DARPA’s Dan Kaufman spoke at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum, where he championed crowdsourcing as a valuable problem-solving tool. He discussed how the agency is taking a more open approach to scientific research and moving more projects to unclassified status. “Everything we do at DARPA moves the impossible to improbable to inevitable,” he said.

After the event, Kaufman sat down for a one-on-one conversation with Intel Free Press and discussed how excessive focus on patent protection can cause decay and the need to restore the sense of wonder that sparks tech innovation.