[IP] Big Brother
David Farber
dfarber at cs.cmu.edu
Sat Oct 6 18:59:40 PDT 2007
[1]http://www.engadget.com/
Computer and behavioral scientists at the University of Buffalo are
developing a system that will allow authorities to track faces,
voices, bodies and various other biometrical data to create a score
for how likely an individual is to commit a terrorist act. Sound like
the scariest Big Brother plot since China's [2]ID card scheme? Well,
rest assured, Winston Smith, the researchers only have your best
interests in mind. "The goal is to identify the perpetrator in a
security setting before he or she has the chance to carry out the
attack," says Venu Govindaraju, professor of computer science and
engineering at the university, who was recently awarded $800,000 by
the National Science Foundation to create such a system. "We are
developing a prototype that examines a video in a number of different
security settings, automatically producing a single, integrated score
of malfeasance likelihood," adding that the system will incorporate
machine "learning" capabilities, which will allow it to adapt over
time. "Human screeners have fatigue and bias, but the machine does not
blink," the researcher said, just before remarking that he was late
for an appointment at the Ministry of Truth.
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References
1. http://www.engadget.com/
2. http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/13/china-outdoes-itself-with-unprecedented-surveillance-initiative/
3. http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now
4. http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/
5. http://www.listbox.com/
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