Results for “Intelligence Squared”

…ication, and recombination of sequences of nucleotides, but relies on analog computing, running on nervous systems, for intelligence and control. The genetic system in every living cell is a stored-program computer. Brains aren’t. Digital computers execute transformations betwee...

… news- paper published its first story on June 6. Greenwald then went on TV in Hong Kong, revealing to every interested intelligence service that a defector from the NSA was in Hong Kong providing secret documents. Poitras released the famous video showing Snowden and secret NSA...

crowded. I heard the first rumors from a staff officer in military intelligence, though neither he nor anyone else I asked was sure if they were true. But it seemed that the Phalangists had been sent into Sabra and Shatila. And that they had begun killing people. I'd like to thi...

…t you could lose all the money you put into it. Whereas I could go from being seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity…” “Well,” says Pierce in some dramatic understatement, “it is true that you are g...

…rker Higgins, and Asher Wolf. If anyone, including the security staff of the NSA, had been on the lookout for dissident intelligence workers, this well-advertised gathering and its organizer might have been of interest. In 2014, I asked a former top NSA executive whether such ac...

…ing a certain interval of time (whether or not this knowledge is explicitly rep- resented). Put differently: this is an intelligence’s total memory contents (inclusive of all types of memory) during an interval of time. Language Comprehension: The process of mapping natural lang...

142 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Russia by design or by accident. Whenever an intelligence worker steals sensitive compartmented information of interest to a foreign adversary and then defects to that adversary, it raises at least the specter of state-sponsored espionage. It i...

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON February 2, 2018 The Honorable Devin Nunes Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence United States Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr. Chairman: On January 29, 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (hereinaf...

…Americans. Clapper’s answer was clearly untrue, but it did not mislead Senator Wyden or any other members of the Senate Intelligence Committee; Clapper had truthfully testified in a classified session of the committee earlier that week that the NSA did collect Americans’ telephon...

…stly unused today). The Paiks of our time, of course, are now working with the Internet, digital images, and artificial intelligence. Their works and thoughts, again, are an early alarm system for the developments ahead of us. As a curator, my daily work is to bring together dif...

… “J did not betray anything. Revenge.” Ever since the Uri Ilan mission, there had been a de facto ban on cross- border intelligence operations by Israeli soldiers. Ben-Gurion and his military commanders knew, of course, the importance of getting early warning of an enemy attack....

…with which it interacts. The latter clause means that the patternist perspective is inclusive of notions of distributed intelligence [[ut96]. Basically, the mind of a system is the fuzzy set of different simplifying representations of that system that may be adopted. Intelligenc...

…protect the information. The White House review process also included input from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice. Consistent with this review and these standards, the President has determined that declassification of the Memorandu...

…bat the threat of warfare in cyberspace. The loss was considered of such importance that between 200 and 250 mil- itary intelligence officers worked day and night for the next four months, according to the DIA’s classified report, to “triage, analyze, and assess Department of Def...

130 7 A Formal Model of Intelligent Agents about the dynamics of general intelligence, which has been useful in guiding development of the ECAN component of CogPrime, and we expect will have more general value in future. Despite the intermittent use of mathematical formalism, t...