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LIST 6
Information Technology and Counter Terrorism
Information Technology To Prevent Terror Attacks
Jim Hendler - professor of computer science, University of Maryland
Expertise: artificial intelligence; intelligent software agents and robotics
Hendler says:
"In the fight against terrorism, we need to shift toward preventive technologies and policies. As a key part of this shift, the U.S. intelligence community needs to make use of a number of new information technologies, including the use of intelligent software agents and the merging of artificial intelligence and high performance computing."
Credentials: chief scientist for information systems at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 2000-2001; member, U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 1998-present
Contact: 301-405-2696 (office); hendler@cs.umd.edu; or Lee Tune, 301-405-4679; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/
Face Recognition Technologies
Larry Davis - chair, department of computer science and professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland
Expertise: computer vision, including visual surveillance and monitoring applications; airborne video surveillance; audio for virtual environments
Davis says:
"Face recognition technologies still have a way to go before we will be able to rely on any of them to monitor public places and reliably identify known terrorists, without also wrongly identifying many innocent people. On the other hand, rapid progress is being made in software and hardware to allow more effective surveillance of people's movements and activities."
Credentials: former director of the university's Computer Vision Laboratory; current research includes detection and tracking of people in video, identification of people based on their gait, and realistic audio for virtual environments
Contact: 301-405-2662 (office); lsd@umiacs.umd.edu; or Lee Tune, 301-405-4679; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.umiacs.umd.edu/~lsd/
Information Technology and Language Analysis
Bonnie Dorr - professor of computer science (joint appointment in linguistics); co-directs the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory
Expertise: machine translation; interlingual representations; lexical acquisition; cross-language information retrieval; natural language generation.
Credentials: selected as an National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow (1997-1999), Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist (1996) and Sloan Fellow (1994-1996)
Contact: 301-405-6768 (office); bonnie@umiacs.umd.edu; or Lee Tune, 301-405-4679; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.umiacs.umd.edu/~bonnie/
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