DARPA: Autonomous Bug-Hunting Bots Will Lead to Improved Cybersecurity

Monday, August 8, 2016 - 11:01 in Mathematics & Economics

This week, seven teams whose cyber reasoning bots played in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge proved that machines by themselves could find and fix software safety problems in a simplified version of the code used everywhere, every day. The world’s first all-machine hacking tournament wasn’t the answer to all cybersecurity problems, […]

Read the whole article on Science Blog

More from Science Blog

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net