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US Intelligence Crunches Metaphors To Understand Foreign Language

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, a small arm of the US intelligence community, is distributing $US20 million grants to computer scientists who can parse a language and determine a culture’s relationship with a certain concept. It’s called, The Metaphor Program.

June 12, 2010
Online

Spies Want To Stockpile Your YouTube Clips (And Scan Them For Terror Threats)

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Your YouTube videos could soon be scanned and evaluated for terror threats, thanks to a new project funded by the US intelligence community that’ll create a searchable warehouse of open-source clips.

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