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Karachi
PeshawarBaghdad
Kuwait
GujaratDubai
Tehran
Where we are on the newsreader and website…
Eval:
• Good:– Rapid source addition
– Intelligent, familiar, and more helpful interface
– Identity spotting getting better
– Web searching much improved
– Addition of the World Press Update• Unexpected introduction, responding to world events
• Less good– All web-sourced, to my knowledge
• Serious copyright impediments to necessary sources **– Obvious problem. Needs a systemic solution.
– No AM, FM, or short-wave
– No languages beyond English
– No visualization in either content or location (but…)
Visualizing a firehose…• Chinese ideograms• “Spatialization” of memory• From a firehose to a river• From a river to a textured form
• EARLY EFFORT !!!
• Java applet– Very flexible, very small (94k)– Much else can be tried
• Word Frequency over time – Frequency plotted horizontally– Time flowing northward
Anthrax Group:
America, Arab, Iran, Iraq, and Laden
~8000 messages
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Anthrax Group:
America, Arab, Iran, Iraq, and Laden
Report of the National Commission on Terrorism
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America, Arab, Iran, Iraq, and Laden
• Real data• Real plot• Real-time• 15k applet
• Size• Location• Color• Texture• Offset• Shadow• Shape• Depth• Opacity…
• Next:
– Dimensions
– Search terms
– Scaling
– Geospatial
– Key
– Performance
– More…
“Our nation has been put on notice. We're not immune from attack”
President George W. Bush21 September 01
In the background…
• Biopreparat
– 45,000 employees
– “battle strains”, VECTOR
– Compound 19, Sverdlovsk, 1979
• Officially 96 victims, 71% CFR
– Resurrection Island, Aral Sea
A few on the list… • Director of Homeland Defense for the Joint Staff
• Director of Response, UN Development Programme
• Director, Collaboration-at-Sea Program: PACFLEET - PACOM
• Director, Human Rights Clinic of California (an Afghan refugee)
• Director, Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, USD
• Director, Operation Handclasp, US Joint Forces
• Director, US Central Asia Task Force, Department of State
• Director, US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA, DoS)
• Fleet Surgeon, Australian Navy
• Fleet Surgeon, Third Fleet, US Navy
• Former White House InfoSys Director
• Leader of the Afghan expat community
• Medical Planner, 1st Med Battalion, US Marines, Afghanistan
• NSA (members)
• NSF PM, White House Advisor on Information Technology
• President, Emergency Medicine Education Institute, Texas
• President, National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue
• Pubic Affairs Officer, Third Fleet, US Navy
• Public Affairs Officer for the UN World Food Program
• Queen's Advisor on Joint Service Telemedicine, Great Britain
• Vice-Admiral, Director of Naval Intelligence (N2), the Pentagon
• Vice-Admiral, Director of Warfighting Requirements for the Navy
• Vice-Admiral, Liaison - Joint Chiefs of Staff and SecState
• WHO Logistics Officer, Uzbekistan
• CEO, Acumen Fund, Rockefeller Foundation
• CEO, the Highland Group, Washington DC
• CEO, Unconventional Concepts, Eglin Air Force Base
Special Operations Center, Florida
• Chair of the International Negotiators Network, the Carter
Center, Atlanta
• Chair, Department of Medicine, Naval Medical Center,
San Diego
• Chief of the Medical Corps, US Navy
• CIA (members)
• Civil-Military Director, OCHA, UN-Geneva
• CO, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab
• CO, Naval Operational Medicine Institute
• Dean, School of International Studies, Naval PGS
• Department of Defense Office of African Affairs
• DepDirector, UNICEF
• DepDirector CDC Bioterrorism
• DIA (members)
• Director Asia Office for Military Research, Tokyo
• Director of AgroTerrorism Response, DARPA
• Director of Civil-Military Affairs, US European Command
Editor, TIDES World Press Update
250,000 in a single dayNgara, Tanzania29 April 1994
Photo: Mark Prutsalis
55,000 cholera deaths in two weeksGoma Refugee camp, Zaire, June 1994
Photo: Mark Prutsalis
Photo: Mark Prutsalis
Gujarat, India
Photo: Mark Prutsalis
Izmit, Turkey
Photo: Mark Prutsalis
Dili, East Timor
Mark Prutsalis
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