Spotsylvania tech firm works on Memex project featured on ’60 Minutes’

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Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

 Powered by Max Banner Ads IST Research’s 24 employees have fairly typical backgrounds for the Fredericksburg region. They’re government contractors, retired military personnel and recent college graduates. But their work creating technology for the developing world and mining the Internet for data connections touches a wider swath of the globe. IST tackles problems such as human trafficking, Ebola and ISIS. Ryan Paterson, who founded the Spotsylvania County company in 2008, said its social mission drives his staff to keep innovating. Memex, a project on which IST is the prime subcontractor with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), was recently profiled on an episode of “60 Minutes” that aired Feb. 8. The program, which IST has worked on since last September as a program developer and analyst of data, is an innovative approach to finding human traffickers and prosecuting those organizations. Memex is a search tool that goes beyond the capabilities of Google, which searches only about 5 percent of the content on the Web, according to the episode. It searches the deep Web and shows a visual representation of where advertisements for sex traffickers are being posted. By following these people, it creates a visual representation of where human trafficking […]

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