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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
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darpawaitwhat | Wait, What? is a
forum on future technologies … on their potential to radically change
how we live and work, and on the
opportunities and challenges these technologies will raise within the
broadly
defined domain of national security.
Hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and
rooted
in what's already happening in
today's fastest evolving research fields, Wait, What?
is designed to be a
crucible for generating ideas that
can stretch current conceptual horizons and accelerate the development
of
novel capabilities in the years and
decades ahead.
WHO IS IT FOR?
Wait, What? is for
forward-thinking scientists, engineers and other innovators
interested in thinking interactively
about the nature and scope of future technologies, their potential
application to tomorrow's technical
and societal challenges and the quandaries those applications may
themselves
engender.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
The boundaries between scientific
and technological disciplines such as biology, engineering
and data science are fast
disappearing, and remarkable insights and capabilities are emerging at
those
turbulent, transitioning
intersections. Many innovators today are taking advantage of this rich
intellectual and
technical environment to pursue
extraordinary new opportunities. Wait, What? will
consider current and
future advances in the physical and
information sciences, engineering and mathematics through the lens of
current and future national and
global security dynamics, to reveal potentially attractive avenues of
technological pursuit and to
catalyze non-obvious synergies among participants.
WHY DARPA?
As the federal R&D agency tasked
with preventing and fomenting strategic technological
surprise, DARPA is committed to
envisioning and ultimately shaping new technological trajectories. It
does so in
part by fostering discussions among
leaders on the forward edge of change—to learn from them about emerging
technologies worthy of attention or
support, and to inspire them to consider applying their expertise to the
important and rewarding worlds of
public service and national security.
HOW WILL IT WORK?
Wait, What? will be
a fast-paced gathering at which world-renowned thinkers and
innovators from inside and outside
DARPA will offer perspectives on where today's advances are heading.
Through
a variety of channels, everyone will
be encouraged to help extend those ideas further into the future. In
addition to plenary sessions focused
on topics of broad import and interest, Wait, What?
will offer
multiple themed breakout sessions,
allowing participants to dive more deeply into particular topics. An
exhibit
area will feature displays
describing a selection of DARPA programs that reflect the breadth of the
agency's
work and range of its performers.
WATCH THE VIDEO
Videos of the general session and
breakout session presentations will be made available on this website.
Please reference the Schedule and
Breakout Session sections below.
By
CNu
at
October 21, 2015
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Labels: doesn't end well , gnurds , status-seeking , unspeakable , wikileaks wednesday
Friday, September 19, 2014
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NYTimes | A
hotel ballroom in Ellicott City, Md., seemed an unlikely setting for a
four-day competition involving ancient martial arts, Longpoint 2014.
“Fight!” the referee called out.
Axel
Pettersson, 29, raised his sword above his head and waited. When his
opponent drew near, the two exchanged a rapid set of blows. At last,
Pettersson landed a vicious cut across the torso of his opponent’s body
armor, winning the open steel longsword competition and adding another
championship to his collection.
Longpoint,
held in July, is one of several annual tournaments around the world,
manifestations of renewed interest in what enthusiasts call historical
European martial arts, or HEMA. It includes events like grappling —
similar to Greco-Roman wrestling — and several types of swordfighting.
But the focus is on the most iconic medieval weapon, forged from cold,
lustrous steel: the longsword.
“The
longsword specifically is just very accessible,” said Pettersson, a
management consultant from Gothenburg, Sweden, “because that is what the
old masters wrote about the most. It was called the ‘queen of weapons’
in the old days.”
Unlike
re-enactors or role players, who don theatrical costumes and
medieval-style armor, Longpoint competitors treat swordfighting as an
organized sport. Matches have complex rules and use a scoring system
based on ancient dueling regulations. Fighters wear modern if sometimes
improvised protective equipment, which looks like a hybrid of fencing
gear and body armor. They use steel swords with unsharpened blades and
blunt tips to prevent bouts from turning into death matches.
Skill
and technique, rather than size and strength, decide the outcomes.
Fights are fast and sometimes brutal: Essential to the art is landing a
blow while preventing an opponent’s counterstroke. Nevertheless, even
the best swordfighters earn large bruises in the ring, which they
display with flinty pride.
Longpoint
began in 2011 with 60 participants; now the largest HEMA event in North
America, it drew about 200 this year. The open steel longsword division
had 55 entrants, eight of them women.
By
CNu
at
September 19, 2014
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