These days, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is making the headlines for its Grand Challenge robotic vehicle race through the Nevada desert (check the official site for the latest results -- and congratulations to all the competitors). But as usual, DARPA is also busy funding many other projects. For example, it just awarded a $500,000 grant to two professors of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) for their research into data mining and artificial intelligence. Their project, SUBDUE, is a computer program that can find patterns in data represented as graphs. But what's more important is that this program can learn from its own discoveries. Potential applications for such a program include counter-terrorism, but also bioinformatics, web structure mining, social network analysis or seismic events analysis. Read more...
Sources: Cole Dowden, The Shorthorn, Student Newspaper of the University of Texas at Arlington, October 4, 2005; and various web sites
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