verabschiedet i don't think oasis paid for standing on the rostrum for "verabschiedet"; neither apple, ieee or the dvdforum for being on page one - or did they?

So short is love, and so long is forgetting," wrote Pablo Neruda in a testimony to the tenacity of emotional memories. How is it that emotions, positive and negative, strengthen memories for particular events in our lives? At the heart of emotional modulation of memory lies the amygdala, a structure activated by emotional stimuli. It is widely accepted that the basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) strengthens consolidation of emotional memories through its projections to widespread cortical area | neuroscience

at least it would explain why people, who work without emotion on the same topic for years seem not to remember a bit, while people who fall in love with a subject develope a nice repository after a while.

this work will be complete september 2010 | tangram, proposer's information packet

technews quotes an article from National Journal (10/21/06) Vol. 38, No. 42, P. 57; Harris, Shane | subscription

Terrorist Profiling, Version 2.0
The document notes that up to now the guilt-by-association model has been the primary template for the derivation of suspicion scores, and this model has had considerable success in instances where a seed entity in a unknown group is known; "However, in the absence of a known seed entity, how do we score a person if nothing is known about their associates?" It describes Tangram as a system that "takes a systematic view of the [terrorist-detection] process, applying what is now a set of disjointed, cumbersome-to-configure technologies that are difficult for nontechnical users to apply, into a self-configuring, continuously operating intelligence analysis support system."| technews

one day there was a vision darpa called total information awareness (2001) renamed 2003 in terrorism information awareness program | wiki source

Among the shortcomings of terrorist profiling the Tangram document cops to is the difficulty of tracking terrorist behaviors in a constant state of flux, and terrorism researchers' inability to "readily distinguish the absolute scale of normal behaviors" either for terrorists or innocents. |technews

called intelligence value estimation.