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Samuel Earp

Multisensor Sciences

Sam Earp received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. He was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at George Mason University, teaching courses in stochastic processing and communications. He has held a wide variety of technical and managerial positions in the defense industry over the last 30 years. For the last decade, Dr. Earp has been a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research projects Agency.

Sessions

4:00pm Thursday, 05/21/2009
Street Patrols in Iraq
General
 Location: Regency Ballroom
Mari Maeda (DARPA), Samuel Earp (Multisensor Sciences)
This talk describes a highly successful map-based application that is used by soldiers in Iraq for collecting and sharing information on people, places and events. The system, called TIGR - Tactical Ground Reporting System - was developed by DARPA, Pentagon's R&D agency to meet an information gap unique to counter-insurgency warfare. An overview of developmental challenges will be reviewed. Read more.