Internet inventors continue military innovation
The research and development company BBN Technologies, which in the 1960s created the ARPANET network (a prototype of the modern Internet), continues to innovate for the benefit of the American army. Moreover, the company is doing so well that now it has become the main technology supplier for DARPA (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency).
In 2009, BBN Technologies became the property of Raytheon, today the company’s staff has grown to 800 people.
Cnet journalists visited the office and looked at some of the latest developments.
The photo shows the acoustic installation of the Boomerang III, which in real time determines the coordinates of the enemy’s firing point. This is critical information if the battle takes place on city streets and it is unknown which window the sniper just shot. The direction of hearing is difficult to determine, because the sound is reflected from the walls of the surrounding buildings.
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The Boomerang III laptop computer receives information from microphones and within a second calculates the azimuth (with an accuracy of 2.5 °), the pitch and distance (error 10%) to the sound source. This is the third generation of the device, and the first generation appeared in 2003.
Now experts of BBN Technologies are developing a mobile personal version of the device, in which the acoustic sensor can be attached on the shoulder.
Another development of BBN Technologies is a portable two-way translator from English to Pashtun and vice versa, which provides at least minimal opportunities for communication with the local population. Dictionary of 40 thousand words. The base device is a handheld computer Nexus One.
One device shows the English version of the discussion, and the second - Pashtun.
The device version for translation from English to Arabic and back contains 80 thousand words.
And another development, which is not reported any details. Multimedia Monitoring System is a system for automatically recording, indexing and monitoring multimedia news on the Internet.
In 2009, BBN Technologies became the property of Raytheon, today the company’s staff has grown to 800 people.
Cnet journalists visited the office and looked at some of the latest developments.
The photo shows the acoustic installation of the Boomerang III, which in real time determines the coordinates of the enemy’s firing point. This is critical information if the battle takes place on city streets and it is unknown which window the sniper just shot. The direction of hearing is difficult to determine, because the sound is reflected from the walls of the surrounding buildings.
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The Boomerang III laptop computer receives information from microphones and within a second calculates the azimuth (with an accuracy of 2.5 °), the pitch and distance (error 10%) to the sound source. This is the third generation of the device, and the first generation appeared in 2003.
Now experts of BBN Technologies are developing a mobile personal version of the device, in which the acoustic sensor can be attached on the shoulder.
Another development of BBN Technologies is a portable two-way translator from English to Pashtun and vice versa, which provides at least minimal opportunities for communication with the local population. Dictionary of 40 thousand words. The base device is a handheld computer Nexus One.
One device shows the English version of the discussion, and the second - Pashtun.
The device version for translation from English to Arabic and back contains 80 thousand words.
And another development, which is not reported any details. Multimedia Monitoring System is a system for automatically recording, indexing and monitoring multimedia news on the Internet.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/99815/
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