CIA is Investing in Semantic Search

October 3, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on CIA is Investing in Semantic Search

The CIA is embracing semantic technology by investing an undisclosed, but apparently healthy, amount in semantic search technology and a technology that can turn a PC into a wireless network. In-Q-Tel is the CIA’s investment group and they are backing NetBase, developer of semantic search technology, and Connectify, developer of VPN software.

Washington Technology brought this news to our attention in their article, “CIA backs semantic search, wireless tech.” The CIA and other intelligence agencies plan to use NetBase’s technology to streamline how they search for information internally. By integrating it into existing search techniques already used by the intelligence community, a new layer of search capability has been added to access intelligence information.

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Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.