New Internet-based System helps nab culprits

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A new prototype Internet-based system allows U.S. police departments to share information about a particular suspect's criminal records and crime activity across the U.S. by using an intelligence gathering tool known as "Coplink." Developed at an artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Arizona, Coplink can enable police departments to establish links quickly among their existing information files and those of other police departments, then links and compares the data found from those files by cross-referencing that information. Designed by Hsinchun Chen, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Chen says of his prototype Coplink, "It's the Google [an Internet search engine that uses words to locate related Web sites] for law enforcement. Things that a human can do intuitively we are getting the computer to do, too."

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