prabhakar and secretary moniz darpa and arma e. a fledgling cousin in the department of energy you have a little different method of funding and a little different method of accountability. it's been enormously successful. the internet gps stealth and all these things. what can we learn from the way you fund and hold your investments to accountability that might be applied to other agencies? first darpa and then arpa-e. >> thank you senator alexander for the question. i know well your support of arpa-e building on the darpa model and it's been a delight to see that young agency get off to such a terrific start. i believe that there are a few core reasons that darpa has had outsized success over a number of decades. it begins with our mission which is to focus on breakthrough technologies. we are not in the business of incremental improvement. we are really looking for things that can create huge advances in capability. in our case of course that is for the national security. that mission has allowed us to do a number of things that

check out the darpa website. check out bto.resting thing to me is also about the reaction to all this is also largely government-funded so far. like, for example, one of my big things is ethics. i'm an ethics professor. when it comes to ethics of this technology, some. people most ahead of us is like the navy for example. i give them tons of credit. over here in annapolis and over here on the west coast. they have lethal autonomous robots. they have got robots that do not need a human to pull the trigger. they're called smart minds. these smart mind register, an enemy ship or not. they decide whether to blow it up. and because navy has this problem, right? you can't put electricity very easily through water. so they have a hard time communicating with their robots. so they are in the forefront of creating ethical robots. are they going to succeed? i have no idea. am i glad somebody is working on it? you bet. >> what role, some of these things being created, i assume darpa website doesn't have anything they're working on most li

so that's something of darpas history. our mission of breakthrough technology for national security is unchanged across five and a half decades. but of course the world in which we're investing and pursuing the mission that changed. so let me just give you a few examples of some of the things we're doing that really reflect the national security and the technology context that we're operating in today. in one arena, we see information at massive scale affecting every speak of national security, and so if you look in our portfolio you'll find game-changing investments in cyber and in big data programs, one example is work that we're doing to tackle the networks that drive human trafficking around the world, just as one example. in another arena we're looking at what is happening with the cost and the complexity of military systems today. we recognize that they are becoming too costly and too inflexible to be effective for the next generation of threats we'll face around the world. so at darpa today we are investing in progr

but check out the darpa web site.ith the reaction to all this is government thundered on dash funded so far. when it comes to the ethics of the technology those that are ahead of this is the navy. to give them than its of credit. they have the still autonomous robots that do not need a human to pull the trigger. these registers that enemy ship because the navy has this problem. said they have the a hard time to communicate so they're in the forefront to create the ethical robot will they succeed? i have no idea am i glad somebody is working on it? you bet. >>. >>host: i suppose the live site does not have everything. [laughter] but in the sense of things we are creating there it is practical use for madison and science that can help humanity that they could create molecule's they don't know what they will turn into. what role does the media have to shape opinions about these types of things? how important is there a media to shape opinion? with those cultural icons. >> we are going through a period now that the scient

think that darpa is juicy, you know? it's defense, gee, they get all this money and, therefore, darpa must be -- but according to your testimony, doctor, the total reduction in darpa was from 2009 to 2013 was 20%. >> that's right. >> that's pretty shocking. >> that's exactly the erosion followed by sequestration. so i do want to make sure we keep darpa healthy at a good level. i would, i want to shift though to the bigger picture, because one thing we haven't really emphasized here. twenty years ago when i was in public service, i was director at nist at that time. when i left w at that -- washington at that period of time, it was about half r&d. now it's only one-third of the total investment we make in the nation, and i think that is a macroscopic question about investment levels. i'm not -- so, yes, i think, you know, you've highlighted both issues, the big question about what kind of investment we're going to have as a cub -- as a country and then the near term issue about are we going to have this roller coaster --

suffered traumatic brain injuries and both of those wars the defense advanced research projects agency or darpa is behind this sophisticated memory stimulate her. all this is great news for those who suffered brain injuries some people see it in a different light. manipulating memories afterall and people could open up an ethical minefield also be noted that researchers have come a long way in understanding the manipulated to bring doctors are unable to produce travelers and people with parkinson's disease. cut back on seizures and even boost memory in some alzheimer's patients to a process called deep brain stimulation former secretary of state condoleezza rice lost out on a reported thirty five thousand dollars she backed out of delivering a commencement address at rutgers university the decision followed protests by faculty and student overwhelmed the iraq war. it examines the future to report on hosting same old former politicians accountable for their decisions the politicians accountable for their past and rare in the west as university students and faculty for taking on themselves to mak

