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Article: Chicago moving to "smart" surveillance cameras.(AI in the news)(Brief Article)
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- AI Magazine
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- December 22, 2004
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Chicago Moving to "Smart" Surveillance Cameras. Stephen Kinzer. The New York Times. September 21, 2004 (www.nytimes.com). "A highly advanced system of video surveillance that Chicago officials plan to install by 2006 will make people here some of the most closely observed in the world. Mayor Richard M. Daley says it will also make them much safer. ... Police specialists here can already monitor live footage from about 2,000 surveillance cameras around the city, so the addition of 2S0 cameras tinder the mayor's new plan is not a great jump. The way these cameras will be used, however, is an extraordinary technological leap. Sophisticated new computer programs will ...