EVENTS
MIT Political Science Distinguished Speaker Series:
Just make it
Distinguished speakers- Dr. Regina Dugan and Dr. Kaigham (Ken) Gabriel of DARPA
co-sponsored with PIE
Bartos Theater E15-070
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 12:00 p.m.
Dr. Regina Dugan, Director of DARPA. Appointed by Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates, and announced by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Zachary Lemnios, Dr. Regina E. Dugan was sworn in as the 19th director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on July 20, 2009. read more...
Dr. Kaigham (Ken) Gabriel, Deputy Dircector of DARPA. Dr. Gabriel most recently was the Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Akustica, a semiconductor company commercializing Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors for consumer electronics products. Akustica, based in the United States with a global supply chain and customer base, pioneered the use of digital silicon microphones and shipped more than 5 million units to the PC/notebook industry. Since founding the company in late 2001, his responsibilities focused on managing continued technology innovation, product development, manufacturing, and business execution. read more...
Formed in 1958 after the Sputnik launch, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a singular mission: to prevent and create strategic surprise. The principal agency within the Department of Defense (DoD) for research, development and demonstration of high-risk, high-payoff capabilities, DARPA has persisted as a critical-mass collection of some of the best and brightest technical visionaries for the DoD and the Nation for more than 50 years. Throughout its history, DARPA has had achievements ranging from the Internet to stealth, from GPS to MEMS, from rockets to the M-16 rifle, and from crowd sourced vehicles to plant-derived vaccines. Today, DARPA is tackling some of the most pressing and vexing challenges facing the DoD.
