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INDUSTRY FOCUS With Ralph C. Jensen, Editor-in-Chief
HAow Deep is Deep Learning?
t the start of every new year, important? The day will come when cars will I get a sampling of what new drive autonomously, when security systems technologies are going to be will be able to spot or identify a terror sus- introduced. Most of the time, pect, and when applied to physical security, I’m in way over my head. situational awareness is enhanced by identi-
Sometimes I understand and relate to the so- fying anomalous events.
lution, the technology and what it all means. I met John Carter several years ago. I re- member it was during the winter, because at the end of the work day the skies were get- ting dark and I was trying to find his office in the North Dallas area. John had a very cool new technology that he wanted to show me. First, you should know that he is a rocket sci- entist and worked for NASA for a few years. I’m not a rocket scientist, never worked for NASA, and had no idea what I was getting
myself into.
It was rocket science.
I’ve kept in touch with John over the
years, and a few weeks ago I get a call to have a chat with him on the phone. We talked for 30 minutes and I found I was swimming in the deep waters of deep learning. I swam fast enough to ask for another 30 minutes. We talked again, and I was more prepared.
We’re seeing amazing advancements in Artificial Intelligence and its ability to design complex machine learning, also known as ar- tificial neural networks (ANN). Why is this
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The more I talk to John, the more I learn. As humans, we have the senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling. That activity is reported to our brain, allowing us to make decisions on how to proceed from one activity to another. ANN works simi- larly, but makes decisions based on logic and with constant evaluation.
When I asked for another 30 minutes of John’s time, I had you, the reader, in mind and asked him to share his thoughts on what I felt was a game changer. I invited John to write our cover story in this issue of Security Today, because I know he understands how leveraging AI will recognize certain condi- tions that increase a threat to a facility, and to the people inside. I’m thinking security on a K-12 campus and the valuable assets, oth- erwise known as students.
I believe you will enjoy his story, because it is a game changer.
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