Article: On the road from data to intelligence. (methods and systems for converting data into useful intelligence)

Most of the pieces are in place. Sensors are available which are capable of drowning a recipient in data. The sheer volume of data can cripple an intelligence system. Over 500,000 photographs were processed during Operation Desert Storm. Over its 14-year lifetime, the Pioneer Venus orbiter sent back 10 terabits (10 trillion bits) of data. Had it performed as designed, the Hubble Space Telescope was expected to produce a continuous data flow of 86 billion bits a day or more than 30 terabits a year. By the year 2000, satellites will be sending 8 terabits of raw data to earth each day.

As staggering as this is, the computing power of today's and tomorrow's parallel ...

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