UD ACM Minutes for 9/25/2007

ACM with Guest Quantum Leap

Officers present (at least for a little while): Chip, Mike, Steve, Paul, Ben

Professors present: Dr. Conrad, Dr. Saunders

Steve introduced Quantum Leap (QL) as a whole at 8:05pm.

Joseph Elad (CEO) gave overview of QL

• Touched on some fields of technology and business implemented by QL
• Went over flow chart of QL areas of research and development
• Brought up idea of touring QL because it is so radical

Dave Cleaver spoke about future combat systems

• Situational awareness
• Pro-active decision support
• Intelligent sensor platform
• Demonstrator features
• Hermes: Agent-oriented Surface-oriented Architecture
• Showed demo videos of map interactions with enemies, etc.

Joseph Elad concluded the QL talk by touching on the fact that QL is not out to kill people and is in fact using its technologies for good things other than war.

Food at 8:55pm. Yum.