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Updated: September 26, 2010, 6:36 AM
Imagine using the same technology to locate a lone bomber before he  
carries out his terrorist act and to identify a troubled veteran or  
first responder ground down by tragedies and violence.

Stop imagining.

Some 120 local first responders from law enforcement and other  
agencies, the military and mental health professionals gathered Friday  
to hear firsthand about an advanced computer program that can  
accomplish those two seemingly different tasks.

The presentation was part of the International First Responder-
Military Symposium held at Hilbert College in the Town of Hamburg.

A Swiss professor working with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
scientist who heads the Mind Machine Project there outlined how this  
program operates through computerized scanning of phone calls and  
electronic messages sent through e-mail and social networking  
mechanisms.

Suppose you know there's a threat to the president when he is  
visiting, say, Texas. Through information obtained by the National  
Security Agency, we have the tools to go through huge quantities of  
data obtained from that area, said professor Mathieu Guidere of the  
University of Geneva.

How? The computer system detects resentment in conversations through  
measurements in decibels and other voice biometrics, he said. It  
detects obsessiveness with the individual going back to the same topic  
over and over, measuring crescendos.

As for written transmissions scrutinized by the computer program, it  
can detect the same patterns of fixation on specified subjects, said  
Guidere, who has worked for years screening mass data that involves  
radicalization and ideological indoctrination.

Using character traits that have been identified through psychological  
profiles conducted on lone bombers following the Sept. 11, 2001,  
terrorist attacks, Guidere said he and his colleagues developed  
programs that isolate signs pointing to a potential terrorist.

He said lone bombers, in particular, are not mentally deranged but  
harbor hatred and deep resentment toward government. Their emotional  
spikes, Guidere explained, can be identified by the computer program.

The practical side is that once the individual has been identified,  
the information can be passed along to authorities so surveillance can  
begin, he said.

Currently, the computer program can review 10,000 voice or other  
electronic transmissions in an hour. The goal, the professor said, is  
to increase the capacity to 100,000 per hour.

On the civilian side, the program can be used by psychologists and  
other mental health providers working with war veterans, law  
enforcement officials and others to measure their progress in recovery.

By recording the voice of the patient, the program can rate  
negativity and positivity with depression and other emotional  
disorders, said Guidere, who is working with Dr. Newton Howard,  
director of MIT's Mind Machine Project.