Archive for August 9th, 2011

 

DARPA: Automated Program Analysis for Cybersecurity

August 9th, 2011
DARPA:  Automated Program Analysis for Cybersecurity

Fresh on the heels of announcing a call for social media research, DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) has issued a solicitation for "innovative research proposals in the area of automated program analysis for cybersecurity." From the official broad agency announcement: Automated program analysis is a fundamentally hard problem. It has been known since the work of ...

NSF Awards CS-Led Health, Robotics Research Center

August 9th, 2011
University of Washington doctoral student Eric Rombokas interacts with a lifelike robotic hand that includes the same number of muscles and tendons as the human hand, allowing the possibility for a more seamless integration with the human nervous system. The robotic hand was built in the UW

Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new five-year, $18.5 million Engineering Research Center (ERC) that will pursue interdisciplinary research and education in areas of health and robotics: The NSF ERC for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (ERC/SNE) will create devices to restore or augment the body's capabilities for sensation and movement. The foundation for the new devices ...