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Recorded Future – CIA,Google invests into future-predicting website

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

What can Recorded Future do? Lets watch:

How does it work?

Recorded Future scans Twitter accounts, blogs, and websites to find relationships, organizations, actions and incident data related to general themes.

  • Scour the web
  • Extract, rank and organize
  • Make it accessible and useful

It features the world’s first Temporal Analytics Engine (unlike a decision engine this uses a time series analysis). A new predictive analysis tool that allows you to visualize the future, past or present.

Prices and Plans:

About Recorded Future

Recorded Future is an early stage company headquartered in the Boston area. We have 15+ employees in various corners of the globe attacking a hard problem – organize the web in a radically new and useful way. The world’s 24×7 media flow constantly talk about time, whether it is reports of what’s transpired or statements of what’s expected to come. Recorded Future’s linguistics and statistics algorithms extract time-related information and through temporal reasoning helps users understand relationships between entities and events over time, to form the world’s first temporal analytics engine. Our customers include some of the most advanced financial institutions and leading government agencies in the world.

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HP Labs thoughts on tomorrow

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Let us listen to Prith Banerjee from HP Labs:

Key things to note would that the world is changing too quickly, its more of a device oriented world moving forward, where smarter, slicker and savvy devices survive and the rest are obsolete.

[CNET]

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RCOMM 2010: Rapid Miner Conference

Friday, July 16th, 2010

RapidMiner Community Meeting And Conference – RCOMM 2010

As RapidMiner has once again proved to be the most-used open source data mining tool among the community of data analysts world-wide in a recent poll, it is now the time to give a face to that community. Therefore, Rapid-I hosts the first RapidMiner Community Meeting And Conference (RCOMM 2010) and invites users and developers of RapidMiner to take part and share their RapidMiner experiences with other members of the community. The RCOMM 2010 intends to intensify the community life and strengthen the RapidMiner network by bringing together users and developers of RapidMiner from all backgrounds, may they be scientific or commercial, from the whole variety of applications and from all grades of knowledge. A vital exchange of ideas, application reports, and scientific results will help beginners to advance and will inspire the already advanced leading them to professionalism. Users will profit from in-depth knowledge of developers, who in turn will gain from picking up requirements and ideas for further development.

The RCOMM 2010 encompasses conference talks, in which invited lecturers will discuss aspects of state-of-the-art data mining with RapidMiner. A Call-for-Papers will be issued for those who would like to present their work in that scope. Workshops will be held to give participants a hands-on experience concerning several topics regarding RapidMiner usage. Additionally, attendees of the RCOMM 2010 will also have the option to participate in several courses given by professional RapidMiner consultants in the surrounding of the user meeting.

Dates & Deadlines:
Submission Deadline:August 6, 2010
Notification of Acceptance:August 13, 2010
Camera-ready Papers:August 20, 2010
Conference: September 13 – 16, 2010

Visit Conference Home: RCOMM
Registration Link: Registration
Schedule Link: Schedule

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DARPA pushing machine learning into electronic warfare

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare (BLADE) program under DARPA is  developing algorithms and techniques to enable U.S. electronic warfare systems to learn to jam new RF threats automatically in the field, instead of waiting for technicians in laboratories to characterize new communications threats and develop countermeasures. This is a clear sign of advancing intelligent technology in electronic warfare.

[Read MilitaryAeroSpace & BLADE]

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