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HOYT AUGUSTUS FLEMING V. CIRRUS DESIGN CORPORATION
Before Lourie, Hughes, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. V. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
Before Reyna, Taranto, and Hughes. Appeal from the Patent and Trial Appeal Board.
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Before: O'Malley, Reyna, and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
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The Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS) was first proposed in 2007 by our friends at DARPA. Not surprisingly, the system—which is a lot like... Read More »
Remember those classic movies from Hollywood -- we all have a favorite -- in which two diametrically opposed groups coming from different backgrounds and perspectives ... Read More »
Recently, the tech media reported on a new technology that was inaccurately termed a "hack-proof GPS". A better description, although perhaps less groomed... Read More »
Situational awareness, as the term implies, deals with our ability to recognize and perceive factors in our immediate environment. However, because of the cognitive... Read More »
When the boys came home from World War II, the US changed forever. An economic boom, a baby boom, new technology, new ideas, new ways of looking at the world and our... Read More »
Stanford University scientists have sparked new life into rechargeable batteries developed by Thomas Edison in the early 1900s. The nickel-ion batteries have been... Read More »
Once again, the United States can claim having the fastest supercomputer in the world. The US system, built by IBM and funded by the National Nuclear Security Agency... Read More »
Armed with a 1.8 gigapixel camera rig, A U.S. Army Hummingbird copters over Afghanistan looking for suspicious insurgent activity. On board, a robo cameraman called... Read More »
U.S. researchers at Purdue University and NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are perfecting simulations that show a nuclear weapon's... Read More »
If scientists, inventors and entrepreneurial creators of intellectual property had to visualize their idea of a Nirvana on Earth, it would probably look something... Read More »
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Aurora SterlingWhat an great model and very exciting that some of the traditional power players are taking note. It will be interesting to see how the members during the day/DARPA at night arrangement works out in those locations.
May 30, 2012
Daniel PorterA good point -- I see the ideology behind the sort of person who would participate in a hackerspace as very different from the sort of person the military is looking to align itself with...
May 30, 2012
At the turn of the century, the Institute of Medicine released a report estimating that up to 100,000 patients a year die of medical errors in the United States... Read More »
There is often considerable overlap between the needs of companies that create military systems and those that focus on commercial or “civilian”... Read More »
The world's largest passenger jet Airbus A380, launched in 2007, is now powered with a jet engine that matches its behemoth size and power. Weighing at about 617... Read More »
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars and electro-optic surveillance... Read More »
A team of Northrop Grumman Corporation engineers recently successfully demonstrated the capability of the company's Silent Watch Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR)... Read More »
Boeing and All Nippon Airways made aviation history today as a 787 Dreamliner flew for the first time powered in part by sustainable biofuels. The delivery flight... Read More »
TriQuint has signed a new R&D agreement with the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to explore and fabricate high-frequency, mixed-signal circuits for... Read More »