Information Processing Technology Office
Encyclopedia
The Information Processing Techniques Office is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
of the United States Department of Defense
whose stated mission is:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military...
of the United States Department of Defense
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whose stated mission is:
[To] create a new generation of computational and information systems that possess capabilities far beyond those of current systems. These cognitive systems - systems that know what they're doing:
- will be able to reason, using substantial amounts of appropriately represented knowledge;
- will learn from their experiences and improve their performance over time;
- will be capable of explaining themselves and taking naturally expressed direction from humans;
- will be aware of themselves and able to reflect on their own behavior;
- will be able to respond robustly to surprises, in a very general way.
IPTO Research Projects
- BICA: project to create "Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures"
- Bootstrapped Learning: a project to bring about "instructable computing" by driving the creation of machine learning algorithms that are responsive to models of human-to-human instruction
- LifeLog, an IPTO project "to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships" by creating "an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person’s experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities."
- FORESTERDARPA FORESTERThe DARPA FORESTER is a technology development program sponsored jointly by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army intended to produce an advanced airborne UHF radar system that can track personnel and vehicles on the ground when they are hidden by foliage...
: a program to develop a helicopter-borne radar system that can detect soldiers and vehicles moving underneath folliage cover - VIRATVIRATThe Video Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool program is a video surveillance project funded by the Information Processing Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ....
: analysis and storage of video surveillanceSurveillanceSurveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people. It is sometimes done in a surreptitious manner...
data - Deep GreenDeep GreenDeep Green is a project that ran under the Information Processing Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The purpose of the project was to develop a decision-making support system for United States Army commanders...
: U.S. Army battlefield decision-making support system - Heterogeneous Urban RSTA Team: aerial surveillance program designed to monitor cities with self-directed UAVsUnmanned aerial vehicleAn unmanned aerial vehicle , also known as a unmanned aircraft system , remotely piloted aircraft or unmanned aircraft, is a machine which functions either by the remote control of a navigator or pilot or autonomously, that is, as a self-directing entity...
- High Productivity Computing SystemsHigh Productivity Computing SystemsHigh Productivity Computing Systems is a DARPA project for developing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and industry in the 2002-2010 timeframe....
: project for developing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and industry in the 2007 to 2010 timeframe
External links
- Oral history interview with J. C. R. Licklider at Charles Babbage InstituteCharles Babbage InstituteThe Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history since 1935 of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking....
, University of Minnesota. Licklider was the first director of IPTO. - Oral history interview with Jack P. Ruina Charles Babbage InstituteCharles Babbage InstituteThe Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history since 1935 of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking....
- interview is mainly concerned with the beginning of the Information Processing Techniques Office within ARPA: the initial goals, how the idea of an information processing program was initiated, the selection of the first director. Ruina was Director of ARPA from 1961-1963. - Oral-history interview with Ivan Sutherland at Charles Babbage InstituteCharles Babbage InstituteThe Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history since 1935 of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking....
, University of Minnesota. Sutherland headed the IPTO in the mid-1960s and oversaw computer projects in graphics and networking, the ILLIAC IV, and the Macromodule program. - Oral history interview with Lawrence G. Roberts Charles Babbage InstituteCharles Babbage InstituteThe Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history since 1935 of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking....
, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Roberts directed IPTO during 1968-1973 - Official IPTO Homepage