Poindexter?

[juju]

Check out this list of things the Information Awareness Office says they'd like to implement.

<ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Collaboration and sharing over TCP/IP networks across agency boundaries</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas that can be changed interactively by users</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Foreign language machine translation and speech recognition</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Biometric signatures of humans</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Real time learning, pattern matching and anomalous pattern detection</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Entity extraction from natural language text</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Human network analysis and behavior model building engines</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Event prediction and capability development model building engines</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Structured argumentation and evidential reasoning</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Business rules sub-systems for access control and process management</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Biologically inspired algorithms for agent control</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">Other aids for human cognition and human reasoning</span></li> </ul>

Some of these sound pretty far-fetched to me. What exactly is a biological algorithm? Are they really going to try to perfect speech recognition and natural language translation?