Leveraging Social Media for Early Indications and Warnings of Instability and Unres

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Fri Jun 24 04:20:33 PDT 2011


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Leveraging Social Media for Early Indications and Warnings of Instability and
Unrest

Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011

12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT / 16:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour)

The ever-increasing availability of Internet connectivity is redefining
open-source intelligence analytics. Online social media is not only
reflective of population opinions and dynamics, but may also provide public
venues to actively influence others and garner support for organized
movements. In fact, in some situations like the recent protests in the Middle
East and North Africa, top social networking sites have been shown to report
events and dissatisfaction with leadership prior to traditional news sources.
On the one hand, the rapidity of information spread renders the Internet a
valuable real-time source of intelligence on population behaviors and
sentiment. On the other hand, this rapidity is precisely the challenge with
effectively exploiting this data source.

This presentation will discuss how Lockheed Martinbs software suite, called
bWeb Information Spread Data Operations Moduleb (WISDOM), is breaking new
ground in online social media collection and analytics. WISDOMbs innovative
algorithms are integrated with, and indeed govern, existing technologies
(e.g., crawling, tagging, agents, visualizations, etc.) to provide near
real-time monitoring and analytic exploitation of the Internet as a
socio-cultural data source. With its suite of capabilities, WISDOMbs
automated collection, processing, and analytic visualizations save the
analyst time generally spent on collection so they may devote the majority of
their effort toward analysis; and discover trends, sentiment shifts, and key
influencers in online communities to alert the analyst to indications of
unrest that may lead to instability events.

	Presenter: Mike Baylor

Mike Baylor is the Human Terrain Campaign Manager for the Lockheed Martin
Integrated Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business area. Primary
responsibilities include Program Management, Leadership of Advanced Research
& Development, Functional Management, and Business Development for the Human
Terrain Campaign. Mike has over 11 years of system development, design, and
integration of complex systems for national security purposes. Education:
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Fall 1999.

	Presenter: Tina Chau

Tina Chau is an intelligence analyst for the Lockheed Martin Integrated
Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business area. Primary responsibilities
include open-source intelligence analysis, research and methodology
development in adversary behaviors, and technical lead for the Web
Information Spread Data Operations Module (WISDOM) program. Tina holds a
Master of Arts in International Relations with a specialization in Security
Studies from Boston University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in English
Literature and French from New York University.

	Moderator: Karl Sanchack

Karl Sanchack is a Principle Engineer within the Security line of Lockheed
Martinbs Information Systems & Global Solutions (IS&GS) business area. He
manages the CE&T Business Innovation Team under Dr. John Evans which includes
both internal and external research & development programs such as:
Pathfinders, Innovation Pathfinder Program, Shared Vision and Open
Innovation. Prior to this cross-corporate senior management role, he was the
program manager for the Human Terrain Pathfinder, which was based out of the
companybs flagship laboratory called the Center for Innovation. He has over
20 years of technology and leadership positions in both aerospace and
commercial contracting companies. Within the commercial field, Mr Sanchack
has been a Director of Technology and Services at GlobalEnglish Corporation
and Director of Technology at Alignmark (A Thomson Company), managing
professional services and custom engineering operations. Mr. Sanchack
received a Bachelors of Arts in Journalism from Pennsylvania State University
and a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Technology Management from the
University of Phoenix. He is also a graduate of the Lockheed Martin Program
Management Development Program (PMDP).  Attendance is free. Brought to you
through a collaboration between Lockheed Martin and the IEEE Computer
Society.

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