CSE Distinguished Lecture Postcards From the Future Arati Prabhakar (Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Abstract The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) makes pivotal early investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. Please join director Arati Prabhakar for a discussion of how DARPA is shaping possible futures in areas from AI and data to biological technologies. Bio Arati Prabhakar, Ph.D., is director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Serving in this position since July 2012, she has focused the agency's efforts on rethinking complex military systems in fundamental ways; harnessing the information explosion to address national security challenges; and planting new seeds of technological surprise in fields as diverse as mathematics, synthetic biology, and neurotechnology. |