The paranoia is real

[Sprafa]

The Total Information Awareness Office

As part of the IAO's "Total Information Awareness" program, several new technologies are being researched.

Effective Affordable Reusable Speech-to-text, or EARS,has a stated goal of "developing speech-to-text (automatic transcription) technology whose output is substantially richer and much more accurate than currently possible." This program is focusing on broadcast and telephone human conversations in multiple languages, necessary for the computerized analysis of the massive amount of phone tapping the IAO now has the right to perform without a legal warrant.

utures Markets Applied to Prediction, or FutureMAP, intends to "concentrate on market-based techniques for avoiding surprise and predicting future events." It will analyze data from the world's economy in attempt to predict political instability, threats to national security, and in general every major event in the near future. The IAO's stated strategy for this division includes "the markets must also be sufficiently robust to withstand manipulation", possibly suggesting the intention of altering future events to further the goals of the United States.

Genisys is the name given to the database system which will be implented as the center of information for the IAO. Currently used database systems designed in the 1980s are insufficient for the massive amount of data to be gathered.

Genoa "provides the structured argumentation, decision-making and corporate memory to rapidly deal with and adjust to dynamic crisis management." In essence, this program is designed to make conclusions and decisions based on available information, incorporating human analysis, corporate history, and a structured set of thinking. This research project was finished in fiscal year 2002, and is being followed up by Genoa II, which effectively automates the collaboration between government departments.

Human Identification at a Distance, or HumanID, "is to develop automated biometric identification technologies to detect, recognize and identify humans at great distances." This program intends to be able to implement a face and gait identification system effective up to 150 meters at all times by fiscal year 2004. One such program, developed by Georgia Tech at a cost of nearly $1 million, identifies distinctive patterns in human walks via radar.

Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization, or TIDES, is being developed to detect, translate, summarize, and extract information in speech or text in multiple languages. Demonstration of machine capabilities and integration into Total Information Awareness systems is expected in 2003.

Wargaming the Asymmetric Environment, or WAE, is intended to develop automated technology capable of predicting terrorist attacks, identifying predictive indicators by examining individual and group behavior in broad environmental context. The WAE will also develop intervention strategies based on the motivation of specific terrorists.

just check out their logo

 

[clarky003]

and another step farther down the slippery slope to a totalitarian state.

intresting read. thanks., Some people may consider this far fetched. But as its a registered peice of info. disputing any of that maybe hard.

 

[Sprafa]

I know about it some time ago, but now DARPA is reviving the project....

 

[Korgoth]

yeah the old logo for them used to be the creepy "big brother" pyramid with an eye in it like you would find on the back of the dollar bill. kind of unsettling, no? EDIT: oops hehehe didn't see that you had posted it! Yeah that is kind of scary, I actually seen that logo used on their website several months back, since then i guess they thought it was a little to, much, so they changed it.