Developments at IARPA

IARPA has some interesting projects in the pipeline:

• Video scanning: Automated Low-Level Analysis and Description of Diverse Intelligence Video (ALADDIN)
  
  
• Data mining: U.S. Intelligence Unit Aims to Build a 'Data Eye in the Sky'
  
  
• Scientific data search: U.S. Spies Want Algorithms to Spot Hot Trends
  
  
• Crowdsourcing predicting the future: Spy Agency’s Next Top Analyst: You - see also the user site
  

The Web Analytics for Security Informatics presentation in particular caught my eye. It has section titles of: "Meme analysis for emerging threat warning" and "Meme analysis for situational awareness" - and it says: "capability to detect significant, emerging “memes” at Web-scale has considerable utility".