[Peace-discuss] Andreas Cangellaris is a disgusting human being

[Harry Mickalide]

Hey if anyone hears of him giving a talk about this, let me know so I can
organize an interruption through *STEM Strikes the War Machine*

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:37 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> You can get up a demonstration against a crackpot libertarian, but
> probably not against this.--DGUI leading $25 million effort to build
> 'smart' link for military
> Fri, 10/06/2017 - 7:00am | *Julie Wurth*
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> First came the internet.
>
> Then the "internet of things," connecting devices from coffee makers to
> washing machines with the internet and each other.
>
> Now the University of Illinois is leading a five-year, $25 million
> initiative to develop an "internet of battlefield things."
>
> The idea is to have humans and technology work together in a seamless
> network, giving soldiers a competitive edge, and keeping troops and
> civilians out of harm's way, officials said.
>
> The UI will lead the effort to develop the scientific foundations for
> battlefield analytics and services, officials said.
>
> The Alliance for IoBT Research on Evolving Intelligent Goal-driven
> Networks, funded by the Army Research Lab, includes collaborators from that
> lab, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California at Berkeley,
> University of California at Los Angeles, University of Massachusetts,
> University of Southern California and SRI International, a research
> institute created by Stanford University. The funding covers the first five
> years of a potential 10-year effort.
>
> Experts said military operations of the future will rely less on human
> soldiers and more on interconnected technology. Advances in unmanned
> systems and machine intelligence can be used to improve military
> capabilities, they said.
>
> The internet of battlefield things will connect soldiers with smart
> technology in armor, radios, weapons and other objects to give troops a
> better understanding of battlefield situations and help them assess risks,
> officials said.
>
> UI computer science Professor Tarek Abdelzaher, who will lead the
> alliance, said the collaboration between Army researchers and those in
> academia and industry will change the fundamental understanding of what's
> possible with "smart battlefield services" — networks of sensors,
> computers, data and analytics.
> Similar technology has already brought us smart homes and wearable
> devices, said Abdelzaher, who researches computing systems that interact
> with the physical world and has done commercial work on the internet of
> things. But that technology isn't directly applicable to the battlefield,
> where conditions are adversarial, he said.
>
> "Nobody is shooting at Amazon Echo," he said.
>
> Military situations require capabilities such as autonomy and resilience.
> If a group of devices or sensors are separated from their home base, they
> still have to be able to complete their mission, he said.
>
> The devices could be in everything from soldiers' helmets to their armor
> to the guns they use — "everything you can imagine," he said.
>
> "Everything on the battlefield is going to have a little bit of a brain
> and communications capability and collaborate with other entities," he said.
>
> Soldiers in battle are constantly making quick decisions in the face of
> adverse conditions that can change in an instant, so they need a continual
> flow of information to make the best decisions possible, he said.
>
> "You need to connect to the right sensors, the right cameras, the right
> devices to collect the right pieces of information," Abdelzaher said.
>
> Researchers hope to create a network of intelligent devices that adapt as
> a mission evolves, analyzing their available resources and reassembling to
> meet new requirements.
> On a rescue mission, the goal might be to find the survivors and bring
> them to a safe place. A drone or airborne robot could be sent out to try to
> find them and figure out how to extricate them safely, Abdelzaher said.
>
> The systems have to be self-aware and able to reason about goals,
> vulnerabilities and other characteristics to meet a commander's intent.
> They have to be able to counteract attacks in near real-time and provide
> stability under uncertain conditions. They must be able to fuse data from
> technology and from humans, learn from previous actions and anticipate
> future moves, to provide the most relevant information at any given time,
> experts said. And they have to understand what they can and can't do
> without human permission, Abdelzaher said.
>
> The ethical implications of autonomous machines on the battlefield are
> enormous, and one challenge for scientists is to ensure that the machines
> "know the bounds of autonomy," he said.
>
> "One of the things that is not on the menu is to build machines that can
> inflict harm or kill without humans explicitly pushing the button to do so.
> That is not part of the picture," Abdelzaher said.
>
> The technology could have commercial or civilian applications — improving
> the response after a hurricane or other disasters, for example.
>
> "Illinois is proud to lead this effort, which will not only advance
> military science, but also could lead to breakthroughs that impact many
> other fields," said Andreas Cangellaris, dean of the UI College of
> Engineering. "The excellence brought forth by this team could transform
> 21st century technology."
>
>
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