India developing cognitive technology to read terrorist's mind

Bangalore, Apr 7 (PTI) In what could help building
better strategy for anti-terror mechanism in India, the
Department of Science and Technology is facilitating a group
of bright scientists to develop a complex human cognitive
technology which would allow reading the mind of a terrorist.

At the same time, scientists are also developing sensors
that would detect hidden devices.

As many as 30 groups are involved in the initiative,
part of homeland security, Secretary in the Department of
Science and Technology, T Ramasami, told PTI.

The idea is to integrate the technology and sensors to
nail down terrorists, he said.

The Department is funding the programme, which has been
taken up on a consortium model, Ramasami said, adding, he is
requesting Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to lead the
teams.

"People who understand language, linguistics and people
who look at nuclear magnetic resonance...they have come
together to really understand the human cognition associated
with the linguistic language processes in the mind," he said.

"This would really involve people from highly different
disciplines including social sciences and humanities to people
who understand physics in this mechanism."

According to Ramasami, it took one year to bring the
teams together for the job. "And what we hope to do with this
kind of activity is to really understand.....I think if it
extrapolates...we should be able to find a guy with terrorist
intent without even weapon," he said.

"We have to move into that direction".

Ramasami also said scientists are looking at developing
sensors which would detect hidden, concealed devices.

"We are trying to integrate them in fine form," he said.
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