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Terrorism Underlines Importance of Data Mining Getting computers to sift through tons of informations
Terrorism Underlines Importance of Data Mining I noticed two links over on Generation 5 about the knee-jerk reaction of the population after the terrorist attacks. It seems people, and especially those in high-places, expect A.I. to be able to extract trends and patterns from activity logs. The article on NewScientists, called Intelligence Analysis Software could Predict Attacks, reveals that one company is already jumping onto this data-mining band wagon. A lot of research has already been done in extracting useful information, althought it has mostly been to extract rules describing general trends rather than odd events. The latter should be a slighlty easier task, I should have thought, as most pattern recognition algorithms can deal with this sort of thing. Computers are well suited to this, and although I completely agree that this is something necessary in an undesireable way, I expect there is a lot of money to be made here, simply due to the change of mentality of the U.S. population (a bit like the y2k consumer scare, when it was the companies that were in trouble). I'm not suggesting that this is the only motivation of this company, but it wouldn't supprise me if a lot of others followed suit. The second article over on Excite news, entitled Computer Robots Gather Intelligence, talks about extracting potential targets from satellite images. The advantage of the computer approach is its speed, as the humans take much more time to perform the same task. Some similar technology has been applied to classifying the type of wine based on high-altitude photos of vine-yards. If this is the age of information, then the next step should be to start extracting useful things from it! Cue the data-mining algorithms... | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Tuesday 09 October, 05:34 Reply