but we welcome darpa's director. [applause] she's now running darpa. but she has been back and forth from the government sector to the silicon valley. she has had many huge jobs in both sectors. president clinton appointed her the director of national institute of standards and technology. she was running part of darpa as a manager in office director. she held huge jobs in the private sector. so, perhaps the woman with the coolest job in the city is going to prefix playing what darpa's role is. >> thank you very much, first of all, mary for the chance to be here. i think it is great to shine a light on this topic. you set about darpa a minute ag o, is correct. we were created in the wake of sputnik. we did not want to experience those kinds of surprises anymore. we like creating them instead. that's what darpa is about. the internet is one of our babies we are very proud of, but it is a fractious teenager now. our mission today is still about breakthrough technology for national security. in cybersecurity, during the day, i think you will hear from peo

that's what darpa is about.e internet is one of our babies we are very proud of, but it is a fractious teenager now. todays still about breakthrough technology for national security. in cybersecurity, during the day, i think you will hear from people who are fighting these battles about how we keep ourselves secure. i'm grateful for the work that is going on today. our role is different. what arere asking is, the technology concepts that can fundamentally change the ground rules and give us a way to get of ahead of this explosion talent? >> give us some good news. teams.ds people in what are they working on that will tame the unruly teenager? >> i will give you three examples. things we are working on is how to completely reduce the attack surface so it is harder for hackers to find ways in. including embedded systems. >> ways -- >> in ways. how many ways in. a second example is we are looking at a really interesting new challenge -- the cyber grant challenge -- to find out how we could have automated system to

the darpa challenge.hey said at the time that whoever could build a car that could drive itself from los angeles to las vegas would win a million dollars. about a handful of students and i built a car that would drive the course. >> and you did. >> this has to be slightly faster than anybody else. which gave us the first prize. >> i think that is called winning. i rode in the self driving car about four years ago. >> you remember. >> how far has it come since then? >> at this point, i confidently tell you it drives better than me. if you were to drive with me, then you would beg me for the car to take over because it keeps the lane much better, it brakes more gently. it anticipates things much faster than i can. >> would you drive in a self driving car with your family across the country? >> i have done this many times. i have a vacation time in lake tahoe and i've taken my family up many times. of course, i am behind the wheel as a safety mechanism. >> have you ever had any issues? any problems? >> of co

we liked creating them and that's what darpa has been about for six decades. internet is one of our babies were very proud of, but it is in the fractious teenage period with all the problems we are dealing with. the mission today in cybersecurity during the day i think you are going to be hearing from people typing these tough battles today about how to we keep ourselves secure and engage in a policy issue. i'm very grateful for the work going on in our role is a little bit different because what we are asking about a cybersecurity is what are the technology concepts that could change the ground rules and give us a way to get out ahead of this explosion of challenges. >> give us some good news whether you big brains over there you find people in teams. so what are they working on that will kind of pay that to niche? >> i will give you two examples that we can talk about all or any of them in more detail. we are looking at how to completely reduce the surface so it's hard to find ways to move into the internet. >> this means vulnerable ways. the second example

the darpa challenge. they said that whoever could build a car that could drive itself from los angeles to las vegas. about a handful of students and you build a car that would drive the hell. >> and you did. >> this has to be slightly faster than anybody else. which gave us the first prize. >> i wrote in the -- i rode in thes self driving car about four years ago. how far has it come since then? >> it drives better than me. if you were to drive with me, then you would beg me for the car to take over because it keeps the lane much better, it breaks more gently. >> would you drive in a self driving car with your family across the country? >> definitely. i've taken my family up many times. of course, i am behind the wheel as a safety mechanism. >> have you ever had any issues? any problems? >> of course. in the early days, we had no experience in the rain. the first thing we had this water splashing up, it looked like phantom cars up enough left -- cars hopping up left and right and all of a sudden it goes i

