Machine learning: The good, the bad and the ugly -- GCN

While machine learning might be the enabling technology of the future, for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, it's old school. Founded in 2006 to drive research and innovation within the federal government's intelligence agencies, IARPA has been researching machine learning from the beginning. "Machine learning has been a priority research area since we were created 10 years ago," IARPA Director Jason Matheny said. "In fact, most of our first programs were in machine learning." Some of these early efforts include the Biometrics Exploitation Science and Technology program, which developed tools for facial recognition that have since been widely adopted.