Transcript iso vision
A strawman DARPA IT research strategy Victoria Stavridou Director, System Design Laboratory SRI International The need for a new IT strategy • • • • 50 years after the Turing Test was posited, computers are still idiot savants DARPA is the only agency on the planet that can change that! America will never be the same again post 911 The Quadrennial Defense Review Report and the continuing Revolution in Military Affairs • EO 13231 - Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Information Age • Current “fog” over ITO mission and programs It is time for a fresh start! A new IT strategy QDR pillars RMA QDR Initiatives Missile defense Joint operations Experiments Intelligence exploitation Info Ops Systems that Think: Truly intelligent, pervasive, hardened, computers Power projection Information exploitation Space systems Joint C4ISR A transformational capability Intelligent systems today: From the human to the machine Endowing machines with basic human abilities (vision, speech, NLP, simple reasoning) so that they can handle simple tasks and communicate with humans better Tomorrow: Systems that think The intelligence is in the coalition Higher brain functions (reasoning, inventing, collaborating, planning, learning) From computers as servants to computers as mentors Computers return the favor: they augment human intellect Extreme Teams People team with intelligent machines Improve People Machines Information Process mission effectiveness 100 fold Perform hitherto impossible missions Reduce casualties 100 fold Keeping the edge • Systems that think are critical to DARPA’s mission and the continuing RMA • An Intelligent Systems Office is needed to focus on and to realize the vision • Program portfolio needs to be well structured: – – – – foundational (eg test and measurement) infrastructure (eg picoOS, FAST, DASADA) capability oriented (eg speech recognition, infosensors) mission oriented (eg early warning) • Keep the effort in one office for critical mass, team building and crucially, for research context • Tech transfer into the military and the Information Offices ISO vision structure and goals IXO Cyberhabitats (collaborative campaign planning) TTO Deceptor IAO Infosensor (hybrid battlefield) (Early warning) A defining military mission Systems that think: Missions Paradigm Intelligent, pervasive, hardened computers Natural language, vision, speech, reasoning, coherent perception, autonomy, adaptivity, robustness Capabilities Networks (bioinspired, ad hoc), resource discovery, heterogeneous Infradynamic computing coalitions, wireless, security & privacy, fault structure management, operating systems, interoperability, embedded systems Measurement & Evaluation, dependability, ontology learning,bioinspired computing, dynamic composition, ensemble programming, s/w engineering Foundations Strawman ISO Charter Systems that think Post PC Artificial Intelligence Trusted systems Foundations Biocomputing