Though unconfirmed, it's likely that soldiers in Afghanistan use the software to push live video of captured jihadi suspects to the computer screens of intelligence agents stateside and are quickly sent instructions to hold a guy for interrogation or let him go.
The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.
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Below, on the battlefields of Europe, German intelligence officers made the same oath to another computer, the Enigma coding machine.
At an intelligence briefing last month, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair warned Congress that the nation's computer networks were particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
Also appearing at the inquiry Monday was a former British army intelligence officer, who alleged that the News of the World tabloid hacked his computer.
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Also Wednesday, South Korean investigators said an Internet shutdown last month one of the largest disruptions ever to hit the country's computer systems was the work of North Korea's military-intelligence agency.
Also Wednesday, South Korean investigators said that an Internet shutdown last month one of the largest disruptions ever to hit the country's computer systems had been the work of North Korea's military-intelligence agency.
Today, Katz works at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics founder and former director of the MIT Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he hoped Baxter represented a "new concept in manufacturing".
Big investments have been made in upgrading computer systems to speed up the processing of intelligence and the decisions that flow from it.
Computer surveillance occupied only the ground floor of the intelligence center.
Artificial intelligence as a branch of computer science enjoyed a surge of interest and attention in the mid-1980s and there was a corresponding surge of medical applications.
Expansions in the field of computer science have offered a glut of attempts at building such monsters, but machine intelligence has remained a holy grail.
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Fully sentient robots like Kit are still a ways off, but computer programmers are starting to make serious progress in the horrendously complex art of artificial intelligence.
The media-modeling tool was kicked into high gear two years ago when Chad Jacoby, senior manager of Nissan's Business Intelligence Unit, used years of Nissan's consumer research to build a computer model comparing the relationship of each phase of their "purchase funnel"--from awareness to purchase consideration to a transaction--to the phase before it.
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