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U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project |
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by chicagobusiness.com
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21 Jul 2006
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U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project
By Lorene Yue
July 19, 2006
(Crain’s) – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s computer science department has received a three-year $2.4 million federal grant to help develop data processing technology for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The grant, issued through Homeland Security’s Institute for Discrete Services, will be used to establish the Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis Center at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The center’s goal is to develop programs to analyze and interpret vast amounts of information and data.
“In the next decade, intelligence analysts will need to monitor a huge number of interesting events and entities and formulate and evaluate hypotheses with respect to them,” Dan Roth, an associate professor of computer science and director for the new MIAS center said in a statement. “Altogether, the overarching goal is to use science and technology to reduce threats to our nation’s security by providing new knowledge and cutting edge technology.”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of four universities sharing in a total $10.2 million grant from Homeland Security. Other recipients are Rutgers University, University of Southern California and University of Pittsburgh.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will work with the University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin at Madison and Kansas State University in establishing and running the MIAS center. |
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Re: U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project |
by th0rn
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22 Jul 2006
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This is kinda spooky. So our best and brightest are developing world-class methods for filtering through my email, banking transactions, medical and library records, and message board posts to determine if I'm a "terr'ist" or not. Or an "enemy of the state" or not. So I can be thrown into a secret jail, waiting indefinitely for a secret "trial"....
Scary stuff indeed. |
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Re: U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project |
by BD
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22 Jul 2006
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized against the university-military industrial complex back in the 60s, right here in Urbana-Champaign. Where are the students today?
BD |
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Re: U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project |
by Mr Obvious
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22 Jul 2006
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The students today are products of the 70's 80's and 90's and most have lost hope
Where are the leaders from the 60's?
Restoring Hope to the Youth of the today
Where is the Love? |
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Re: U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project |
by Matt
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23 Jul 2006
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Where are the leaders of the sixty's? Well, Mr. Obvious most of them are dead from massive amounts of free unprotected love, drugs, and failing to follow up when you had the support of the masses. You taught us how to march but nothing else. You guys wanted a much needed revolution but would only take in small steps. We became frustrated with your "unwashed" leadership and we will create a new world without your tired old unsuccessful theories of superiority. Thanks for the nostalgal, but it is leadership this movement needs not fond memorys. |
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Re: U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project |
by GreenGuy
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24 Jul 2006
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"Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organized against the university-military industrial complex back in the 60s, right here in Urbana-Champaign."
Why shouldn't a federal land-grant, public university, established in part for research, and funded by the government be authorized to do research for projects that benefit the very government that established and continues to fund its very existence, regardless of what specific individuals think about the moral standing of the purpose of that research? |
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Re: U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project |
by wayward
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25 Jul 2006
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This is kinda spooky. So our best and brightest are developing world-class methods for filtering through my email, banking transactions, medical and library records, and message board posts to determine if I'm a "terr'ist" or not. Or an "enemy of the state" or not. So I can be thrown into a secret jail, waiting indefinitely for a secret "trial"....
Scary stuff indeed.
Maybe not that scary. UIUC's not really set up to do classified government research. Publishing's very important to academics, so "secret" work would put them at a significant disadvantage. Also, a lot of the CS grad students are not US citizens, and AFAIK, it'd be very difficult for them to get security clearances. (It's enough of a pain for US citizens who were born here.) So I'd suspect that they'll just be doing basic research that the government will use, but anyone will be able to read about. |
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Re: U of I gets $2.4M from Homeland Security for data project |
by th0rn
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26 Jul 2006
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they'll just be doing basic research that the government will use, but anyone will be able to read about.
I said nothing about "secret work". Your... "point", is unrelated to my post.
I said the fruit of the project will be used by the Republican Fascists to spy on all of us. They're already doing it. They just want even better analysis tools. |