to the darpa challenge. >> he came.or me, he is one of the rare people that inspires me. >> how did they get you to come to google? >> i was at the point where i really wanted to explore what it means to work in silicon valley. so i started a team that -- at stanford that basically built a street technology. he stopped by and said, hey, join google. >> at what point did larry and sergei said, hey, we also want to do self driving cars. and you know something about that. >> larry said, it is time to do something courageous. that is really out there, a moonshot. he had to convince me. he said, build a car that can drive itself safer than humans. i said that it is hard. he said well, give it a try. don't blame me if i screw it up. ♪ >> you helped found google x, the moonshot factory. how did that come about? >> i drank the kool-aid. i was at the point where i waved away all be skepticism and said just do it and see what happens. it turns out that the leadership, they are kind of the same personality. they said, absolutely y

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based on his albatross demonstrator, he got a contract from the fan safety darpa to develop a larger uav in a similar configuration for the services. he named that drove amber. in 1889, a single darpa official wrote in a magazine article that provided in order of magnitude increase in the flight times recorded the previous uavs have led the joint chiefs of staff to establish a new endurance category and an unmanned aircraft master plan ordered by congress. yet largely for personal or bureaucratic reasons that i detail in the book mccarran was unable to sell to the defense department and the company he created to build them what encrypt when he was 90. but thanks to some other unorthodox thinkers, abe karam's ideas, his revolutionary ideas didn't die when his company did. those ideas were rescued and his top engineers were hired by a pair of brothers who had a genius for business to match karem's genius for aeronautics. i think i turned it off. their names are neil and linda blue. they're the private owners of the san diego general predator subatomic than while they are now in the lat

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think about this disease and how to counteract it going forward, as toure mentioned, you worked at darpa, the super secret department of defense research arm, but you've also worked on disease countermeasures. is there a better way for us to get ahead of this disease? do we need to think differently about the protocols around this? >> no. that's a very good question. i think it deserves a lot of le thinking about it. we're dealing with these cases on an individual basis in west africa where obviously, you know, the greatest number of tragedies are occurring. we see -- we have to deal with it again at a large scale. we simply don't have the people to do it. i do think we have to think of some better ways to do it. during the smallpox eradication program, the original idea was mass eradication. bill fagge at cdc and heading the program in india thought, if we can't immunize 80% of the population, how are we get to get 100% of the population immunized? he thought another way to do it with this ring vaccination, vaccinating people just in contact with or near known smallpox cases. that succe

budget, even though there's been some cap to include science and tech, and you maybe think about some darpa innovations around security, around flying vehicles, that they and others as we do basic research can bring to bear to solving the problem, not just a regulation that technology solutions around control and security. >> for instance? >> the darpa folks have demonstrated some ideas about how to make sure people can't break into the internet of things technology, and how are we going to address that. as we begin to censor is a discrete technologies that can help us. just want to make sure that a secure network and having someone like darpa and nsf funded, other researchers working on those problems will important. >> you have this -- i guess what you're most excited about. you have been here a month. where you feel like there are places with resources but also the constraints as a federal official, i don't know, you can change this behemoth bureaucracy that we've got speed and i love to work on technologies that help people's quality of life. help a big challenges and focus their as wel

darpa named that little drone the amber.senior darpa official wrote in a magazine article that the amber provided an order of magnitude increase in the flight times recorded by previous uavs and that it had led the joint chiefs of staff to establish a new endurance category in unmanned aircraft master plan ordered up by congress. yet largely for personal and bureaucratic reasons that i detail in the book, karem was unable to sell hess drones to the defense department and company he created to build them went bankrupt in 1990. but, thanks to some other unorthodox thinkers, abe karem's ideas, his revolutionary ideas about uavs didn't die when his company did. . . they made the cover of life magazine. by flying a pace or around latin america during summer vacation. they decided to make the trip trip either way before they ever took their first flying lesson. [laughter] and that's because they were not just sightseeing. the blue brothers were born and bred entrepreneurs and hoped to find business opportunities they might pursue

