In July, we posted about the U.S. Air Force beginning research to look at blogs to help determine information credibility.
Today, news that Rutgers University has been awarded a $3 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security to lead research on “identifying patterns and relationships in public information sources to better detect possible terrorist activity.”
Rutgers will lead a consortium of industry and academic research labs that will develop the new technologies, specifically to find patterns and relationships in news stories, blogs, and other sources. They will also look for ways to rate the consistency and reliability of the sources.
Other members of the consortium include researchers from AT&T Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Texas Southern University.
Source: FCW
See Also: Rutgers News Release
This group will develop computing technologies that find patterns and relationships in data, such as news stories, open-source web logs, and other accessible information, to quickly identify emerging indicators of possible terrorist activity, and rate the consistency and reliability of the sources.
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