Technologies Archive on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

2006 US Technology Arnold The Google Legacy 2005 US Technology CISCO CISCO Application Oriented Network One-Pager 2005 US Technology CISCO CISCO Application Oriented Network Executive IT Overview 2005 US Technology Steele GSA Roundtable on IT Innovation 2004 US Technology Anonymous Semantic Web Presentation 2004 US Technology Anonymous Semantic Web Architecture and Applications 2004 US Technology …

Testimony: White Paper for DCI John Negoponte on Leveraging OSINT to Enhance CIA/IC Mission Success

ROBERT STEELE: A large company paid me to write this in 2004, ostensibly as a white paper to be delivered to then newly-appointed DNI John Negoponte. In fairness to that company, even if they were honest on this point and not just buying my playbook, the prime contract they won with the Open Source Center …

1995 Bender (US) The Information Highway: Will Librarians Be Left by the Side of the Road?

In 1986, Project GEORGE (Smiley) in the CIA’s Office of Information Technology discovered that computers had been designed without ever talking to librarians.  There were created as unstructured bit buckets.  It turns out that in the analog period, structure and the Dewey decimal system and humanly-constructed taxonomies were vitally important if one was to archive …