October 4, 2023

By Louis DiPietro

A team of Cornell computer scientists has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, to leverage reinforcement learning to make computer networks stronger, dynamic and more secure.

The project is called LANCER (LeArning Network CybERagents), and researchers hope it will yield smarter, dynamic defenses for cybersecurity experts in the perpetual cat-and-mouse game between defenders and attackers.