At DARPA’s Wait, What? Future Technology Forum

Armed With Science: There are 54 of them and DARPA calls them Risers — the next generation of smart scientists and engineers who are driven to do big things in technology. To find them, DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar asked her program managers to look for bright stars in their communities — those early in their careers, graduate students or postdocs, within five years of their final degrees. Yesterday, from among the 54, the DARPA technical team chose three to offer at the forum their visions for the future.

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