The CIA’s future information analysis technologies will make Google look like a toy. In-Q-Tel’s investments provide a glimpse of what they might do.
Tacit Knowledge Systems’ software could facilitate information sharing by scanning every agent’s outgoing e-mail, looking for clusters of words that tell the system what and who each agent seems to know. And MetaCarta can figure out where the information is about.
PiXlogic can search photos or videos for certain shapes or facial features.
Systems Research & Development’s Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness sorts through vast amounts of information to find the tiniest hints of collusion.
UCLA’s Language Weaver technology is a new approach to machine translation, based on statistical models.
Dust Networks’ smart dust sensors, dropped in enemy territory, could detect troop movements.