What if the wisdom of Web could be yours, without having to read through it one page at a time? That’s what the military wants.
DARPA [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] has hired a company to develop a reading machine to reduce the gap between the ever increasing mountain of digitized text and the intelligence community’s insatiable appetite for data input.
BBN Technologies was awarded the $29.7 million contract to develop a universal text engine capable of capturing knowledge from written matter and rendering it into a format that artificial intelligence systems (AI) and human analysts can work with.
Source: News.com
See Also: Read the BBN Technologies News Release
See Also:Read the DARPA Announcement (86 pages; PDF)
See Also: Direct to DARPA Web Site
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