Communications of the ACM
DARPA Thinks the Future of Surveillance Looks Like Siri
Siri's core technology was developed under a DARPA program.
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U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office director Dan Kaufman says an innovation gap exists as the private sector advances in areas in which the government was once primarily responsible for research breakthroughs. Kaufman hopes to close that gap, and notes that DARPA has made its most recent big data research effort part of the DARPA Open Catalog, which aims to open more of the agency's software and science research to the public. For example, he says improved encryption can help provide both privacy and security. "What if there was a way to collect the data but encrypt it so that people couldn't use it in a way that wasn't approved?" Kaufman asks.
In the future, spying on data will be more difficult even as data proliferates across multiple channels, says Kaufman, pointing to DARPA's PROCEED program, which successfully demonstrated fully homomorphic encryption for cloud environments, previously thought to be impossible.
DARPA also will use advanced machine learning to help the Defense Department manage threats, enabling security experts to interact with an algorithm that learns what to look for and improves results through continued interaction.
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