D9 World Premiere Tonight
If you work in tech, or are a fan of it, the first of the summer blockbusters is here. At 6 pm PT Tuesday, D: All Things Digital 9 kicks off, beginning three days of candid, no-holds-barred...
View ArticleDARPA's Regina Dugan on "The Nation’s Elite Army of Futuristic Techno-geeks”
Dr. Regina Dugan is director of the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, where she researches, develops and demonstrates high-risk, high-payoff projects for the current and future combat force,...
View ArticleDARPA–The Coolest Agency You've Never Heard Of: Regina Dugan at D9 (Video)
As head of the Defense Department’s best-known research branch, Regina Dugan oversees the agency’s technological engine. Its mandate: “The prevention and creation of strategic surprise.” In a Wednesday...
View ArticleDARPA's Regina Dugan Takes It to Mach 20: The Full D9 Interview (Video)
From planes that fly across the country in an hour to explosive detection based on a dog’s nose to photoluminescent polymers, I dare you not to be riveted by Regina Dugan, director of the Defense...
View ArticleDARPA: That's Mach 20, Baby
In an onstage interview at the ninth D: All Things Digital conference in June, Regina Dugan — who is director of the federal government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — riveted the crowd...
View ArticleWhat Part of an Aircraft Going Mach 20 Can You See? The Back End.
On Thursday, Aug. 11, DARPA demonstrated stable aerodynamically controlled Mach 20 flight for nearly three minutes in its attempt to fly the fastest aircraft ever flown. This feat was the result of...
View ArticleTED Tech Preview: Robots, Crowdsourcing and Bill Nye
Please excuse the #humblebrag for a second, but little old me is somehow headed to the TED Conference in Long Beach, Calif., this week, and I’ll be reporting on it here for AllThingsD. As will Kara...
View ArticleA TED View of the Future: Hypersonic Gliders, Liquid Batteries and Flying Robots
This morning, the TED conference brought researchers out of the lab to show off their latest gadgets — if you can use the word “gadget” to describe a hypersonic Mach 20 glider, autonomous and...
View ArticleDARPA's Regina Dugan Will Join Google
Regina Dugan, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is leaving to take a role at Google. We’d been working on this story independently and have confirmed it with Google; Wired has...
View ArticleIt's Time to Googorola: Acquisition Finally Closes and Google's Dennis...
At long last, Google has completed its $12.5 billion cash purchase of Motorola Mobility, eight months after the deal was announced. The acquisition had been held up by government approval processes,...
View ArticleDARPA Gets a New Top Geek
The blue-sky tech thinkers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have a new hand at the helm with the appointment of Arati Prabhakar to replace former director Regina Dugan, now with Google....
View ArticleGoogle's Page Hints at Tougher, Long-Lasting Phones From Motorola
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt was pretty hot on the new phones the company’s Motorola division is working on during his interview at D: Dive Into Mobile Tuesday. “They’re very impressive,” he said....
View ArticleWhat Assange, Slim, Kissinger and Others Told Eric Schmidt for His New Book
“It is hard to imagine de Gaulles and Churchills appealing in the world of Facebook,” said former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. “Unique leadership is a human thing, and is not going to be...
View ArticleLet the D11 Speakers Begin: Sandberg, Silbermann, Costolo, Woodside, Immelt...
One of the best parts of planning the next D: All Things Digital conference — which is in its 11th iteration this year — is trying to figure out what group of top tech and media players will make the...
View ArticleD11: Welcome to the Post-PC World, for Real This Time
One of the great pleasures of producing D is that every year the discussion is different, because the technology, Internet and media businesses are so dynamic. But, as we convene this, the 11th...
View ArticleMotorola's Dennis Woodside and Regina Dugan at D11: Making Motorola a...
Motorola has been going through a lot of changes since being swallowed up by Google. The company has exited markets, narrowed its product lines and cut thousands of jobs. But, aside from some rather...
View ArticleThe Coolest Government Job Ever
“We got to do a lot of epic shit when I was at DARPA.” – Regina Dugan, SVP of advanced tech and projects at Motorola Mobility LLC (and former DARPA chief)
View ArticleElectronic Tattoos and Passwords You Can Swallow: Google's Regina Dugan Is a...
Former DARPA head Regina Dugan now leads special projects for the Google-owned Motorola, and she claims to be very excited about wearable computers. By that she doesn’t necessarily mean something so...
View ArticleExclusive: Dennis Woodside on the Genesis of the Moto X, Ditching Tablets and...
Motorola’s phone of the future owes some of its capabilities to a high-tech watch that failed to achieve much commercial success. Speaking at D11, Motorola head Dennis Woodside confirmed the Moto X...
View ArticleKatieCam: Motorola's Regina Dugan on Dancing and Cooking (Video)
Regina Dugan, SVP at Motorola Mobility, had plenty to share today at D: All Things Digital, including electronic tattoos and swallowable “password pills.” But in this KatieCam video from after her...
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