10 big ideas from the Pentagon lab that (really) invented the Internet

The Pentagon's DARPA scientists are working to bring to fruition innovations that could affect daily life as dramatically as the World Wide Web. Here are 10 of them.

8. The cyber-attack-resistant computer

The Pentagon battles cyber-attacks on its systems – as many as 250,000 on its classified computers last year alone. So DARPA is offering a $2 million prize for the team that can create a computer that has an automatic defensive system, “capable of reasoning about flaws, formulating patches, and deploying them on networks in real time.”

The competition, Cyber Grand Challenge, begins in June 2014. DARPA plans to announce the grand prize winner in the summer of 2016.

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