that was his first entry went darpa was running one of the grand challenges. >> he tells the story about how they are ready to go and he messes something up at the last minute and it folds over. it like -- you can look the genesis of the self driving car. >> gentleman on the right, please. >> i have two questions. this is a very appropriate day to have this panel because this is the birthday of elwood haynes, one of the early pioneers of the automobile whose first gas powered automobile is in the smithsonian. he also was the first to get involved in an automobile accident. i would ask the panel to talk a little bit more about how they see the common-law personal injury evolving with self driving cars. my second question is if in fact people who have time while they are commuting to read and to do work and to watch movies are going to be interested in commuting longer, why hasn't that already happening because people already have that opportunity? those are my two questions. the evolution of personal injury law and why we haven't seen it increase in commuting time already. say something b

the last thing, this goes back to what the director of darpa was talking about. we need a more secure infrastructure. we have gotten good at building more secure houses based on infrastructure that is sand. that is still sand. that is got to be changed over time. otherwise it is a bunch of bandits. wishic, it if you had a list, what would that include? goodey've made a very progress at the beginning in public-private relationships. there needs to be more consistency across the platform when we talk about threat information sharing. private industry is very hungry for threat information. the white house has indicated with the executive order that it is a mandate that this information should be shared. moving down that road as they continue to do that would be a positive thing. >> another question print e-mail or social media. .> from twitter as a company, you assume you're going to be breached. what is that mean for insurers? if you are meeting a government standard, what does it mean for insurance? >> insurance is a hard problem. people have been talking about cy

the virtual knock at the door from the department of defense, and darpa, a very passionate colonel who happened to be coming back from his fourth defensive trip to afghanistan and iraq. by the way, this colonel is a neurosurgeon. and it is in my office saying i can't believe it, at the end of the civil war when a soldier lost his arm, we put a wooden stick on them with a hook on it. now look at the technology we do these young people to defend us, but when you lose the arm to an ied, we give them a plastic stick with the hook on it. these young people deserve way more than that, and you're going to deliver it. and then he described he wants full capability, fine motor control. he wants to flex at her wrist and elbow, flex at the shoulder, fully autonomous, complete a self-contained, carrying its own power, and be done in two years. >> and makes you appreciate how complicated and aren't is. >> i'm happy to say we delivered something that i think they were very excited about. we made a second generation when you have them on about 30 soldiers. >> wow. [applause] >> have you gotten to mee

and that was actually andrew's first entry when the darpa was still running the grand challenges, it was an autonomous motorcycle, and it had been, you know, he tells the story there was a new yorker article about how they're ready to go, and he messes something up at the last minute, and it falls over. so, you know, that was, that was the sort of -- can you could look at it as the genesis of the google self-driving car, was the self-driving motorcycle. >> gentleman on the right here please. >> david sobelson, washington d.c. i have two questions. this is a very appropriate day to have this panel, because this is the birthday of elwood haines, one of the early pioneers of the automobile, whose first gas-powered driving automobile is in the smithsonian. elwood haines also was the first to get involved in an automobile accident. so i would ask the panel to talk a little bit more about how they see the common law of personal injury evolving with self-driving cars. and my second question is if, in fact, people who have time while they're commuting to read and to do work and to watch movi

learned from past practice, prototype result to the department of defense and the intel committee, darpa and i spend billions of dollars that would be relevant to all of our capabilities and the things we would like to deploy to present these aspects of happening to her information technology or operational assets. i think it would be one of the next steps. we talked about, i don't know feature today but i read ready couple of his articles, david carrera i think it is, and he talked one of his recent articles about engineering out the cyberthreat. that aspect of actually increasing sort of from working on workforce, training and education, investing in security and engineering. >> sure. so information sharing, the oure energy is out there like the national cybersecurity center coordination, nccic that we participated. i know we literally have people on the floor of nccic we cohosted with the dhs, working information sharing, we have a committee patient's isac information sharing and analysis center that shares information today amongst come with and making notation notations commit is al