[infowar.de] neuer Antiterror-Browser in der Entwiclung

[Ralf Bendrath <bendrath -! - zedat - fu-berlin - de>]

Gerade erst gefunden. Bizarr.
RB

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5730176.html

CNET, 2 June 2005

UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING BROWSER TO FIGHT TERRORISM

Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) are developing browser
technology that endeavors to identify hidden connections in vast
collections of documents. Rather than simply looking for matches to
specified query terms, which is what typical search engines do, the UB
technology seeks to uncover connections between ideas. According to
John McCarthy, professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford
University, a tool that successfully links concepts could be an
important breakthrough. A number of federal agencies, including the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), are investing in the research,
which they hope can be used to find the sorts of connections that will
aid efforts to fight terrorism. The project has been used to search the
report from the 9/11 Commission as well as public Web pages, looking
for connections regarding the hijackers. The tool searches for concepts
such as names, dates, and places and maps the connections it finds,
potentially resulting in trails of evidence useful to investigators or
other authorities.


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