When: through May 21, 2017
Evil hackers are everywhere, and DARPA (a defense group that was one of the creators of the internet) hosted a competition in 2014 to find out if computers could essentially protect themselves from harm.
Several groups set up their computers with anti-hacking code, and then stood back and watched them get attacked by malicious software. The winner of the competition is the computer pictured here, called Mayhem. I especially liked the head hanging from the chain in the middle.
You'll notice that there's a monitor to the left - that's playing a video of the competition, which you really need to watch in order to understand why you're looking at this thing.
For the sake of human job security, I'm happy to say that Mayhem lost out to human coders later in the contest.
Verdict: Worth a few minutes of your next trip to American History.
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