Ex-Darpa Head Regina Dugan Leaves Google for Facebook

Regina Dugan—the former head of Darpa who was running the Advanced Technologies and Projects lab at Google—has left the internet giant to take up a similar post at rival Facebook.

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Dugan will lead a new team inside the company dubbed Building 8.

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oogle takes a somewhat similar approach to research and development, and Dugan was a big part of that inside Facebook's primary rival. As the head of Google's Advanced Technologies and Projects group, or ATAP—which came to Google via its acquisition of phone maker Motorola—she oversaw the development of Project Tango (an effort to create tools for digitally capturing our surroundings and converting them into 3D virtual worlds), and Project Ara (an effort to create tools for building highly modular mobiles phones). The group has also explored projects related to biometrics and security, something that could be quite useful to Facebook.

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https://www.wired.com/2016/04/regina-dugan-leaves-google-for-facebook/

This patent looks like a blueprint for mass listening. As per Q post. !!

US Patent #20170325007

Facebook, Inc. patents

Methods and systems for providing audiovisual media items

The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for providing audiovisual media items. In one aspect, a method performed at a client device includes: (1) receiving one or more natural language inputs from a user; (2) identifying audio files by extracting one or more commands from the natural language inputs; (3) receiving one or more second natural language inputs from the user; (4) identifying visual media files by extracting one or more commands…

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with link: http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20171109ptan20170325007.php