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Cyborg Insect Drones are Capable of Injecting Sedatives or Truth Serum!

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June 26, 2012

The Future of Drone Surveillance Swarms of Cyborg Insect Drones

In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams — for construction, surveying disasters and far more.

GRASP LAB

The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory integrates computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in a vibrant, collaborative environment that fosters interactions between students, research staff and faculty. GRASP has grown into a $10 million research center with impressive technological innovations. Pioneering GRASP researchers are building autonomous vehicles and robots, developing self-configuring humanoids, and making robot swarms a reality. Our doctoral students are trained in theory and practice and mentored to become leaders in research and education. The graduates of the interdisciplinary Master’s in Robotics program are uniquely equipped to face research and development challenges of the fast-growing robotics industry.

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Future: Swarms of Cyborg Insect Drones Carry Out Military Surveillance and Attacks

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June 25, 2012

The Future of Drone Surveillance Swarms of Cyborg Insect Drones

In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams — for construction, surveying disasters and far more.

GRASP LAB

The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory integrates computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in a vibrant, collaborative environment that fosters interactions between students, research staff and faculty. GRASP has grown into a $10 million research center with impressive technological innovations. Pioneering GRASP researchers are building autonomous vehicles and robots, developing self-configuring humanoids, and making robot swarms a reality. Our doctoral students are trained in theory and practice and mentored to become leaders in research and education. The graduates of the interdisciplinary Master’s in Robotics program are uniquely equipped to face research and development challenges of the fast-growing robotics industry.

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Predictions: Money, Power and Wallstreet as the 2008 Crash Was Just the Appetizer, PBS Frontline 2012 Inside Story on What is Next to Come?

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June 3, 2012

How much did the financial crisis cost?

Total lost household wealth at $19.2 trillion only part of the story!

“Better Markets, a nonprofit watchdog for financial regulatory reform, recently attempted to analyze the full cost of the financial crisis, pulling together government data and outside studies. The group admits its own estimate [PDF] isn’t complete, either, but it lays out five major indicators to try to offer a more comprehensive accounting of the crisis:

Gross Domestic Product: The report notes the massive difference between the actual and potential GDP — now estimated at about $2.6 trillion, according to a January Congressional Budget Office report.

Unemployment: The rate peaked at 10.1 percent in October 2009, but it’s still at 8.1 percent today. That’s 12.5 million people who are out of work, not saving for retirement and not contributing to the GDP.

Government bailouts: The government has poured about $23 trillion into a host of programs and bailouts.

Lost household wealth: With home prices tanking, the report estimates a loss of $7 trillion in the real estate industry. The stock market decline has brought another $11 trillion in losses, and retirement accounts have lost $3.4 trillion.

Human suffering: It’s hard to put a dollar value on this. But the report found plenty of grim data to offer some insight: The Census Bureau’s 2010 estimate of 46.2 million people in poverty is the “largest number in the 52 years for which poverty estimates have been published.” PBS Frontline

 

PBS Frontline – Money, Power and Wallstreet part 1of 4 (2012)

PBS Frontline – Money, Power and Wallstreet prat 2 of 4 (2012)

PBS Frontline – Money Power and Wallstreet part 3 of 4 (2012)

PBS Frontline – Money, Power and Wallstreet part 4 of 4 (2012)

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Future Predictions: Welcome To Recorded Future as CEO Christohper Ahlberg Can Predict the Future Using 3 Dimensions – Time, Structure, and Metrics

Filed under: CIA, Future, Future News, Future Predictions, Futurism, Futurology, NSA, People, Think Tanks by futurepredictions — 1 Comment
November 4, 2011

About Recorded Future
Christopher Ahlberg, CEO Of Recorded Future


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Backed by Google Ventures, IA Ventures, and In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. [Via: businessinsider.com]

“Mission: Record and analyze all that is known about the future, and make it available for analysis. Recorded Future is an early stage company headquartered in the Boston area. We have 20+ employees in various corners of the globe attacking a hard problem – organize the web in a radically new and useful way. The world’s 24×7 media flow is filled with temporal signals, including reports of what’s transpired or statements of what’s expected to come. Recorded Future’s linguistic and statistical algorithms extract time-related information and through temporal reasoning we structure the unstructured. We help users understand relationships between entities and events over time. In doing so, we’ve formed the world’s first temporal analytics engine. Our customers include some of the most advanced financial institutions and leading government agencies in the world. The Recorded Future team includes computer scientists, statisticians, linguists, technical business people with deep domain expertise in areas such as intelligence and quantitative finance. A high proportion of the team holds PhDs and other advanced degrees. Team members have received numerous accolades including the Fulbright scholarship, MIT’s TR100 award, and more. Our leadership has built multiple successful analytics businesses with aggregate annual revenues in the $100′s of millions. We have a great team, a solid track recorded of success, and a great culture.”
[Via: recordedfuture.com]

Big Data for the Future: Unlocking the Predictive Power of the Web

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Future Predictions: What Would it Feel Like to be Under a Cyber Attack? Responding the DOD Has Committed $500 Million to Cybersecurity R&D

Filed under: Crime, Cyber Crime, DDOS, Future Predictions, Security, War by futurepredictions — 1 Comment
September 5, 2011

A NATIONS CRITICAL NETWORKS SHUT DOWN
BY CYBER ATTACK

What Would it Feel Like to be Under a Cyber Attack?

U.S. Military Outlines Cyber Security Strategy Book .pdf
US First Cyber Strategy Against Cyber War and Cyber Attacks in Cyberspace
BY WILLIAM LYNN III

Read the NATO CCDCOE book .pdf
STRATEGIC CYBER SECURITY

The book argues that computer security has evolved from a technical discipline to a strategic concept. The world’s growing dependence on a powerful but vulnerable Internet – combined with the disruptive capabilities of cyber attackers – now threatens national and international security.

Strategic challenges require strategic solutions. The author examines four nation-state approaches to cyber attack mitigation:
• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• Sun Tzu’s Art of War
• Cyber attack deterrence
• Cyber arms control

The four threat mitigation strategies fall into several categories. IPv6 is a technical solution. Art of War is military. The third and fourth strategies are hybrid: deterrence is a mix of military and political considerations; arms control is a political/technical approach.

The Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) is used to place the key research concepts into an influence matrix. DEMATEL analysis demonstrates that IPv6 is currently the most likely of the four examined strategies to improve a nation’s cyber defense posture.

There are two primary reasons why IPv6 scores well in this research. First, as a technology, IPv6 is more resistant to outside influence than the other proposed strategies, particularly deterrence and arms control, which should make it a more reliable investment. Second, IPv6 addresses the most significant advantage of cyber attackers today – anonymity.

Download the book as a PDF STRATEGIC CYBER SECURITY

NB! The author will give a keynote at HITB2011KUL in October 2011.

About the Author
Kenneth Geers, PhD, CISSP, is the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Cyber Subject Matter Expert. He was the first U.S. Representative to the NATO CCD COE in Tallinn, Estonia.

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