darpa announcing a $26 million project to develop technology that would treat things like ptsd, anxietyion. the goal is to create an implant that can rewire the brain. >>> check out this new technology that will help our brave men and women fighting on the front lines. a small device attaches to their helmets and gives soldiers live updates. commanders can send maps, satellite footage and location of the enemy wirelessly. then it is displayed over one of their eyes. it is very similar to google glass. >>> the material girl switching gears. a no show at jury duty. ♪ ♪ and i am a material girl ♪ >> madonna reportedly got a doctor's note to excuse her from having to show up at a manhattan jury pool. funny thing, the day earlier she tweeted about riding her horse and frolicking on the beach over the holiday weekend. >> actor bill murray crashing a batch hrar party at a steak house in charleston, south carolina, offering words of wisdom. >> if you have someone that you think is the one [bleep] don't just sort of think, your ordinary mind, okay, let's make a date, let's plan this and make a p

find aon is, can way to accelerate the second curve of human response in an identical way to the way darpaaccelerates the first curve? i have launched something called the prevail project which is intended to see if we can do that. in that scenario, you ask yourself, how would you know if the prevail scenario was happening? what you would see was a lot of -- in increased pace of out of nowhere bottom-up, unexpected things. have we seen that lately? >what about ebay? that is hundreds of millions of people doing comforted things without leaders. what about facebook or twitter? i have no idea what is good for, but if it flips out tire it's -- hiring to be middle east -- if it flips out tyrants in the middle east, i am intrigued. >> coming from the millennial taking the example of going to wikipedia or some of the recent developments, the sites that- these use data to portray situations. very boiled down, simple models masquerading as truth. is that related to the technology or important to think about as we look at the role technology? >> i think we are seeing a fundamental shift in indicatio

these are the last three weeks two weeks of headlines chuck hagel giving a look at atlas darpa's humanitarian robot u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel got a firsthand look at a life sized robot that resembles hollywood's terminator the latest experiment by the pentagon's high tech researchers but unlike the movie version the whole king atlas was designed not as a warrior but as a humanitarian machine that would rescue victims in the rubble of a natural disaster official said so with their robots with their actions around the world it might look like the terminator those weaponry and those ships and those drones and everything that goes with it might look scary but they're all human terror. yeah what's the phrase that the beatings will continue until morrell improves so there's chuck to go with his drones as robots is financial oppression really bringing that humanitarian cause like they did so successfully in libya iraq afghanistan vietnam or even detroit for that matter these people are kleptomaniacs and should be trusted as far as you can throw them or if you get a chance throw up on them m

traumatic brain injuries in both of those wars the defense advancement research projects agency or darpa is behind the sophisticated memory stimulator well this is great news for those who have suffered brain injury some people see it in a different light manipulating memories and people could open up an ethical minefield should also be noted that researchers have come a long way in understanding and manipulating the brain doctors have been able to reduce tremors in people with parkinson's disease cut back on seizures among black epileptics and even boost memory in some alzheimer's patients through a process called deep brain stimulation. the former secretary of state condoleezza rice reportedly lost out on thirty five thousand dollars when she backed out of delivering the commencement address at rutgers university her decision followed protests by faculty and students over her role in the iraq war parties i'm sestina churkin a report on how students aim to hold former politicians accountable for their decisions. while the idea of accountability for politicians past seems to be nonexiste

the identical way the way darpa celebrates the technical challenges. a the prevail projects that is intended to do. and in that scenario, how do you know, if that prevail scenario is happening? i would guess you lindsay the outpaced of unexpected things. what about the bay? hundreds of millions of people doing complicated things without peters. facebook? twitter? i have no idea what it is good for but if it flips out every tyrant in the middle east i am interested. >> i am from yale university. the question between technology and truce. coming from the of millenials degeneration. and maybe going to rue leukopenia and then on the other hand, of the more recent developments and the size that attempt to use data or simple ways to depict complex situations that people understand what is going on with the idea of the of very boiled down simple model masquerading as truth is that is related to the technology? . . anything over 200 words, reading and writing is declining very fast because it is simply not going to be necessary, and i think what we don't under