Imagine an encyclopaedia that writes its own pages. Yes its true, Sean Colbath, a senior scientist with his team at Raytheon BBN created this system. When you surf its pages, you might feel these are written communally. But going according to stated facts these are facts, figures, events, people and information which has been concisely put up in order by computers.

It is a machine which can follow and update itself according to events and news that occurs globally. The system gathers information from 40 news websites in English, Chinese and Arabic. This will eventually start covering other news sites in all major languages of the world. This will all be linked with an existing TV broadcast monitoring network in the future.

The BBN project is the fruit of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s latest effort to build machines that read as humans do. The current prototype system is part of a nonpublic site built for intelligence agencies by Raytheon BBN in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Source: BBN Broadcast Monitoring System