Monday, August 15, 2005

In-Q-Tel, CIA's Venture Arm, Invests in Secrets

"When inventors James MacIntyre and David Scherer founded Visual Sciences Inc. in 2000, doing work for the Central Intelligence Agency was not in their plans.
The two men had developed software that could monitor and graphically display patterns in complex information systems. A bank marketing executive using the software could determine which online customers were clicking on links to information about home equity loans, then display information about those customers."

[Washington Post]

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