From: Armed With Science
by jtozer
Cyber security is a big deal. As computers become more adept, threats become more apparent and effective. Many government organizations are throwing their best and brightest at programs designed with cyber safety and security in mind.
DARPA is no different.
Last week, I told you about DARPA’s FOUR BIG THINGS that they’re working on to change the way computers think, learn, and defend themselves. In addition to that, the agency also has three big ideas in the realm of big data that augment their cyber warfare strategy.
“We’ve talked about this Internet of things,” says Dan Kaufman, Director of the Information Innovation Office for DARPA. “You cyber, and it gets everywhere. One of the powers of this is that everything is programmable, and that’s why we like it, but here’s what we don’t know. Here’s the secret. It’s not programmable by you. So, if we’re going to empower the military we have to change that dynamic.”
Basically, DARPA is saying that you should not need a PhD in computer science to program computers. Or at least, that’s what they’re hoping to achieve. They want people to be able use their own computers and have it be easy enough for anyone to program it for their own uses.
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