Dark Web, a giant, searchable database at the University of Arizona's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is an attempt to uncover, cross-reference, catalogue and analyze all online terrorist-generated content on the at least 7000 to 8000 terrorist sites.

A team of computational scientists have created a new technology they are calling the "Dark Web" which aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.

The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity.

With CIA backing, a U.S. company has developed a method to parse electronic documents almost instantly and diagram all of the sentences inside, helping turn chatter into information that is relevant and usable.

The U.S. Defense Department hopes an elite group of AI scientists will develop more tools to help intelligence analysts find terrorists before they strike.

The author argues that privacy advocates are hindering development of sophisticated pattern-analysis and data mining tools for detecting terrorist networks.

The author argues that placing privacy restrictions on government use of machines for intelligence gathering is neither practical or necessary.

The U.S. government has begun a massive data-mining research program, called Total Information Awareness (TIA), that would comb through vast amounts of information--purchase records, E-mail and phone logs, travel arrangements--that people generate in their daily lives, looking for telltale patterns of terrorist activity. One data mining expert noted that the goals of the project -- spotting suspicious patterns across multiple databases while minimizing false alarms and safeguarding individual privacy -- are on a similar scale to "putting a man on the moon."

New intelligence software finds meaning in the chaos of clues scattered throughout data-saturated networks. The challenge: to unravel terrorist plots before they happen.

To harness the vast information flow generated each day, scientists are developing sophisticated software that can instantly mine streaming data, such as videos, without ever needing to archive it.