man: in the 1970s and 1980s with significant darpa impetus and some darpa funding a variety of new technologies emerged, including the global positioning system, long-range data links, lightweight computer equipment and composite materials, as well as satellite communications and digital flight controls. the albatross, the amber were the harbingers of the modern era of uavs. karem: we were a total team of three people. and we proved a lot of what we wanted to prove. the secretary of the navy and the head of darpa, they said "okay, you fly 500 hours, how many are you going to crash?" we ended up not crashing any in the 500 hours we did for the military. narrator: karem's amber prototype never went into full production, but after a number of incarnations, by the mid '90s his design became known as the predator. man: do not handle the missile by the strikes wings, fins, seeker head rocket motor, nozzles, umbilical connector, or housing during loading to prevent damage to equipment and/or injury to personnel. karem: my uavs were not meant to be armed. it was really built for the cold war when we ha

to create the world's highest definition camera, antoniades needed to design a new imaging chip but darpa, the project's funder, wanted to move fast and keep costs down, so he borrowed technology that most people have in their pockets. antoniades: inside this cell phone we find a tiny little camera. so if you were to take off the majority of it you'd be left with an imaging chip. if you were to take 368 of these and make a big mosaic out of them and start shooting images now you have argus. narrator: unlike the predator camera that limits field of view, argus melds together video from each of its 368 chips to create a 1.8 billion pixel video stream. this makes it possible to zoom in and still see tremendous detail. whether argus has been deployed in the field is classified. antoniades: i'm not at liberty to discuss plans with the government. but if we had our choice we would like argus to be over the same area 24 hours a day seven days a week. that's not very easily achievable with manned platforms. this is where uavs come in and they're absolutely the perfect platform. narrator: argus ma

greg found his way to my lab and i was just received a big research grant from darpa.idn't know him well. he basically wouldn't leave. he wouldn't allow me to tell him no. and he kept saying -- i'm your guy, darrell. after a while, he just basically wore me down and i made a decision kind of on the spot, this guy has the spark. with that little opening, i was able to convince him that this was a good opportunity and actually it worked out really well. we had a number of crazy ideas that we would try. and they would always sort of end up in some type of a public indication. the newest idea we had was to come up with the $100 spike. the idea was can you take all the equipment that we had, that cost darrell like $40,000, and reduce it down to the most simplest thing that you could actually record a neuron for under $100. >> to really unlock the secrets of the brain, requires a state-of-the-art technology. there's a certain cost associated with that. they made the first one out of wood and paper clips. kind of blew me away. >> so we wrote the business plan for the competit

dark for example you had to dial up darpa and that was it you couldn't go to a browser and type in you know russia today dot com and come up with russia today and go there so the computer fraud and abuse act in and of itself is completely outmoded and isn't made to fit today's internet so the idea that they're going to just all of a sudden say oh well you know this one thing is a really good idea we need to recognize. that happening overnight i don't see it but this is brilliant and it's really i'm really. i really want to applaud the people that took this initiative because this is really the beginning of a dialogue in this direction and for that we're very glad interesting and you know we're seeing it technology. rapidly improve a lot more and more of our lives are being conducted on line so as this kind of continues to be the trend do you can you expect this to be the future of protesting were protesting will also move into the the digital and cyber realm. absolutely i think this is the first step into. a much larger. digital protests we've called them digital sit ins the idea and n

something called darpa. government grant helped fund the internet. yes, it did. i don't know about al gore but i do know that the government, a government grant put the money into what we now know as the internet. the government did that. the government funded the project for mapping the human genome. the government. government's not always bad. , so we should teach some programs, we -- so, we should teach some programs, we should lower some others. but we've got to think about this thing in a different wathan we are. all i want to say, mr. speaker, as i begin to wrap up, is that it's an honor and privilege to be able to serve in this, the greatest deliberative body in the world. and even though we have big fights with our republican colleagues, it's an honor to serve with them too. we're both here, sent here, by the 435 districts that we represent to argue our positions and try to come to some kind of solution. i believe that we can have solutions if everyone has an eye toward exro miles. but that depend upon everybody starting out, carrying out the vision of th

interestingly, is funded directly by the federal government, by the national institutes of health, darpa or one of the other federal agencies or indirectly through the research tax credit that we provide for businesses to engage in research. so research being one of the investments that lead to economic growth. you mentioned the second one, very interesting, and that's education. well-educated work force will be competitive across the world. that is the most critical investment. again, a role for the federal government, certainly a role for states and local governments, but a role for the american society that cannot be ignored. research education. and you drew it very, very correctly, and that is the manufacturing that comes from that. manufacturing matters, and how do you do? you need to be in front of it. and when you talk about the research and manufacturing technology, spot on. that is the third critical investment. the fourth one we talked about here, and that is infrastructure. these are four of the critical investments that we need to make as a society. some of that falls on indi