilities. DARPA is developing unmanned platforms, distributed sensing systems, and position awareness technology to facilitate access to the vast maritime expanse in all its manifestations, including arctic, littoral, deep water, and continental shelf, and in all of its many sea states. These are the new challenges that our Soldiers and Marines face now and into the future. Temple frequently trains law enforcement and other stakeholders in local, national and international settings. She first came to DARPA in 1986 as a program manager and was the founding director of the Agency's Microelectronics Technology Office. Arati served as director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1993 to 1997. She received her Ph.D. in applied physics and M.S. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and her B.S. in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University. At OGI, he earned several awards for outstanding teaching and gained international recognition for his work on the analysis and semantics of programming languages, the Haskell programming language in particular. His interests focus on applying methodological advances in genomics and biotechnology to optimize health and prevent disease, including novel nucleic acid-based immunoprophylaxis technologies for infectious disease prevention. Col Wattendorf previously served as Director, Air Force Medical Genetics Center and program manager for an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration integrating advanced diagnostics and informatics with surveillance systems to rapidly detect natural and hostile pathogens in the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General. Dr. Cohen joined DARPA from the University of Arizona, where he is professor and founding director of the university's School of Information: Science, Technology and Arts. Dive into the implications of a near future in which everybody is connected to thousands of networked devices embedded everywhere—a sensory swarm that is instrumented, interconnected and intelligently responsive. Learn how DARPA is paving the way to a national-security future in which complexity is wrangled to create systems of systems that function more reliably and safely than today's simpler,” more monolithic systems. Dr. Nils Sandell Jr. joined DARPA in March 2013 as the director of the Strategic Technology Office (STO). Dr. Sandell holds a B.E.E. degree from the University of Minnesota, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At Purdue, he led the IDEAS (Integrated Design of Electromagnetically-Applied Systems) Laboratory. He has been the advisor of numerous IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium best paper finalists, and coauthor of two best papers at the GOMACTech conference. Space robotics technology will help us build the infrastructure for vibrant, sustaining presence at GEO and beyond. Ms. Melroy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Astronomy from Wellesley College and a Master of Science in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Join us for a discussion that will take us into a near future where these technologies and quandaries are real, and witness a mock court in which expert commentators act as advocates and judges to probe some of the policy decisions and other societal challenges that lay ahead. Hear how a molecular biologist focused on fossils, a physicist fascinated by population dynamics, and an astrophysicist looking for life are exploring the rich intersection of biology, technology and data. She has previously served as the DARPA Chief of Staff, as well as the Deputy Director of and a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office, where she developed and managed programs in advanced navigation systems, as well as optical element design and manufacture. The future is now and it's time to take advantage of this technology through the internet and onto websites like mine, that are dedicated to engineering, architecture, and any CAD created drawing. Local universities continue to promote Coventry's international reputation for teaching and research in the transport sector, producing students and affiliated technology companies who are helping shape the future of transport across the globe. As digital natives, technology influences how students communicate, learn, work and interact with society as a whole more than any generation before. He worked as a Client Lead for many international brands, including P&G, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Telefónica, MINI, Audi, BMW and American Express. It is positioned among the top international research universities and focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to solving complex problems. Goethe University Frankfurt, positioned among the top international research universities, offers a wide variety of academic programmes, a diverse group of research institutes, and a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to solving complex problems. Companies large and small have flooded the market with all kinds of fitness trackers, smart watches, and other wearable devices.