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| 2005-06-07 |
| June 7, 2005: The U.S. government is investing a lot of money to develop a search engine that will out-Google Google. The new system detects concepts, rather than just words and phrases, in online (or off-line) material (documents, email, chat room text). Actually, this is an old concept, but it requires lots of computer power to make it work. Someone noticed that the U.S. government now has access to lots and lots of computer power. Someone thought, "we-can-do-this." And it was done. Actually, many outside observers believed that it had been done years ago. Maybe it was, and this is just a new, or simply public, version. No matter. The new concept search engine (CSE) was developed for counter-terrorism work. The CSE looks for connections between two people that it would normally take a human investigator to figure out. Given the huge mass of data on the Internet (including billions of words of material captured from instant messaging, chat rooms and emails), there's no way humans could comb through it all for anything other than key words and phrases. The CSE makes sense of material, stores those interpretations and constantly compares all that it has found for connections between two or more authors, or members of the same organization (or way of thinking). CSE is expected to be a powerful tool in searching for terrorist activity on the Internet. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #14 Damn! Got the video at work. It is kick ass and is 39.5 megs! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-06-07 22:20 |
| #13 Shep--got it at home. I will look at my computer when I get there. How many megs attachment can you take? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-06-07 22:15 |
| #12 wasn't it on grouchtmedia? seems like it was - it is a kick ass video |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-07 17:06 |
| #11 Shep. Start with: http://www.militaryvideos.net/ then look at other sites.. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-06-07 16:33 |
| #10 "Semantic Forests". Google that and "Project Echelon"... |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-06-07 15:06 |
| #9 Hi guys, rare post by me i know but seein g as the subject of google was up i was wondering/asking for help.I'm absolutly deperate to get hold of an AVI or MPEG file circulated oh about 1 year ago now on the net,It was of USMC in Iraq - i'll describe, it lasted about 17 minuetes i think ,was from an HMLA or HMM squadron or something and was a compilation of real amzing footage from Iraq, set in 4 parts each set to music ,the first part being the marines deployment set to the tune california dreaming,the i think the second part was set to God Bless America (i think) sung by some guy, then parts 3 and 4 were all mainly combat footage set to some kind of 'devil' rock music.I know this must sound bizaare but after losing the video on old computer i've been googling for it for days but to no avail (prob spent about 15 hours searching in all) If anyone has the video please please message me back at jonjames2526 at hotmail dot com or just post a website where i can grab it. I know its weird me just appearing but i read everyday but am just soo busy. Picture R2D2 displaying the Hologram of a pleading princess leer to Obi one at the start of star wars but imagine im here,sorry but thats how desperate i am. Thanks for any help in advance- I think you guys would absolutly love the video ,its the best production I've ever seen - oh just a thought but it coulnt have been 'taken' off the net could it? |
| Posted by: Shep UK 2005-06-07 14:25 |
| #8 We will have to see how well this works out. Excluding some of the military and Spook programs most government software and hardware contracts are boondoggles. Could just be money down the shitter, or even a bit of psyops. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-06-07 12:24 |
| #7 LOL! Hmmmm, letn us make MuckSpeaker Day ever Febuary 29 |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-07 12:06 |
| #6 ima thiinker this muchem rhyme and reason about much ado for lacka. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-07 12:03 |
| #5 All your internets are belong to us |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2005-06-07 10:31 |
| #4 One area of intense comp sci research is semantic analysis ... i.e. being able to discern meaning and not just specific terms and phrases, which is what google does today. My guess is that the systems mentioned here not only do semantic analysis, but also keep track of the specific terminology used for concepts. Feeding both of those into social network analysis would be the ultimate goal ... not only to have the computer be able to interpret WHAT is said, but also discern who is talking to whom about those topics. |
| Posted by: rkb 2005-06-07 10:21 |
| #3 So this search engine looks for :) :( and [/satire] tags... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-06-07 10:12 |
| #2 So this search engine looks for :) :( and [/satire] tags... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-06-07 10:10 |
| #1 the gods are watching us. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-06-07 10:08 |