The most interesting ATAP-related news so far this year is its director moving to Facebook.
I worked previously on an ATAP project when I was a university postdoc (much of the engineering work gets farmed out to universities and subcontractors). Eventually I began wondering why I was working fifty hours a week for Google on a postdoc salary. It's a strange arrangement to wind up in.
Very strange you were downvoted. It's Google's 'Advanced Technology and Projects' group. Incubator run by an ex-DARPA guy. Projects are given two years.
Hmm. I didn't know about her. It mentions strategic investments in INFOSEC and many of my good papers are DARPA funded. I wonder if there's a list of what hardware/software architectures were funded under her time there. It's the lower-level people that decide on the projects that I'm aware of but the Director usually sets the culture and priorities with significant effects.
I thought the most interesting news from ATAP (last year) was project Jacquard [1]. It seemed very exciting and promising, but it doesn't seem that the tech has made it to market.
I worked previously on an ATAP project when I was a university postdoc (much of the engineering work gets farmed out to universities and subcontractors). Eventually I began wondering why I was working fifty hours a week for Google on a postdoc salary. It's a strange arrangement to wind up in.