Autonomy, a British developer of sophisticated information retrieval software, plans to announce on Monday that it has been chosen to provide an analysis system to help the United States government track suspected terrorists. This is a John Markoff article from Monday's NYT. Autonomy is the maker of Kenjin, a now-defunct product that was basically a Windows version of the Remembrance Agent for emacs on Unix. The company won a GSA contract to support the future Department of Homeland Security. (Even agencies that don't yet exist are giving away money!) British Concern to Help US Track Terrorists |