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Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 1:01:24 Alex Rampell Well, you remember that, uh, DARPA pioneered this 25 years ago? 4 times in the scene
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 6:48 David Ignatius DARPA and so many other agencies have tried to sponsor good ideas, and production at scale, deployment throughout, ah, military service.
How Waymo Is Using GenAI to Build a Better Driver
- ▶ 0:45 Sarah Wang He was an early pioneer in self-driving cars, working with Toyota and Stanford on DARPA's Grand Challenge before joining Google's self-driving car project, which then evolved into Waymo.
- ▶ 1:24 David George Maybe to start, take us back to Stanford, if you will, and that was when you first started working on the DARPA project, and maybe give us a little bit of your history of how you ended up from there to here. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:22 Dmitry Dolgov That was the next big step is, ah, a number of us, ah, from the DARPA challenge competitions, ah, started the Google self-driving, ah, project.
- ▶ 14:50 David George Um, but the DARPA school of thought is, um, you know, there's sort of a rules-based approach, right?
- ▶ 27:46 David George You and I have talked a bunch about, you know, you said like, hey, going all the way back to DARPA, um, you know, it's kind of the same stuff, right?
The Future of AI Is Amazing
- ▶ 2:40 Martin Casado So when I joined Stanford to do my PhD in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA grand challenge, right?
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 2:02 Kathleen Hicks Think of DARPA funding early AI research at Stanford, the labs where Vince Cerf and Bob Kahn fathered the internet, and the grand challenges that road-tested technologies used in today's self-driving cars.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 52:39 Marc Andreessen And created the sort of modern federal funding complex of things like the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, DARPA, and so forth for funding, funding research.
a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- ▶ 36:07 Safi Bahcall So he created phase separation within the federal government, and that's, to this day, that really is the origin of the national research infrastructure of the United States, the National Science Foundation, the NIH, DARPA essentially came…
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 41:25 Chris Dixon I would say it's maybe academics, maybe, like, things like DARPA, right?
a16z Podcast | Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
- ▶ 28:11 Adrienne Mayer It makes me think about how DARPA holds contests for 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 48:38 John Hennessy I mean, if you look at the self-driving car, the tipping point was when the DARPA Grand Challenge was won, and that really was a key tipping point because it demonstrated the technology was considerable. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking
- ▶ 27:40 Jeffrey Wu Department of Defense or DARPA to create super soldiers or just more enhanced humans. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
- ▶ 33:13 Sonal Chokshi Like the DARPA.
a16z Podcast | On Corporate Venturing & Setting Up 'Innovation Outposts'
- ▶ 1:53 Sonal Chokshi The DARPA now has a thing in, I mean, they've always partnered Silicon Valley and actually funded much of the early Silicon Valley for sure, but there's now a formal organization.
a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
- ▶ 8:33 Michael Franklin Our funding comes about half from, you know, the government from NSF and DARPA and places like that, and half from, half from companies.
a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- ▶ 32:58 John Markoff Well, look at the role that DARPA's 3 times in the scene
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 17:42 Chris Dixon Back when TCPIP and all these things were, you know, DARPA funded all this stuff.
Giovanni Vigna
- ▶ 1:58 Giovanni Vigna Uh, capture the flag Defcon hacking team, uh, in history, and we recently also participate to the Autonomics Cyber Challenge, uh, put up by DARPA, and we made, you know, we made the cut, and so we received 750,000 dollars in gift money,…
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
- ▶ 38:39 Frank Chen In 2004, DARPA sponsored the very first Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert. 2 times in the scene